Review of George Eliot (Marian Evans): a Literary Life

Many publishers run series of \u27introductions\u27 to English literature - handy roll-calls of the canon, beginning with Chaucer and ending with Virginia Woolf or thereabouts - and inevitably George Eliot has to be there. One is, of course, glad for the small army of academics for whom gainful employment is thus provided, but the question naturally arises whether so many books covering the same ground serve any useful purpose. In Professor McSweeney\u27s case the answer is yes. His book is rewarding because he is sufficiently master of his subject to make it his own. He forms his own judgements, chooses his own very telling quotations and balances his comments to make us look freshly at the novels and the novelist. The first three chapters give us George Eliot up to Adam Bede. We get a clear picture of her Warwickshire background, her early religious experience, her intellectual development and her widening social circle. McSweeney emphasizes the central place of moral belief in the growth of her mind, deals sensitively with her emotional life, and even manages in a few pages to provide a nucleus of critical discussion. A highly interesting quotation from Nietzsche was quite new to me: \u27They are rid of the Christian God and now believe all the more firmly that they must cling to Christian morality. That is an English consistency; we do not wish to hold it against little moralist females a la Eliot. In England one must rehabilitate oneself after every little emancipation from theology by showing in a veritably awe-inspiring manner what a moral fanatic one is. That is the penance they pay there.\u27 (Professor McSweeney seems to have read almost as much as George Eliot did. He is equally at borne with Comte, Feuerbach, George Sand, Balzac and Walter Scott.

Young people's advisory groups in health research: scoping review and mapping of practices

Background Young people’s advisory groups (YPAGs) for research are comprised of children or adolescents who work with researchers to shape different stages of the research process. Their involvement is expected to ensure studies better reflect the preferences and needs of targeted youth populations. However, despite their increasing use in health research, there is little systematic evidence on the methods and impacts associated with YPAGs. Method To address this gap, we conducted a scoping review of YPAGs in youth-focused health studies. We systematically searched MEDLINE for empirical studies in populations between 12 years and 18 years of age published in 2019. If a potential YPAG was identified, authors were contacted for additional information about the activities and level of involvement of the YPAG. Findings Of all studies that collected primary data from persons aged 12–18 years, only 21 studies reported using youth advice during their research. This represents less than 1% of all published empirical child and adolescent studies. There was variation in the type of research activity undertaken by YPAGs and their level of involvement. Most studies involved YPAGs in co-production of research design and/or in dissemination activities. The majority of authors that responded were positive about the impact of YPAGs. Interpretation Recommendations for consistent reporting of YPAG involvement in empirical studies include reporting on the match between YPAG and study populations, frequency/format of meetings, and the nature and level of involvement

Affects in Hemingway’s Nick Adams Sequence

Examines three Nick Adams stories, “Indian Camp,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” and “Fathers and Sons,” to show how Hemingway deepens reader engagement through the creation of intense experience. Analyzes the effects of omission within the stories as well as their intertextual relationship to each other and to other Nick Adams stories

Revaluing Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler's literary intentions included such areas as "home," satirical impulse, and construction of human morals. Then extent to which he has been realized his declared intentions and the degree to which he has been able to make them compliment one another are appropriate gauges for a critical assessment of his principal novels