Contents
Summer 2010, Volume 75, Number 3
Special Cluster
Enterprise and Drama: Performing Capital
on the American Stage
Introduction
Ilka Saal and Ralph J. Poole
3
Postmodern Aesthetics and Postindustrial
Economics: Games of Empire in Suzan Lori
Parks’s Topdog/Underdog
Jochen Achilles
11
“Dirty Sexy Money”: Commodified Identities
and Acts of Consumption in Chirstopher Shinn’s
Other People and Where We Come From
Sabrina Hüttner
25
“How Do You Think We Get to Pottery Barn?”
Mainstream Gay Drama, Homonormativity, and
the Culture of Neoliberalism
Leopold Lippert
41
The Amateur Hour: On Value, Personality and
the Form of Appearance in the Economy of
Attention
Giulia Palladini
61
Essays
Putting Down Parking Lots out There in Unpaved
Paradise: Toni Morrison [en]Counters American
Cowboy Culture
Susan Neal Mayberry
83
Youthful Resentment, Bourgeois (Anti-)Heroism
and Sublime Unrest: Conrad’s “The Duel” and
Ridley Scott’s The Duellists
Flavio Gregori
109
Review Essay
Towards a More Human T.S. Eliot:
Two New Books
Frances Dickey
131
Book Reviews
Approaches to Teaching Lazarillo de Tormes and the
Picaresque Tradition
edited by Anne J. Cruz
(Amy P. Alfieri)139
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The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare
by William W. E. Slights
(Hilary Binda)141
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
edited by Philip C. Kolin
(Lori Brister)145
Tratado de la superstición occidental
by Alberto Ortiz
(María Jesús Zamora Calvo)146
Erasmus and Voltaire: Why They Still Matter
by Ricardo J. Quinones
(Thomas L. Cooksey)148
Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI
edited by Araceli Tinajero
(Linda Crawford)151
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s
Poetry from France
edited by Gretchen Schultz
(Nancy Sloan Goldberg)153
Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and
Technology in Contemporary Fictions
by Fred Botting
(Melissa McLeod)156
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William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South
by John T. Matthews
(Clay Motley)160
Notes on Contributors
163