Annotated Bibliography
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Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.
Anchor Books: New York, 1997. Print.
Krakauer personally takes the challenge of climbing Mt. Everest in 1996. This became the deadliest expedition to ever climb with 15 people losing their lives. Krakauer explains his intrinsic motivations to accept this challenge and many of the mistakes that helped lead to the disasters of that day. His account removes any misinformation about that expedition while also providing a critical account of what the tour guides did that day. This source is riveting and suspenseful. Without understanding all of the technical jargon associated with mountain climbing, Krakauer softly guides his reader through it all.
Mandel, Jerome. "The Grotesque Rose: Medieval Romance and The Great
Gatsby." Modern Fiction Studies 34(1988): 541-558. Print.
Mandel argues that Gatsby follows many of the conventions of medieval romance, and analyzes East and West Egg as competing courts, Buchanan as a prince/Lord with Daisy as unattainable queen/fair lady. Gatsby and Nick are both construed as knights; Jordan is only mentioned in passing as a sort of attendant figure on Queen Daisy. This whole analysis seems somewhat farfetched.
Renner, Stanley. “’Red Hair, very red, close curling”: Sexual Hysteria.
Physiognomical Bogeymen, and the 'Ghosts' in The Turn of the Screw." In
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw. Ed. Peter G. Beidler. Boston: Bedford
Books, 1995. 223-241.

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Renner asserts that what has previously been considered a supernatural event in
James' Turn of the Screw is actually a psychological one. According to Renner, James was in fact using the psychosis of the governess to comment on repressive Victorian sexual ideals and their effects on individuals. Renner uses a little bit of biography to show that James would have been familiar with "sexual hysteria", but the more successful part of the article is his careful analysis of physiognomical stereotyping in the Victorian
Era. His central argument effectively links the onset of the governess's sexual hysteria and hallucination with the influence of Victorian assumptions about character and physical appearance.
Waite, Linda J., Frances Kobrin Goldscheider, and Christina Witsberger.
"Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations
Among Young Adults." American Sociological Review 51.4 (1986): 541-554.
Print.
The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.

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