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The Burdens of Intimacy
Why does passion bewilder and torment so many Victorian protagonists? And why do so many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their deaths? In this original study, Christopher Lane shows why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy. Examining works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that were undermining the utilitarian ethos of the Victorian age. Lane discredits the conservative notion that Victorian literature expresses only a demand for repression and moral restraint. But he also refutes historicist and Foucauldian approaches, arguing that they dismiss the very idea of repression and end up denouncing psychoanalysis as complicit in various kinds of oppression. These approaches, Lane argues, reduce Victorian literature to a drama about politics, power, and the ego. Striving instead to reinvigorate discussions of fantasy and the unconscious, Lane offers a clear, often startling account of writers who grapple with the genuine complexities of love, desire, and friendship.
The Diplomatic Kidnappings
The recent series of diplomatic kidnappings has produced some serious thinking not only in Washington but in most of the foreign offices and embassies throughout the diplomatic world. The kidnappings-and how to deal with them-have been the subject of Congressional committee hearings, State Department deliberations, and international debate and action by the Organization of American States. It is the purpose of this study to analyze them within the context of urban guerilla terrorism, international legal norms, and world diplomatic practice. Selected examples of diplomatic kidnappings, particularly those in Latin America and Canada, strikingly illustrate the new revolutionary strategy of util...
Professionally Speaking
Abstract: An informative guide for professionals provides authoritative, practical information and guidelines to assist the understanding and improvement of effective public speaking. Topics include the responsibility of effective public communication; the fears, myths, risks, control, and mutual benefits of public communication; guidelines for preparing a public talk; analysis of public communication situations; delivering a crafted, well-informed public message; and preparing for question-answer sessions and responses to the media concerning a public talk. (wz).
Das Heidenkind
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The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans: Pennsylvania: Carlisle-Hanover
A catalog of artists/printers and printing places for the birth and baptismal certificates used by the Pennsylvania Germans. Family names given on the certificates are indexed.
Linage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (revised)
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
Special Report
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