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Introducing "Critical Essays": Leigh Hunt and theatrical criticism in the early nineteenth century
(2001)
The years 1801 to 1808 saw the emergence of Leigh Hunt as a public figure on the London literary scene, first with the publication of his collection of poetry, "Juvenilia", and then with his work as theater critic for "The ...
From Dante to the Romantics : The Reception History of Leigh Hunt's "The Story of Rimini"
(2001)
1816 was arguably the most significant year in Leigh Hunt's career as a Romantic poet. After a two-year imprisonment, he had spent much of 1815 going back to the theatre and seeing Edmund Kean, the actor whom Hazlitt had ...
Population Ethics
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-09)
This paper reviews the welfarist approach to population ethics. We provide an overview of the critical-level utilitarian population principles and their generalized counterparts, examine important properties of these ...
Sharing a River among Satiable Countries
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
With diminishing global water reserves the problem of water allocation becomes increasingly important. We consider the problem of efficiently sharing a river among a group of satiable countries. Inducing countries to ...
Putting plays (and more) in cyberspace : an overview of the British women playwrights around 1800 project
(2003)
The british women playwrights around 1800 Web project has had a split allegiance from its beginning. Its beginnings lay in our interest in sustaining over time a community that had begun exploring the histories and writing ...
Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-07)
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case when contributions ...
Readings of homosexuality in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and four film adaptations
(2005)
This essay proposes to read one more time the issue of homosexuality in Mary Shelley's first novel, "Frankenstein". In order to offer a new angle on the homosexual component of Victor Frankenstein's relationship with his ...
Exploring gothic sexuality
(2001)
In his well-known analysis of the evolution of sexuality in society in "Making sexual history", Jeffrey Weeks comments that, following a series of major challenges throughout the twentieth century (ranging from Freud's ...
Challenges of Deliberation and Participation
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006-12)
The future of sustainability is tied to the future of our ability to manage interconnectedness and interdependence,
and thus to our abilities to engage in cooperative, value-creating public deliberations and
negotiations.To ...
A Characterization of Consistent Collective Choice Rules
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2006-08)
We characterize a class of collective choice rules such that collective preference relations are consistent. Consistency is a weakening of transitivity and a strengthening of acyclicity requiring that there be no cycles ...