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In this study, Donoghue argues that texts should be read closely and imaginatively, as opposed to merely or mistakenly theorizing about them. He shows what serious reading entails in discussing texts that range from Shakespeare's plays to a novel by Cormac McCarthy.

The first English hospitals appeared soon after the Norman Conquest. By the year 1300 they numbered over 500, caring for the sick at every level of society. This text traces their origin and follows their development through the crisis periods of the Black Death and the Reformation.

The Italian statesman and political theorist, Niccolo Machiavelli, wrote not only political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables and letters that are seemingly lighthearted. The contributors to this volume explore the meanings of Machiavelli's literary works, the light as well as the dark.

For every issue that arises on the legislative agenda, each member of Congress must take two decisions: what position to take and how active to be. This study develops a theory to account for varying levels of participation across members and issues, within House and Senate.

Drawing on postmodernist scepticism about what we know and how we know it and on recent developments in the philosophy of science and feminist theory, this book offers a new perspective on the meaning of gender, one that is not determined by the traditional focus on male-female differences.

The book begins in 1859, when Ruskin is tutoring Rose La Touche, a girl of ten, with whom he slowly falls in love. Hilton recounts how this relationship developed into one of the saddest love affairs of literary history, ending in tragedy in 1875. Thereafter, says Hilton, Ruskin' s life was punctuated by bouts of insanity and despair.

This work traces the evolution of the state of Colorado during its formative years from 1860 to 1940. It chronicles its changing cultural landscapes and connections to a larger America, and shows that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment.

This is the 102nd volume in the "Yale French Studies" series. Focusing on the subject of "Belgian Memories", it features three sections containing essays on topics such as "What, if anything, is a Belgian?" and "Family Secrets and Social Memory in 'Les Aventures de Tintin'".

Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His "Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music", published in 1581 or 1582 and here translated into English, was among the most influential music treatises of his era.

A critical examination of the major existing philosophical and constitutional theories on affirmative action in the United States. The book elaborates a theory that strongly defends the justice of affirmative action from the standpoint of both philosophy and constitutional law.

Stricken with guilt and grief when his father, mother and brother died in quick succession, Eugene O'Neill mourned deeply for two decades. This critical biography presents an understanding of O'Neill's life, work and slow grieving.

A thematic discussion of Russian history during the reign of Peter The Great. It covers Russia's foreign policy, the army and navy, economy, society, the arts and religion, and explores the experience of women, and the life of the court. Although this is not a biography of Peter the Great it recounts the events which shaped his early life.

This study of the experience of Jews in Weimar Germany after World War I suggests that the Jewish population became increasingly aware of its own identity, and created new forms of German-Jewish culture in literature, music, fine arts, education and scholarship.

In this study, the author reviews and reorganizes data about Freud's development and life circumstances to provide a psychodynamic interpretation of his rejection of God. She contends that Freud's early life made it impossible for him to believe in a provident and caring divine being.

A social and cultural history of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in the United States from 1890 to 1945. The book examines the three groups of women involved with the issue: the evangelical reformers, the new generation of social workers and the unmarried mothers themselves.

This text tells how opera, steeped in European aristocratic tradition, was transplanted into the democratic cultural enviroment of America. It includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences and theatres throughout the country from 1735 to the present day.