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Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James
It is a familiar storyline in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about ......
The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own interpretation of the story in the first century of the ......
The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, oneof the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in orderto reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historicalcritique. Works of modern literature are commonlytheorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history.In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over ......
In the pivotal poem 'Marking Time,' which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkinss fourth collection of poetry, the speaker reflects on the death of a sibling and how time is marked by our memories. These memories, these momentswhether spent contemplating a painting by Vermeer or the simple toss of a bean bagultimately shape who we ......
In 1985 Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. Now, after ten years of further research and writing, Reinhold Mueller completes the work that he and the late Frederic Lane began. The history of money and banking ......
We have learned not to take food seriously: we eat as much as we want of what we want when we want it, and we seldom think about the health and environmental consequences of our choices. But the fact is that every choice we make has an impact on our health and on the environment. In The Vegetarian Imperative, Anand M. Saxena, a scientist and ......
The Urban Caribbean studies urbanization in five countries--Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica--during the 1980s and 1990s when the region's economy shifted from one heavily dependent on imports to one directed more to producing exports. This shift caused producers and entrepreneurs to rely more on microenterprises, ......
The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur ......
