Verlag:
Salem Press, Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Grey House Publishing, Amenia, NY
About this volume /Robert C. Evans --Greed : culture and literature /Richard Newhauser --Radix malorum est cupiditas : greed in the literature of late medieval England /Virginia Langum --Greed, avarice, and luxury in literature : a survey of some...
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About this volume /Robert C. Evans --Greed : culture and literature /Richard Newhauser --Radix malorum est cupiditas : greed in the literature of late medieval England /Virginia Langum --Greed, avarice, and luxury in literature : a survey of some relevant scholarship /Robert C. Evans --Curse of the fukú : predatory greed in Junot Diaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao /Vincent Walsh --Greed as a theme in Orwell's Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four /Robert C. Evans --John Sekora on greed and luxury /Kelly Snyder --Formal capacities and relational understandings : greed in literature, art, and sociology /Wendy Griswold --The legacy of legacy-hunting in Ben Jonson's Volpone /Michael W. Stamps --Early images of Scrooge and Marley : closely reading some illustrations of Charles Dicken's A Christmas carol /Jordan Bailey and Philip Joseph Trussell --Two filmed versions of Ebenezer Scrooge : Sim and Scott /Brandie B. Johnson --"Bartleby," greed, and aesthetics /John C. Havard --Mark Twain and greed /R. Kent Rasmussen --An anti-greed novel : Anthony Trollope's The way we live now /Nicolas Tredell --Greed in African slave narratives : Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon and other relevant examples /Robert C. Evans --A psychology of greed in Charlie and the chocolate factory /Steve Gronert Ellerhoff --Addicted to greed : Martin Amis's Money /Nicolas Tredell --Land ownership and agency in Mahasweta Devi's tale "Seeds" /Virginia L. Lewis. Provides a collection of essays on the topic of greed as a theme in literature This volume explores the ways greed has been used in literature, not only as a theme but also as a focus of characterization. The volume examines the ways greed has appeared as a concern in literature from many different times and cultures
