Conrad was born in Poland, son of a polish noble. He inherited his love for literature from his father. His father died when he was twelve. When he was 16 he abandoned Poland, occupied by the Russians, and went to Marseille. During the following 4...
The British Empire was the largest empire in history and for a time was the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery, which began with the maritime explorations of the 15th century, that sparked the era of the European...
This great age appears as a continuation of Romanticism. It was the period where the conflict between religious feeling and scientific spirtit, between mysticism and rationalism became intense and widespread...
The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. Although commonly used to refer to the period of Queen Victoria's rule between 1837 and 1901, scholars debate whether the Victorian...
The shock inflicted by 2 world wars, and the development of science. Most productions have been realistic in content and setting, with the result that more emphasis is placed on subject matter related to life, and less in plot and structure. This modern period has...
The Industrial Revolution begins in England, though the Continent will experience it some decades later. Urbanization intensifies-along with urban poverty and class dissatisfaction. In the 1830's, Thomas Carlyle will write that "the Cash Nexus" has already replaced...
The South was basically agricultural, it produced excellent garvests of cotton, tobaco and sugar, which were exported to the states of the North or Europel However, it depended on the North for the obtention of manufactures and financial and commercial services...
The United States of America was originally inhabited by Indians, but with the coming of Europeans (particularly the Spanish, French, and British) and the Africans they introduced as slaves, the continent underwent a profound transformation. The United States...
He was born in 1819 in Brooklyn. Whitman left school at 11 to work in different jobs. Office boy, for a doctor, in the printing office of a newspaper. By fifteen, his family moved...
He was born in Boston in 1809. His parents were professional actors. His father abandoned the family some months after Edgar had been born. His mother would die two years later. Poe goes under the protection of John Allan, a scottish merchant. The relationship...