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Justine S. Murison's book, "Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States," offers a fresh perspective on the culture of private life in American literature during this time period. Murison explores the rise of nineteenth-century liberalism, which pushed religious belief and morality into the private sphere. She argues that private life became the foundation of public and political life, and that it needed to be prepared to be exposed. Murison analyzes various novelistic genres and social and political concerns to examine issues such as secrecy, conspiracy, fashion, marriage norms, infidelity, and hypocrisy, ultimately reimagining the "secular public sphere." The book also delves into the works of female authors, such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and their engagement with cultural debates about marriage and morality. Overall, "Faith in Exposure" offers a valuable contribution to the study of the relationship between novels and private life, marriage norms, and women's writing in the nineteenth century. [Extracted from the article]

As authorities braced for the arrival of the Omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), infrastructure investments and government directives prompted action in central Viet Nam to establish capacity for genomic surveillance sequencing. From 17 November 2021 to 7 January 2022, the Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang sequenced 162 specimens from 98 150 confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases in the region collected from 8 November to 31 December 2021. Of these, all 127 domestic cases were identified as the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant, whereas 92% (32/35) of imported cases were identified as the B.1.1.529 (Omicron) variant, all among international flight passengers. Patients were successfully isolated, enabling health-care workers to prepare for additional cases. Most (78%) of the 32 Omicron cases were fully vaccinated, suggesting continued importance of public health and social measures to control the spread of new variants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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By Timothy Sweet. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 222 pages. The virtue of labor has deep ideological roots in American culture. For the New English Puritans, it served as [...]

INTRODUCTION I have no doubt that if the records of the time of ... Hammurabi, could be completely restored, we should learn that in the third millennium before Christ men [...]

The author discusses the historic reinvention of the Pocahontas Story in light of the qualities of enlightened civility and refinement found in post-revolutionary America. Problematic issues in the era's sentimental culture and philosophy are examined.