1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787748503321

Titolo

Voters' veto : the 2002 election in New Zealand and the consolidation of minority government / / edited by Jack Vowles [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland : , : Auckland University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-86940-714-8

1-77558-686-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

VowlesJack <1950->

Disciplina

324.99304

Soggetti

Elections - New Zealand

Coalition governments - New Zealand

New Zealand Politics and government 1972-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Polls that Count: From One Election to the Next; 2. What Happened at the 2002 Election?; 3 Estimating Change During the Campaign; 4 The Campaign on Television; 5 Strategic Voting; 6 Who Stood for Office, and Why?; 7 Political Parties and Voter Mobilisation; 8 Patterns of Public Opinion; 9 A Vote for Coalition Government?; 10 The 2002 Election in Comparative Context; 11 Political Leadership, Representation and Trust; 12 Conclusion; Appendix 1: The 2002 New Zealand Election Study; Appendix 2: Methodology: Statistical Methods and Variable Coding

Appendix 3: Chapter Appendices; Appendix 4: The Questionnaires; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Studies the 2002 New Zealand election campaign including candidates, media, issues, leaders, electoral system and social background.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963102903321

Titolo

Roman holidays : American writers and artists in nineteenth-century Italy / / edited by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2002

ISBN

9781587294044

1587294044

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinRobert K. <1941->

PersonLeland S

Disciplina

810.9/003

810.9003

Soggetti

American literature - Italian influences

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Americans - Italy - History - 19th century

Authors, American - 19th century

Artists - United States

Italy Description and travel

Rome (Italy) In literature

Rome (Italy) In art

Italy In literature

Italy In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: RICHARD H. MILLINGTON 9 -- Where Is Hawthorne's Rome? -- The Marble Faun and the Cultural Space of Middle-Class Leisure -- ROBERT K. MARTIN 28 -- "An Awful Freedom": -- Hawthorne and the Anxieties of the Carnival -- KRISTIE HAMILTON 41 -- Fauns and Mohicans: -- Narratives of Extinction and Hawthorne's Aesthetic of Modernity -- NANCY PROCTOR 60 -- The Purloined Studio: -- The Woman Sculptor as Phallic Ghost in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun -- JOHN CARLOS ROWE 73 -- Hawthorne's Ghost in James's Italy: -- Sculptural Form, Romantic Narrative, and the Function



of Sexuality -- in The Marble Faun, "Adina," and William Wetmore Story and His Friends -- LELAND S. PERSON 107 -- Falling into Heterosexuality: -- Sculpting Male Bodies in The Marble Faun and Roderick Hudson -- PRISCILLA L. WALTON 140 -- Roman Springs and Roman Fevers: -- James, Gender, and Transnational Dis-ease -- ADAM PARKES 159 -- Henry James's Italian Hours and the "Ruskinian Contagion" -- BRIGITTE BAILEY I75 -- Fuller, Hawthorne, and Imagining Urban Spaces in Rome -- SUSAN M. GRIFFIN 191 -- The Black Robe of Romance: -- Hawthorne's Shadow and Howells's Italian Priest -- ROBERT MILDER 206 -- "The Connecting Link of Centuries": -- Melville, Rome, and the Mediterranean, 1 8S , 6 8S 7 -- ROBERT S. LEVINE 226 -- Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome.

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidays explores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome.