Professor Abrams chronicles the nineteenth century struggle for a special court to rehabilitate delinquent and dependent children and their families. The leaders were dedicated reformers- the "child savers" who sought ...

"What if the United States Senate had approved the Versailles Treaty and permitted the country to join the League of Nations that was being formed after the First World War? Would the course of history have been so altered ...

Missouri's campaigns in 1992 were the most exciting in years. Missouri citizens contributed the most money ever to their candidates, and the candidates spent almost all of it. Voter interest was high, reflected in voter ...

This book is the story of the New York Women's Trade Union League's efforts to reach New York City's working women and interest them in unionization, to create an alliance of upper-class and working-class women, and to ...

"This book is about poetry rather than theory. Shakespeare's poetry, I find, remains more relevant and more rewarding than any theory, however elaborate, as to who, if anyone, should read a text and, if so, how they should ...

This study is about the comic structure of the fabliaux. The survival of approximately 160 Old French fabliaux, some in several versions and in different manuscripts, attests to their widespread popularity in the Middle ...

Gallagher argues against an accepted notion that the works of John Milton show an inclination towards supporting biblical inerrancy and misogyny. Through careful exegesis, Gallagher proposes that Milton's theological ...

The purpose of this study is to elucidate Herbert's poetry by reference to grace and charity as two of the major themes of The Temple. These doctrines lay the foundation for an understanding of Herbert's poetic vocation, ...

Analysis of the themes in modern American drama, including traditional and modern work ethic. Greenfield challenges the notion that twentieth-century American dramatic literature is lacking in intellectual and artistic ...

Holtz transcribes and adds commentary to a manuscript containing two stories, "The Secret" and "Lily Hart" by Charlotte Brontë.

In remarkably intensified form the fortunes of Orlando Furioso repeat the history common to the group of which it is really a very uncommon member. It was immediately and indisputably the poem of its age, challenged only ...

This study, based on a comprehensive examination of a representative cross-section of the literature, attempts a fresh evaluation of the contemporary American War novel. Many of the authors discussed here have done more ...

Nicolas Guillen is generally lionized by the critics as an exponent of an exotic version of mainstream Latin American poetry, a somewhat avant-garde negroid poetry (literally, poesia negroide) He has also been claimed by ...

The newsroom environment is changing, impacting coverage of science and environmental stories. This report includes a collection of interviews with a handful of environmental journalists about their various roles within, ...

The political interests, the intellectual forces, and the attendant cultural activities associated with the project of providing Argentina with a specifically ninteenth-century Liberal identity are custumarily identified ...

This bibliography is a guide to Sidney criticism from 1941 to 1970. It consists of sections of general criticism, for biographical materials, for each of Sidney's major works, for the minor works, and final sections for ...

Foster briefly outlines the the historical tradition of the novel in Argentinian literature and focuses his study to four of its major contemporary writers. His selective survey examines the attributes that distinguish ...

An account of the Vietnamese Communist revolutionary activity in Dinh Tuong Province - Mekondeltaet in the period 1960 - 64, the book contains further aspects of psychological warfare and guerrilla activity.--books.google.com.