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Late nineteenth-century British and American literature

Cultural theory; film

Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture (Stanford University Press, 1990). The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Aggression, and The Making of Literary Anglo-America (Oxford, 2000). Edited: Oscar Wilde: New Century Views (Prentice-Hall, 1996); The Cambridge Companion to Henry James (Cambridge, 1998), and Hitchcock’s America (Oxford, 1999). Recent articles include: Coming Out of the Jewish Closet With Marcel Proust (Gay and Lesbian Studies Quarterly, 2001); On Different Differences, or Reopening the Canon of Worms (Textual Practice, 2001), How Now, Middlebrow? (Raritan, 2001).