I first read Infinite Jest (1996) in the Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken while I was a
graduate student in the English Department at Stanford University. 1 A partisan of difficult …

In this chapter I discuss two clusters of ideas, seemingly very disparate, and how they can be
combined to improve regional planning. One cluster is from the work of Jürgen Habermas, a …

This dissertation argues that eighteenth-century British authors often employed atheism to
explore both the limits of modern selfhood and the limits of literary representation. Authors …

This thesis disrupts competing interpretations about Eliza Haywood's sexual attitudes and
political alliances by focusing on the innovative elements of her work that foster the …

Most accounts of anti-mimetic fiction's rhetorical capacities limit them to attacks on ideas
associated with the development of the traditional realist novel: for example bourgeois …

ABSTRACT I seek to shed light on social capital by comparing two approaches to it that
seem, at first, to be sharply opposed. The comparison reveals the two approaches are …