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Discusses the significance to Dracula, Svengali and other literary characters of the way in which they embodied and alluded to a number of popular apprehensions which clustered around the appearance in England of great numbers of Eastern European Jews at the end of the nineteenth century. Success of English actor and producer Herbert Beerbohm Tree's play in which his starring role was Svengali, a weird, spectral Satanic figure; Reaction of Victorian audience on Tree's Satanic interpretation of the role; Comments from Nina Auerbach, in "Woman and the Demon," about the revelation of a dominant myth of the last decade of the nineteenth century; Relationship and parallelism between Svengali and Dracula and the women they dominate.

Demonstrates the parallelism between the works of authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sarah Orne Jewett. Focus on Jewett's `A White Heron' and Hawthorne's `Young Goodman Brown'; Sharing of themes; Settings; Narrative sequences; Images; Dynamics; Inconclusiveness of endings; Difference in Jewett's wilderness and Hawthorne's forest; Consequences of moral choices.

Focuses on the literary significance of the perceived incomplete novel ' The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,' by Edgar Allan Poe. Genre of the story; Revelation of horrific and supernatural occurrences in the novel; Linkage of the details of Pym's adventures to some mythic structure.

Presents a critical analysis of the book 'The Rise of David Levinsky,' by Abraham Cahan. Explanation for the neglect of the work as a novel; Plot of the novel; Interpretation of the main character of the book.

Presents an article about the establishment of ethnic food and beer clusters in the U.S. during the 19th century. Importance of familiar food and drink to immigrants; Role of food and drink in the establishment of German communities in several states; Preservation of ethnic identity through the mother; Decline in the authenticity of ethnic foods following the emergence of products that appeal to the general market.