English literature : eighteenth century

Duration: 0:14:00

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Through literary discussions in an eighteenth-century London coffee house reveals trends in literature of the time, illustrating the neo-classicism of the 1700's and the shift toward sentiment and romanticism in the latter half of the century, with excerpts from writings of Addison, Steele, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Fielding, Goldsmith, and others.

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