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Title:
Greed / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.
Author:
Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]

©2019
Call Number:
PN56.A97 G74 2019
Edition:
[First edition].
ISBN:
9781642652772
Series:
Critical insights

Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 311 pages : llustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
About this volume / Greed : culture and literature / Radix malorum est cupiditas : greed in the literature of late medieval England / Greed, avarice, and luxury in literature : a survey of some relevant scholarship / Curse of the fukú : predatory greed in Junot Diaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Greed as a theme in Orwell's Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / John Sekora on greed and luxury / Formal capacities and relational understandings : greed in literature, art, and sociology / The legacy of legacy-hunting in Ben Jonson's Volpone / Early images of Scrooge and Marley : closely reading some illustrations of Charles Dicken's A Christmas carol / Two filmed versions of Ebenezer Scrooge : Sim and Scott / "Bartleby," greed, and aesthetics / Mark Twain and greed / An anti-greed novel : Anthony Trollope's The way we live now / Greed in African slave narratives : Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon and other relevant examples / A psychology of greed in Charlie and the chocolate factory / Addicted to greed : Martin Amis's Money / Land ownership and agency in Mahasweta Devi's tale "Seeds"
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