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Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a subgenre of fiction. Machann argues instead for considering these autobiographies intertextually and as a historically defined genre that can profitably be studied as nonfiction and as a referential art.

Brings the critical understanding of George Bernard Shaw's work into the present day. J. Ellen Gainor introduces previously unexamined reviews and articles by Shaw's female contemporaries - and discovers among them a remarkable resistance to his depictions of women.

Collects outstanding papers in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences that have been organized by the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. Essays cover topics such as medicine, geology, paleontology, botany, forestry, zoology, art, literature, linguistics, economics, geography, history, and political science.

Examines the impact of an institution on a people. In 1790 few New Englanders had ever seen a hospital. By 1833, when the Worcester State Asylum opened, the institution had become a New England tradition. In this book, Leonard K. Eaton places this early development of American hospitals in its cultural perspective.

Fourteen internationally known scholars examine such topics as education, philosophy, scientific method, historical relativism, cosmography, literary genres, everyday life, medicine, and mythology and detect a series of crises that acted to bring about the decline of humanism and the end of the French Renaissance.

Offers a detailed study of important elements of East Christian and Roman art. In particular, there are studies of two miniatures from a manuscript of St. John of Climacus and eight from a manuscript of the Gospels, as well as the painted covers of the Washington Manuscript of the Gospels, and extensive illustrations.

Presents the third part of Palestrina's Choralis Constantinus - part of the Golden Age of the Palestrina period - in a modern edition.

Solemnly or frivolously, the men and women of Donne's poetry argue the question: What are we to do? Should we weep? Should we make love? Donne's poetry is a poetry of argument - a fact that has been noted by other critics. The brilliance of Cathcart's study lies in its identification and close analysis of the particular kind of argument encountered in the poetry.

Who decides what movies we should see? In some of the America's largest cities motion pictures are screened by review boards meeting in secret. Their files are seldom open to inspection, and they often wield a nearly absolute power over what the public is shown. This is the story of motion-picture censorship in America.

Looks at the relation of motor fuel characteristics to engine performance. In order to give satisfactory engine performance a motor fuel must have adequate partial volatility to enable the motor to be started and operated at the lowest temperatures found in the manifold.

Presents an objective picture of Michigan's revenue system, its public expenditures, and its economy. This volume also points up the system's deficiencies and to explore alternative means of eliminating or ameliorating them.

The papyri that appear in this volume form a part of the collection of documents from the grapheion or records office of Tebtunis. These texts have been selected because they present an interesting picture of the operation of the grapheion of Tebtunis.

A manuscript copy of "Le Roman de vrai amour"", a poem that had been mentioned in scholarly literature but thought to be lost, was discovered in Cornell University Library's archives in 1938. This copy, made in Friburg, Sweden in the early fifteenth century, contains a second poem, "Le Pleur de sainte ame"", originally thought to be a continuation of "Le Roman de vrai amour"".

Russia in the 1840s seethed with intellectual radicalism. Pavel V. Annenkov was an intimate friend of the radical intellectuals and the foremost literary figures of the day. In his memoirs, Annenkov gives penetrating insights into the nature of this "extraordinary decade", the 1840s, and personal portraits of the many famous men who made it extraordinary.

Features a collection of papers originally published between November 10, 1928, and April 9, 1932, and edited by Eugene S. McCartney. Most, but not all, of the contributors were members of the faculties or graduates of the University of Michigan who published on their findings while examining fossils and fossilized remains. Many of the articles discuss findings from the state of Michigan.

An in-depth study of an important African American resort town and the intersections among race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historic preservation in the United States

Features stories that center around often hardscrabble small-town life in one rural community. Like any other place, it's a community, where both the banal and the improbable coalesce, a place with its share of common tragedies and uncommon madmen, some of whom howl at the moon, and others who turn out to be heroes.

Investigates recent German and American texts in relation to contemporary critical theory. Focusing on the work Kathy Acker, Frank Chin, Caryl Churchill, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Richard Foreman, Elaine Jackson, Cherrie Moraga, and Wallace Shawn, the book explains how these nontraditionalists challenge the presumptions of traditional dramatic writing.

In the broadest sense, The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia is a study of social change and of anticipating future social change. It examines the effects on the current and future elderly of the rapid demographic transition that has occurred over much of Asia, accompanied in many countries by equally dramatic social and economic transformations.

In exploring the microfoundations of economic growth, the contributors to this volume focus on three subjects that were of profound interest to the great Austrian and Harvard economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter: innovation, technological change, and economic growth.

Carefully reconstructs two sets of reliable industrial production indices. Kang Chao also lays out the statistical procedures necessary to construct new indices that reflect fundamental economic facts in contrast to official statistics. His approach represents an excellent model for others to follow in index-making for countries with limited output statistics and production cost data.

The French language was marked by significant shifts during the sixteenth century that would settle into more standardized usage thereafter. The purpose of this volume, a comparative grammar, is to discern transitions in modal syntax and to formulate the rules that governed it during that time.