Research Catalog

Title

Greed / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Robert C., 1955-

Description

xxiii, 311 pages : llustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

Avarice in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 20-3099

ISBN

• 9781642652772
• 1642652776

OCLC

1100564239

Title

Greed / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3099