Author: David Dowling
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298341
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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In the 1840s and 1850s, as the market revolution swept the United States, the world of literature confronted for the first time the gaudy glare of commercial culture. Amid growing technological sophistication and growing artistic rejection of the soullessness of materialism, authorship passed from an era of patronage and entered the clamoring free market. In this setting, romantic notions of what it meant to be an author came under attack, and authors became professionals. In lively and provocative writing, David Dowling moves beyond a study of the emotional toll that this crisis in self-definition had on writers to examine how three sets of authors—in pairings of men and women: Harriet Wilson and Henry David Thoreau, Fanny Fern and Walt Whitman, and Rebecca Harding Davis and Herman Melville—engaged with and transformed the book market. What were their critiques of the capitalism that was transforming the world around them? How did they respond to the changing marketplace that came to define their very success as authors? How was the role of women influenced by these conditions? Capital Letters concludes with a fascinating and daring transhistorical comparison of how two superstar authors—Herman Melville in the nineteenth century and Stephen King today—have negotiated the shifting terrain of the literary marketplace. The result is an important contribution to our understanding of print culture and literary work.
Author: Brian J. Jones
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319911805
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Embarking from a model of social capital hinging upon four social structures—work, family, social networks, and voluntary associations—Brian Jones empirically examines the widespread claims that American society is becoming less sociable, trusting, and cooperative. Breaking down datasets drawn from the General Social Survey (conducted 27 times from 1972 to 2008), Social Capital in American Life depicts the social values drawn from the four established social structures, as well as their interrelationships, their determinants, and ultimately their social capital, through a series of statistical and econometric methods. This rigorous, empirically driven analysis reveals how American society both confirms and repudiates fears about decreased cooperation given different cases and parameters.
Author: Shekhar Chauhan
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832554172
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The continuous growth of older populations, as a consequence of demographic changes, is a huge global challenge. The growing proportion of older adults not only burdens the healthcare system, specifically, in developing countries but also posits a challenge at the household level, specifically, in nuclear and one-person households. For societies as a whole to avoid costly and negative effects, it is crucial to increase their knowledge of how to promote good health among older adults, so that they can live longer and enjoy a better quality of life. Active aging is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation, and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. An active and healthy life has remained one of the most important aspirations for all people, both young and older adults alike. This ambition has become a genuine possibility for many due to a rising life expectancy among people of diverse attributes across the world. While celebrating longer life and more financial security in later life than ever before, we need to challenge how these aspirations can be sustained, through our own behavioral responses and through public policy, institutional reforms, and innovations. The challenge is to identify, recommend, and promote strategies and interventions that stimulate and sustain the activity, independence, and health of people of all ages, especially older adults, and, in the process, promote the well-being and quality of life of people and make public welfare systems more sustainable.
Author: United States. Internal Revenue Service
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of April 1 ... with ancillaries.
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160884245
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.
Author: Office of The Federal Register
Publisher: IntraWEB, LLC and Claitor's Law Publishing
ISBN: 1640243410
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1107
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Author: Nathan Bailey
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Category : German language
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Author: United States. Internal Revenue Service
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Category : Internal revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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Languages : en
Pages : 790
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