"Cultural Patchwork in the Classroom: Shelley Jackson, Tom Stoppard, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling Rewrite the Romantics." Romanticism and Contemporary Culture. Ed. Laura Mandell and Michael Eberle-Sinatra. (Romantic Circles Praxis Series, February, 2002).
Abstract: Jay Clayton's essay documents, with brio and scholarly rigor, his attempts at bringing together Romantic literature and popular culture in a classroom environment. Clayton explores three modern texts - Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine, and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia - and their relationship to, and usefulness in, teaching Romanticism. He offers a critical reading of these texts and addresses questions of history, genre and periodization.
[Note: Subscribers of The Chronicle of Higher Education can read an article about this essay, published on Friday, March 22, 2002.]
"Dickens and the Genealogy of Postmodernism." Nineteenth-Century Literature 46 (1991): 181-95.
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