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Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance....

This work critically examines the thesis that public lands would be more productive if they were private, or, failing that, managed as if they were private. The author argues that there is no sense of `productivity' for which it is true that greater productivity is both desirable and a likely consequence of privatizing public lands or `marketizing'...

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The first study of Marquard von Lindau, arguably the most widely-read author in German before the Reformation. Active in the second half of the 14th century, in the generation after the Black Death, Marquard made a distinctive and critical contribution to contemporary understanding of Christ's Passion, the Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary....

English as a Vocation is a history of the most influential movement in modern        British literary criticism. F. R. Leavis and his collaborators on the Cambridge        journal Scrutiny in the 1930s to the 1950s demonstrated compelling ways of reading        modernist poetry, Shakespeare, and the 'texts' of advertising. Crucially,...