Through its examination of nineteenth-century American realistic novels in their cultural context, Moral Economy and American Realistic Novels argues the importance of cultural motifs - such as insanity, lack of sympathy, and attention seeking - in the representation of social reality. It also argues that the formal problems of the realistic novels are the very loci where the novelists' concern for and engagement with their social reality are manifested....

Graphic adaptations of stories by H.G. Wells.

Presents an introduction to philosophy, covering the origins of the discipline, some of the major figures of the past, and philosophical issues which still continue to be debated in the present day.