Olivia Ferguson – författare

One of the most hotly debated issue, both in politics and the media, is health care and its reform. Sweeping changes impact millions of people, so reform is no easy task. As each President comes to power, he or she tackles health care reform, further creating new debates and controversies. This essential volume helps readers to navigate through various issues, by presenting compelling essay from a variety of well-respected sources. Essay sources include Newt Gingrich, Sarah van Gelder, and Merrill Goozner. Does health care reform give the I.R.S. more power? Will new technologies cut health care costs? Is America already rationing health care? Give your readers the answers.

What was caricature to novelists in the Romantic period? Why does Jane Austen call Mr Dashwood's wife 'a strong caricature of himself'? Why does Mary Shelley describe the body of Frankenstein's creature as 'in proportion', but then 'distorted in its proportions' - and does caricature have anything to do with it? This book answers those questions, shifting our understanding of 'caricature' as a literary-critical term in the decades when 'the English novel' was first defined and canonised as a distinct literary entity. Novels incorporated caricature talk and anti-caricature rhetoric to tell readers what different realisms purported to show them. Recovering the period's concept of caricature, Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel sheds light on formal realism's self-reflexivity about the 'caricature' of artifice, exaggeration and imagination. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.