Oxford University Press

Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century fills a long overdue need for a re-evaluation of this classic text. In this collection of new essays prominent scholars address the timely questions which Middlemarch poses today, and they prepare the ground for the ongoing reconsideration of a great novel....

This new reading of Irish literature identifies, for the first time, the formative influence of music in Irish writing over the past 200 years. Although this influence has long been acknowledged in studies of Shaw and Joyce, White explores music as an abiding preoccupation in the work of Moore, Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Friel, and Heaney....

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The growth of shareholder value has been a major change in Western economies since        the 1980s. This growth has reignited debates concerning relations between investors        and managers. This book argues that investors are more than passive providers of        finance, on whose behalf managers seek to maximize shareholder returns....

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