The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope

Contents

Acknowledgments

JOHN POLANYI

Introduction: Public Hopes

JOEL FAFLAK AND JASON HASLAM

Part One: Public Readings

1 “Maga-scenes”: Performing Periodical Literature in the 1820s

ANGELA ESTERHAMMER

2 “A Wicked Whisper”: Censorship, Affect, and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

JULIA M. WRIGHT

3 Sense and Sensibility: Anatomies of Hope in Romantic-Century Medical Pedagogy

JAMES ROBERT ALLARD

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

Part Two: Public Performances

5 Margaret Cavendish’s Civilizing Songs

KATHERINE R. LARSON

6 Get Happy! American Film Musicals and the Psychopathology of Hope

JOEL FAFLAK

7 To Be (Or Not To Be): Ernst Lubitsch’s Irrepressible Theatrical Liberalism

ANDREA MOST

8 Inglourious Criticism, Basterd Fantasies: Rancière, Tarantino, and the Intellectual Spectacle of Hope

JASON HASLAM

Part Three: Public Matters

9 Beyond the Book: Reading as Public Intellectual Activity

DANIEL COLEMAN

10 The Political Nature of Things: David Suzuki and Narratives of Change

IMRE SZEMAN

11 The Immaterial Matters

R. DARREN GOBERT

12 Higher Education and the End(s) of Time

PATRICK DEANE

List of Contributors