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Authors: Tammy Roberts
ISBN-13: 9781551114262, ISBN-10: 1551114267
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Broadview Press
Date Published: August 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Tammy Roberts

Book Synopsis

A substantial selection of classic essays allows readers to trace the history of the essay from Swift to Woolf and Orwell and beyond. A selection of the finest of contemporary essays from Joan Didion to Witold Rybcynski provides a broad sample of the genre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The academic essays begin with classic selections from such writers as Darwin and Charles Lyell, but the emphasis is on recent decades. Emphasized as well are academic papers or essays that have been especially influential or controversial, from J. Tuzo Wilson s writing on continental drift to Judith Rich Harris s argument that the influence of peers may be at least as influential in the formation of personality as that of parents.

Works of different lengths, levels of difficulty and subject matter are all represented, as are narrative, descriptive and persuasive essays.

	Preface
	Table of Contents by Subject
	Table of Contents by Rhetorical Category
	Of Democritus and Heraclitus	1
	from Of Experience	4
	from Of the Education of Children	8
	Of Studies	11
	from For Whom This Bell Tolls (Meditation XVII)	14
	On Social Class and Happiness	16
	On Hearing the Ship Was Drowned	18
	A Modest Proposal	20
	On Becoming Acquainted with Our Real Characters	29
	To Reign Once More in Our Native Country	33
	To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun	37
	from The Principles of Geology	42
	Niagara	46
	Civil Disobedience	50
	Ball-Playing	71
	from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection	73
	from Only Temper	79
	A River Pilot Looks at the Mississippi	83
	The New Aesthetic	86
	On Halsted Street	89
	A Mild Suggestion	92
	Roughing It in the Bush	96
	Professions for Women	101
	The Death of the Moth	106
	Once More to the Lake	110
	Politics and the English Language	117
	Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool	130
	from The Highway and the City	146
	from Behavioral Study of Obedience	151
	Correctness and the English Language	163
	Letter from Birmingham Jail	165
	Dinner with my Celebrated Pen Pal T. S. Eliot	181
	On Going Home	184
	Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?	188
	The Way to Rainy Mountain	206
	Where the World Began	213
	The World of Wrestling	219
	Ladies and Gentlemen, Stompin' Tom Connors!	229
	Pablo Picasso	240
	Mme. Marie Curie (1866-1934)	242
	Pig Lovers and Pig Haters	245
	The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn	261
	Children: Pro or Con?	274
	Speciesism and the Equality of Animals	277
	Taking Women Students Seriously	283
	Invisibility in Academe	290
	Moral Saints	294
	Another Accolade for Charter Arms Corp	314
	What is Real?	318
	Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin	323
	Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism	350
	Entropic Homogeneity Isn't Why No One Hits 400 Any More	367
	from Decolonising the Mind	384
	Terwilliger Bunts One	394
	Four Farms in the Tenth of Reach	402
	Our Daughters, Ourselves	411
	Intoxicated by My Illness	414
	A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman	418
	The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles	423
	On Poetry	441
	Silence and the Notion of the Commons	443
	Fear Itself	450
	Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital	462
	Transcribing Insima, a Blackfoot "Old Lady"	479
	The Passing of Anatole Broyard	499
	The Sports Taboo	528
	Philosophy, Morality, and The English Patient	539
	Where is the Child's Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development	546
	Saving the Balzar	564
	from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families	574
	How People Power Topples the Tyrant	582
	Political Animals and the Body of History	587
	One Good Turn Why the Robertson Screwdriver is the Biggest Little Invention of the Twentieth Century	597
	Does Working for Welfare Work?	602
	The Swoosh	611
	First Job	626
	Biographical Notes	629
	Acknowledgements	643
	Index	649