The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature by Carol Strickland

The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature by Carol Strickland

Professors, students, and anyone who loves to read will want this fascinating and attractive volume. It offers a detailed introduction, beginning with great works from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, this literary timeline gallops from Mesopotamian pictograms and Julius Caesar's "Commentaries on the Gallic" to Renaissance and Baroque masterworks by Machiavelli and Moliere, and on to modernism. Along the way, it presents the birth of the novel, Gothic chills, Thomas Paine's rabble-rousing, as well as landmark French and Russian authors, Emerson's essays. Victoriana, the Aesthetic Movement, Utopian Literature and Naturalism make their appearance, all the way up to today's Tom Stoppard and Tony Kushner.

Carol Strickland has written six books on art, architecture and literature, including The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present. This popular introduction to art history is now in its 3rd, updated edition. Her two enhanced eBooks, released by Erudition Digital, are Impressionism: A Legacy of Light and The Eagle and the Swan, a historical novel portraying the life of Empress Theodora in sixth-century Constantinople. Strickland has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and, as a cultural journalist, has contributed feature stories to The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Art in America, and MOMUS. She writes a monthly column on art and politics for www.clydefitchreport.com.

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ISBN 13	9781402748608
ISBN 10	1402748604
Title	The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature
Author	Carol Strickland
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Sterling Juvenile
Year published	2007-11-01
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.