Transatlantic consumptions: disease, fame and literary nationalisms in the Davidson sisters, Southey, and Poe.

This article supplements Lawlor’s Consumption and Literature by demonstrating the complex relationships between disease and literature. Lawlor shows how the consumptive American poetesses, sisters Margaret and Lucretia Davidson, became famous for their consumptive condition and early deaths on both sides of the Atlantic, and were feted as such by prominent (mostly male) literary figures like British Poet Laureate Robert Southey and the Americans Washington Irving and Samuel Finley Breeze Morse. Edgar Allan Poe took the opportunity to convert the issue of American critics fawning over Southey’s praise from the literary motherland of Britain, into a critical space for distinctively American criticism, as dictated by himself. Poe observed that the actual quality of the Davidson sisters’ poetry was poor and that critics both British and American were seduced by the image (highly popular at the time) of consumptive femininity, poetic or not. Poe, perhaps unusually for the period, argued that a distinction should be made between text and biographical context. Lawlor suggests that the literary disease consumption became a lever for Poe to intervene in the national politics of literary criticism at a time when America was attempting to establish a distinctive national and literary-critical identity for itself

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Graham\u27s Pebbling Conjecture Holds for the Product of a Graph and a Sufficiently Large Complete Graph

For connected graphs $G$ and $H$, Graham conjectured that $\pi(G\square H)\leq\pi(G)\pi(H)$ where $\pi(G), \pi(H)$, and $\pi(G\square H)$ are the pebbling numbers of $G$, $H$, and the Cartesian product $G\square H$, respectively. In this paper, we show that the inequality holds when $H$ is a complete graph of sufficiently large order in terms of graph parameters of $G$

Prejudice, Politics, and Proof

In the last fifteen years there has been a great resurgence of interest in fundamental theoretical analysis of the nature of factual proof in litigation. Many serious scholars, both in the law school world and outside it, have turned their energies in this direction. William L. Twining, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, has been a major figure in this growing movement. He recently published a painstaking and scholarly study of Bentham\u27s and Wigmore\u27s theories of evidence, inference, and proof in adjudication. This book is part of Twining\u27s broader, long-term effort to develop a general theoretical framework for the analysis of evidence and proof. Professor Kenneth W. Graham, Jr., recently published a vile review of this book in the Michigan Law Review. Graham\u27s attack on Twining\u27s effort is not the usual trashing sometimes found in law reviews. He does not claim that Twining\u27s book is poor scholarship. Graham does make it plain that he does not like either Twining or his book and he does his damnedest to make his readers share his sentiments. Graham is entitled to dislike any book or person he pleases, but the polemics in his review are both thoughtless and offensive

High Inflation and the Nominal Anchors of an Open Economy

A high inflation process is usually due to a real imbalance and cannot be cured without a correction of real furamenta1s. Yet it can be characterized as a quasi-stable nominal process which gets divorced from the real system in what Patinkin could call a valid classical dichotomy. This paper extends the existing seignorage model approach to multiple inflationary equilibria by rationalizing a high inflation equilibrium as well as its stability as the outcomes of sub-optimization by a 'soft' government. It considers the advantages as well as the weaknesses of using the exchange rate as the key nominal anchor in the various stages of stabilization to low (or zero) inflation. Finally the rationale for using multiple nominal anchors is also discussed. Applications of the theoretical arguments are illustrated from recent high inflation and stabilization experience.

Martha Graham, Professor Miller and the Work for HIre Doctrine

The current work for hire doctrine, as embodied by 17 U.S.C. Sections 101 and 201 and interpreted by the judiciary, provides a default rule of copyright ownership in favor of employers where a work is created by an employee in the scope of employment. In the absence of a written agreement, a finding that an engagement is a work for hire under the statute automatically results in all ownership being vested in the employer. This result often contradicts business norms and the understanding of one or both of the parties. In this Article, I advocate abolishing the all-or-nothing concept of ownership in favor of a more particularized analysis that emphasizes the expectations of the parties. This would involve first reversing the current, pro-employer statutory presumption and then analyzing whether, and to what extent, the employer may have a license to the wor

Martha Graham, Professor Miller and the Work For Hire Doctrine: Undoing the Judicial Bind Created by the Legislature

The current work for hire doctrine, as embodied by 17 U.S.C. Sections 101 and 201 and interpreted by the judiciary, provides a default rule of copyright ownership in favor of employers where a work is created by an employee in the scope of employment. In the absence of a written agreement, a finding that an engagement is a work for hire under the statute automatically results in all ownership being vested in the employer. This result often contradicts business norms and the understanding of one or both of the parties. In this Article, the author advocates abolishing the all-or-nothing concept of ownership in favor of a more particularized analysis that emphasizes the expectations of the parties. This would involve first reversing the current, pro-employer statutory presumption and then analyzing whether, and to what extent, the employer may have a license to the work

"A journal among them" : colonial discourse and the creation of an imaginary community in the Graham's Town Journal, 1831-36

Bibliography: pages 183-187.This dissertation is a study of the discourse of the Graham's Town Journal in the years 1831 to 1836. An example of early Cape journalism, the Journal was established in the eastern Cape by L.H. Meurant, and owned and operated soon thereafter by R. Godlonton. The Journal was a means to represent and order a changing colonial world for an emerging middle-class merchant elite during the period of the emergence of colonial order in the eastern Cape. Through investigation of the major themes of the newspaper's discourse in this early period of its history, the dissertation highlights the imaginary sense of community and corresponding body of colonial knowledge that evolved on a weekly basis in its pages, and by which its readers projected their dreams and aspirations as to how the eastern Cape should be colonized