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Critical Insights: Greed

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Robert C. Evans




Greed: Culture and Literature, Richard Newhauser




Critical Contexts




Radix malorum est cupiditas: Greed in the Literature of Late Medieval England, Virginia Langum




Greed, Avarice, and Luxury in Literature: A Survey of Some Relevant Scholarship, Robert C. Evans




Curse of the Fukú: Predatory Greed in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Vincent Walsh




Greed as a Theme in Orwell’s Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Robert C. Evans




Critical Readings




John Sekora on Greed and Luxury, Kelly Snyder




Formal Capacities and Relational Understandings: Greed in Literature, Art, and Sociology, Wendy Griswold




The Legacy of Legacy-Hunting in Ben Jonson’s Volpone, Michael W. Stamps




Early Images of Scrooge and Marley: Closely Reading Some Illustrations of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Jordan Bailey and Philip Joseph Trussell




Two Filmed Versions of Ebenezer Scrooge: Sim and Scott, Brandie B. Johnson




“Bartleby,” Greed, and Aesthetics, John C. Havard




Mark Twain and Greed, R. Kent Rasmussen




An Anti-Greed Novel: Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now, Nicolas Tredell




Greed in African Slave Narratives: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Other Relevant Examples, Robert C. Evans




A Psychology of Greed in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff




Addicted to Greed: Martin Amis’s Money, Nicolas Tredell




Land Ownership and Agency in Mahasweta Devi’s Tale “Seeds,” Virginia L. Lewis




Resources




Further Reading




Bibliography




About the Editor




Contributors