The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope

Acknowledgements

Foreword (John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)

Introduction: Public Hopes (Joel Faflak: University of Western Ontario, English and Jason Haslam: Dalhousie University, English)

Part One: Public Readings

1. “Maga-Scenes: Performing Periodical Literature in the 1820s”
(Angela Esterhammer: Principal of Victoria College, Professor of English, University of Toronto)

2. “‘A Wicked Whisper’: Censorship and Affect in Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’”
(Julia M. Wright: Dalhousie University, English)

3. “Sense and Sensibility: Anatomies of Hope in Romantic-Century Medical Pedagogy”
(James Allard: Brock University, English Language and Literature)

4. “‘I know the difference between what I see and what I only want to see’:Remembering India’s Partition through Children in Cracking India”
(Nandi Bhatia: University of Western Ontario, English)

Part Two: Public Performances

5. “Margaret Cavendish’s Civilizing Songs”
(Katherine R. Larson: University of Toronto, English)

6. “Get Happy! American Film Musicals and the Political Technology of Utopianism”
(Joel Faflak: University of Western Ontario, English)

7. “To Be (Or Not To Be): Ernst Lubitsch’s Irrepressible Theatrical Liberalism”
(Andrea Most: University of Toronto, English, American Literature and Jewish Studies)

8. “Inglourious Criticism, Basterd Fantasies: Rancière, Tarantino and the Intellectual Spectacle of Hope”
(Jason Haslam: Dalhousie University, English)

Part Three: Public Matters

9. “Beyond the Book: Reading as Public Intellectual Activity”
(Daniel Coleman: McMaster University, English and Cultural Studies)

10. “The Political Nature of Things: David Suzuki and the Canadian Public”
(Imre Szeman: University of Alberta, English and Film Studies)

11. “The Immaterial Matters”
(R. Darren Gobert: York University, English)

12. “Higher Education and the End(s) of Time”
(Patrick Deane: President and vice-chancellor of McMaster University)

List of Contributors

Index