1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466686103321

Titolo

Handbook of the American novel of the nineteenth century / / edited by Christine Gerhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-048091-3

3-11-048132-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (586 pages)

Collana

Handbooks of English and American studies ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

813.309

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Editors' Preface / Middeke, Martin / Rippl, Gabriele / Zapf, Hubert -- Contents -- Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel in the Present: An Introduction / Gerhardt, Christine -- Part I -- 1. Sentimentalism / Gerund, Katharina / Paul, Heike -- 2. Romance and Gothic / Gunzenhäuser, Randi / Laemmerhirt, Iris-Aya -- 3. Realism and Naturalism / Fluck, Winfried -- 4. Race and Citizenship / Banerjee, Mita -- 5. Media and Print Culture / Emerson, D. Berton -- 6. Transnationalism and Transculturation / Mackenthun, Gesa -- 7. Nature and Environment / Gersdorf, Catrin -- Part II -- 8. Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; or, The Transformation. An American Tale (1798) / Scheiding, Oliver -- 9. James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale (1823) / Schneck, Peter -- 10. Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (1824) / Keck, Michaela -- 11. Catharine Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827) / Bergland, Renée -- 12. Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) / Sommerfeld, Stephanie -- 13. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) / Pennell, Melissa McFarland -- 14. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) / Pease, Donald E. -- 15. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (1852) / Paul, Heike -- 16. William Wells Brown, Clotel; or the



President's Daughter (1853) / Mulvey, Christopher -- 17. John Rollin Ridge, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854) / Cortiel, Jeanne -- 18. Martin Delany, Blake; Or, the Huts of America (1859-1862) / Schoolman, Martha -- 19. Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons (1862) / Spengler, Birgit -- 20. John William De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty (1867) / Twelbeck, Kirsten -- 21. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868) / Maruo-Schröder, Nicole -- 22. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (1871) / Duquette, Elizabeth -- 23. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) / Klepper, Martin -- 24. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) / Hochbruck, Wolfgang -- 25. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) / Decker, Christof -- 26. William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) / Puskar, Jason -- 27. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) / Cain, William E. -- 28. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) / Zagarell, Sandra A. -- 29. Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) / Kanzler, Katja -- Index -- List of Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America's most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks - including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493175903321

Titolo

TERI energy & environment data diary and yearbook 2015/16 / / The Energy and Resources Institute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, India : , : The Energy and Resources Institute, , 2016

ISBN

81-7993-646-5

81-7993-591-4

Edizione

[Updated edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 pages)

Disciplina

333.790954

Soggetti

Energy industries - India

Energy industries

Energy industries - Environmental aspects - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966740003321

Autore

Gray Cheryl Williamson <1954->

Titolo

Anticorruption in transition 2 : corruption in enterprise-state interactions in Europe and Central Asia, 1999-2002 / / Cheryl Gray, Joel Hellman, Randi Ryterman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2004

ISBN

1-280-08488-X

9786610084883

1-4175-0404-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xv, 81 pages : color illustrations ; ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

HellmanJoel S

RytermanRandi

Disciplina

353.4/6

Soggetti

Political corruption - Europe, Eastern

Political corruption - Former Soviet republics

Privatization - Corrupt practices - Europe, Eastern

Privatization - Corrupt practices - Former Soviet republics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Continues the work of the same title published in 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Patterns of Corruption, 1999 and 2002 -- Chapter 3 Understanding Corruption -- Chapter 4 Summary and Conclusions: Are Changes in Corruption Sustainable? -- Annex 1 Corruption Indicators and the BEEPS -- Annex 2 Issues of Data Comparability and "Don't Know" Responses -- Annex 3 Methodology and Detailed Regression Results -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Annex Tables.

Sommario/riassunto

Controlling corruption is an essential part of good governance and poverty reduction, and it poses an enormous challenge for governments all around the world. Anticorruption in Transition 2 analyzes patterns and trends in corruption in business-government interactions in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It points to some encouraging signs that the magnitude and negative impact that corruption exerts on businesses may be declining in many countries in the region. It also



shows how some types of firms - most notably small private ones - encounter more corruption than others, and it underscores the importance of policy and institutional reforms in achieving long-term success in the fight against corruption. The longer-term sustainability of recent improvements is not certain, however, and the challenges ahead remain formidable.