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Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a ''morally vacant'' juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a ''lesion of the will''; an articulate and poised man on trial for assault who, while conducting his own defense, undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional ''alter.'' These people are not characters from a mystery ......
Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College
Richard Theodore Greener (18441922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even the first black US diplomat to a white country, serving in ......
In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our centuryboth in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand itwe can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, she ......
The news media are often presumed to be a fourth estate, or fourth branch of government, serving as a check on the other three. In Uncertain Guardians, political scientist Bartholomew Sparrow argues that this is a mistaken notion. Instead, the mediaprint, radio, and televisionaffect policy making just as other political institutions do, whether ......
This update to Peter R. Mouton's pioneering work provides bioscientists with the concepts needed in order to apply the principles and practices of unbiased stereology to research involving biological tissues.Mouton starts with a brief explanation of the history and theory of the process before defining the terms, concepts, and tools of unbiased ......
This update to Peter R. Mouton's pioneering work provides bioscientists with the concepts needed in order to apply the principles and practices of unbiased stereology to research involving biological tissues.Mouton starts with a brief explanation of the history and theory of the process before defining the terms, concepts, and tools of unbiased ......
Visions for the Education of African American Children
In her highly acclaimed work Black Children, Janice Hale argued that the difficulties many African American children have in school result from differences in learning style that are deeply rooted in African American culture. Now, in Unbank the Fire, Hale asks a new question: What sorts of extraordinary measures are needed to overcome these ......
Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as 'quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth' (Howard Nemerov), 'both artful and truthful' (Donald Justice), 'a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion' (Anthony Hecht), and 'illuminated by a language both skewed and precise' (Walker Percy). As a poet, Prunty -- who is also the founder ......
With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to the open forms of modernism.
