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The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays, first published in 1991, argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as a social force as well as a literary form. In his introduction Donald Pease recounts the fall and rise of the novel's value in literary history, outlines the various critical responses to Silas Lapham, and restores the novel to its social context. The essays that follow expand on this theme, challenging the accepted views of literary critics by explicating narrative methods and the genre of literary realism. Focusing much of its attention on economics of morality, manners, and pain, as well as the marketplace, the volume as a whole argues that a relationship exists between Howells's realism and its socioeconomic context.

Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combination of these themes produces a study that is fresh, insightful, and provocative.

Mr. [W. Nathaniel Howell] said he and other American diplomats had \"vacated\" the American Embassy in Kuwait, but he insisted, \"We did not close it. The flag still flies.\" \"As you might understand,\" he said, \"we haven't had electricity or water for 110 days, so we're looking forward to that.\" The diplomats were staying in a luxury hotel near the airport here before flying to Washington on Friday.

W. Nathaniel Howell, the American Ambassador to Kuwait, after arriving yesterday...

''I have been Mr. [Robert Merkle]'s hostage,'' said [Carlos Lehder Rivas]. ''I'm a political prisoner. My arrest is illegal.'' But Judge [Howell W. Melton] said politics was not at the root of the case. Earlier Wednesday, he sentenced Lehder's co-defendant Jack Carlton Reed, 58 years old, to 15 years in prison on a single court of conspiracy. ''You were not convicted because of your political beliefs, because you are a Colombian,'' the judge said to Mr. Lehder. He said the the smuggling was done for ''money'' and ''greed.'' Mr. Merkle's replacement, United States Attorney Joe Magri, who attended the sentencing as a spectator, called Lehder ''a cocaine narco-terrorist'' and applauded the sentence. ''The judge fairly, justly and appropriately socked it to a hoodlum,'' said Magri.

Perhaps the only consolation that the Colombian drug kingpin [Carlos Lehder Rivas] could find at his sentencing in Florida last week was that the judge did not quite throw the book at him. Prosecutors had asked Federal District Judge [Howell W. Melton] to sentence Mr. Lehder to life in prison without parole, plus 150 years, following his May conviction for smuggling 3.3 tons of cocaine into the country.

Mary Ann (Clark) Howell, 76, of Enfield and wife of the late, Ned W. Howell, passed away, Wednesday, (February 4, 2004) at Evergreen Health Care Center in Stafford. She was born in Brooklyn, NY on April 2, 1927 to the late, Clarence and Anna C. (Anderson) Clark. She was a longtime resident of Enfield and had worked for the Enfield Public School System as an Executive Secretary for over 38 years before retiring.

Describing his departure from the besieged embassy Thursday, he said that as he left the Iraqis were building bunkers along the sea coast and the embassy. \"I saw no indication that they planned to leave,\" he said, adding: \"The ordeal of the Kuwaitis, and the problem created by the war begun in August, which we all would prefer to be solved peacefully, still persists.\" Canned Tuna Diet \"Cut off from some of the most basic of human necessities,\" Mr. [James A. Baker] said in his welcoming address, \"you have been victorious over an uncivilized and brutal ordeal.\" In keeping with the Administration's tough words toward Iraq, Mr. Baker continued: \"As you were freed, now, too, we must see Kuwait freed of Iraqi occupation. The will of the international community, like your will, will not be broken. The world is determined to see this aggression reversed.\"

Through comparative close readings of Matthew Arnold, William Dean Howells, W.B. Yeats and W.E.B. Du Bois, this text questions the notion of 'the West' as it appears in the formulations of postcolonial theory and forces readers to reconsider the meaning of 'culture', 'identity' and 'national literature'.