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Antitheatricality And Irrationality: An Alternative View, Kent Lehnhof
Antitheatricality And Irrationality: An Alternative View, Kent Lehnhof
English Faculty Articles and Research
"Over the last three decades, antitheatrical authors like Stephen Gosson, Phillip Stubbes, and William Prynne have become increasingly visible in the literary and cultural studies of the early modern period. Even so, the tendency has been to treat these authors as ideological extremists: reactionary hacks whose opposition to stage plays originates in outrageous ideas of the self, impossible notions of right and wrong, and bizarre beliefs about humanity’s susceptibility to external suggestion. This characterization can be traced back to several of the pioneering studies in the field, including Jonas Barish’s The Antitheatrical Prejudice (1985) and Laura Levine’s Men in Women’s …
The Taboo Of Experience, Brian Glaser
The Taboo Of Experience, Brian Glaser
English Faculty Articles and Research
A lyric essay discussing Henry James and cosmopolitanism
from the perspective of a scholar
visiting a German university.
Reassessing Whitman's Hegelian Affinities, Brian Glaser
Reassessing Whitman's Hegelian Affinities, Brian Glaser
English Faculty Articles and Research
This article explores Walt Whitman's Hegelian beliefs.
Hunger Unpublished, Mark Axelrod
Hunger Unpublished, Mark Axelrod
English Faculty Articles and Research
How Mark Axelrod lined up some of the world’s finest writers on one of the world’s biggest issues – and still couldn’t get them into print.