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Ph.D., New York University.
Professor, The City College. English and Comparative Literature.

Selected Publications:

• "Reading the Deadly Text of Modernism: Vico's Philosophy of History and Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson " (Clio, 1998).

• "The Deadly Misreading of Mythic Texts: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (IJCT, 1999).

• The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon (The University Press of Virginia, 1992).

• "George Henry Lewes, George Eliot, and Vico: The Shaping of a Modern Creed" (New Vico Studies, 1984).

• "Middlemarch: The Genesis of Myth in the English Novel: The Relationship Between Literary Form and the Modern Predicament" (The Notre Dame English Journal: Special Session: A Symposium on Art: Kenneth Burke, M.H. Abrams, Felicia Bonaparte (Summer, 1981).

• The Triptych and the Cross: The Central Myths of George Eliot's Poetic Imagination (New York University Press, 1979).

• Will and Destiny: Morality and Tragedy in George Eliot's Novels (New York University Press, 1975).

Forthcoming:

• Written in Invisible Ink: The Metafictions of the Victorians

Work In Progress:

• The Aesthetics of Poesis: German Romanticism, Mythic Symbolism, and Nineteenth-Century English Fiction

PhD Program in English
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