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And as a form designed to be read over long periods of time , often in isolation , always with patience , concentration , sympathy and interest , the novel required a type of responsiveness that was at once rapt ( capable of identifying fully with the feelings of fictional characters ) and removed ( aware of itself as a reality apart from the world of the novel ) . " We will ask what history is ( or what histories are ) ; we will examine how stories and histories separate and merge ; and we will work from these considerations to a broader reflection on the idea of family itself . " While my family and I fortunately evacuated to Houston , Texas prior to the hurricane 's arrival , we lost the bulk of our clothes and personal belongings . " I think she would try to go to college and get on with her life as best she could and see what the Court of Appeals does , " defense lawyer Steven Wells said . " Of course , you ought to go away , " she continued . He could not have assigned the cause of the fits of quit weeping which took him sometimes ; they came and went , like the fitful illumination of the clouds that travelled over the square ; and perhaps , after all , if he was not happy , he was not unhappy . In the middle of the mantelpiece there stood a picture , a portrait of his grandmother ; he placed himself before this picture , so that he could see in the glass of it the steady flame of the candle that burned behind him on the chest of drawers . In literature courses and even in literary anthologies , the great Irish writers tend to get lumped in with English ones : Most of us gain our scant familiarity with Irish authors ( think : Swift , Burke , Wilde , Shaw , Yeats , Beckett , Joyce ) in courses on English literary history , where they are presented as exemplary participants in a cultural and aesthetic tradition that , in many crucial respects , was not their own . Anthony Trollope labeled him " Mr. Popular Sentiment , " while George Eliot and Henry James both devised their conceptions of plot , character , and artistic purpose from careful - - and highly critical - - study of Dickens ' work . The little fat man ran eagerly forwarded , saying that she had bought the key of him . After jurors were thanked and excused , she was handcuffed and returned to jail . " Cases we 'll be looking at concern ingestion of Vioxx for 18 months or more , " by patients with limited heart risk factors , Kent Jarrell , spokesman for the company 's legal team , told The Associated Press.While Merck could decide to fight some cases aggressively , Jarrell said " we could decide to settle " others . From its earliest incarnations , the British novel concerns itself with problems of exploration , discovery , colonization and control ; using motifs of travel , shipwreck , and settlement to outline the contours of home . Technology affects both internal and external communications , and we can use it to link us within our organizations , and to our publics . We will focus our attention on some of the major fiction of the period , attending to issues of style and form as well as to how the novel participates in Victorian debates about poverty , sexuality , morality , change , and imperialism . You should use the assignment as an exercise in framing and expressing your thoughts and queries about some particular aspect of what we have read , and you should also conceive of your post as part of an ongoing dialogue : respond to other posts , raise questions , add context , debate . Even when we collaborate we need to maintain the standards of each institution . It is also the story of how , even as the novel aged , it was - - and still is - - understood as a literary form with a remarkable capacity to renew itself . Aspiring authors copied him , criticized him , revered him , and mocked him . " Eventually , they 'll have to face us . As we read , we will question what it means to name a literary genre after a historical period that is itself named after a monarch . " " You 'd better get down here and go back , Paul , " she said . Quite at the beginning we wink , and promise ourselves that we will put Her Ladyship through her paces , neglect her for a day , turn her own jealous wiles against her , flout and ignore her when she comes home wheedling ; perhaps there lurks within us all the time a heartless sprite who is never fooled ; but in the end all falls away . " But , she said , she was swayed by defense evidence that Waterman had not provided the men information about how to get into the house , including the location of a key the family kept outside for emergencies.Dilley said that if Waterman was involved in the plan , she would have known about the key . The various moods of these literary backward looks will also occupy us : they range from the buoyant optimism of Pickwick to the biting satire of Vanity Fair to the measured , scholarly realism of Middlemarch .