Eliza Haywood produced innovative, socially meritorious, and entertaining literature throughout her career. In particular, her novels often told stories about people who did not always make socially or morally correct choices; their missteps made them interesting and provided the basis for stories that examined what happened when people defied the status quo. Alexander Pettit observes that " [i...

Word segmentation is a necessary first step for automatic syntactic analysis of Chinese text. Chinese segmentation is highly accurate on news data, but the accuracies drop significantly on other domains, such as science and literature. For scientific domains, a significant portion of out-of-vocabulary words are domain-specific terms, and therefore lexicons can be used to improve segmentation si...

Thomas Keneally has long been a writer who gives expression to nationalist sentiment. In 1978 J.J. Healy commented that writers such as Keneally represented ‘a collective, many-motived consciousness’ whose impulse was ‘political, public’. Indeed, many of Keneally’s earlier novels illustrate what we might call ‘national progenitors’. In From The Ruins of Colonialism Chris Healy describes a uniqu...

The important relationship between illness and morality in the fiction of Mrs Henry Wood looms large in her 1866 novel Elster’s Folly. This article argues that Wood’s apparently conservative sensationalism, suggested by the presence of a moralizing narrator in many of her works, as well as by the conclusions to her novels, in which order is almost inevitably restored, in fact conceals a more su...

"Divine William" and The Master: The Influence of Shakespeare on the Novels of Henry James

EcoGothic studies has, so far, primarily focused on uncanny environments imagined by Western writers. In response, this article compares polluted, haunting in two contemporary Anglophone novels from the Global South: Tash Aw’s We, Survivors(2019) and HelonHabila’s Oil Water(2011). Through vivid representations of forbidding jungles Malaysian palm oil plantations toxic waters oil-rich Niger Delt...

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether newborns respond differently to novel and deviant sounds during quiet sleep. METHODS Twelve healthy neonates were presented with a three-stimulus oddball paradigm, consisting of frequent standard (76%), infrequent deviant (12%), and infrequent novel stimuli (12%). The standards and deviants were counterbalanced between the newborns and consisted of 500 and 75...

Malloy, Amanda, "Scout's daughters : race and creative development in contemporary adolescent literature" (2011). Honors Theses. Paper 117. At the heart of what Roberta S. Trites titles ―adolescent literature‖ – works written both for and about young adults—is a question of agency (Disturbing 7). In Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature, Trites asserts that adol...