Lecture presented by Hudson Senior Fellow, Amy A. Kass, on March 13, 2010, for Winter Weekend on Middlemarch, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities, at Bowdoin College.

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The logo of Japan's largest steel manufacturer Nippon Steel corporation is seen in front of the company's head office in Tokyo on January 7, 2025. (David Marueil/ via Getty Images)