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’Tis the Season: Popular Romance Fiction and the Practice of Democracy

Author: Sreepurna Datta Jadavpur University Download PDF version   In his 1993 book American Political Cultures, Richard Ellis identified “voting in competitive elections, representative government, accountable leadership, and the freedom to pursue one’s own private interests,” as the key features...

T. S. Eliot: A Man of Extremes

Download PDF version   “In my beginning is my end.” — Eliot, “East Coker”   Writing about someone who expressly forbid any biographical commemoration is not an easy task. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) stated in 1925 that no biography about...