Sentences with phrase «century novels moved»

Nineteenth - century novels moved slowly.

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Fox - Genovese's historical survey is even more general, organized vaguely to move from Genesis («male and female God created them»), to a literary analysis of 19th - century novels and the turn to romantic love, to the 20th - century denouement of marriage as a personal choice.

That's the conclusion of a new study that uses a novel analytical approach to track how a plague epidemic moved across China beginning in the mid-19th century.

I've left the fourteenth century for a little while and have moved into 1885 America for a novel I'm tentatively calling The Glass House Beast.

Beautifully written, emotionally and sensually arresting — «a Persian love poem for the twenty - first century» (Books Quarterly)-- this deeply felt and moving novel explores the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, nationality, religion, and the most personal crises of faith.

Another great example is Still She Wished for Company by Margaret Irwin, a timeslip novel, which moves between the 18th century and the 1920s.

This beautifully written novel is actually five self - contained character studies moving from 19th - century France to 2027 Italy, with several stops in between.

Incorporating video shot in both a modernist dollhouse and a melting spring forest, this performance and live essay moves widely among sites and texts, ranging from Anna Kavan's slipstream novels to the nineteenth - century Caribbean and from fascist glacial cosmology to ghost ships allegedly crewed by cannibal rats.

Based on a series of 20th - century novels, this adaptation of Poldark moves at a brisk pace befitting a modern show, deftly juggling romance, action, and political maneuvering.