If you want a knock-out blow against efficient market theory, just look at recent moves in the discount on Edinburgh's UK tracker investment trust. In the past 12 months, it has ranged between 1 per cent and 8 per cent - it's now...

Maine legislators turn out to be a sentimental lot, full of embracing thoughts and kind feelings toward fellow residents. Give them an opportunity to express that sentiment in official form and they will do it over and over, about 1,500 times a year, and...

Long-term Treasury prices rose Friday after investors moved into the government-backed securities when a poll's results showed weakening consumer sentiment.Such a sign of future economic malaise could increase the odds that the Federal Reserve will cut rates again at its meeting next week.Prices turned higher...

A key measure of industry sentiment on the U.S. market for new homes fell to its lowest point in more than 16 years, a trade group said Tuesday, as builders struggled with rising inventories of unsold houses across the country.The National Association of Home Builders/Wells...

In the following chapter from Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (1986), Davidson discusses the popularity of sentimental novels and the social issues upon which they comment—including marriage, sexuality, childbearing, and domesticity.

In the following essay, Davidson argues that some domestic novels ironically subvert typical social constructions of femininity.'

In this essay, Tompkins defends the domestic novel against the common criticism that it portrays a narrow, trivial, and overly idealistic world. Only the footnoted material pertaining to the essay below has been reprinted in the "Notes" section.