Nonfiction
Summer 1992
The Royal Slave and the Prestige of Origins
The topos, or literary commonplace, of a “royal slave,” unites the extremes of authority and privilege, on the one hand, and servitude and loss of freedom, on the other—thus encapsulating […]
1985 Ohio Shakespeare Conference
Summer 1985
Identity Dis-Figured: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream1 has been much better served by the critics than any of Shakespeare’s other early comedies, so I want to acknowledge the indebtedness of my own sense […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1985
The Fate of Iconography
Géricault, His Life and Work by Lorenz E. A. Eitner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. 376 pages. $85.00. Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of Nineteenth-Century Art by Charles Rosen and […]