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Gerald MacLean
Professor
Office: 9310, 5057 Woodward
Hours: By Appointment
Phone: (313) 577-3060
E-mail: aa2828@wayne.edu
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Area of Specialization
17th-century poetry and history, Restoration literature, critical theory, textual studies, cultural studies, cultural materialism, feminist theory, Orientalism
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Work Available Online
The Return of the King : An Anthology of English Poems Commemorating the Restoration of Charles II / edited by Gerald MacLean. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Publications Available Through Amazon
The Rise of Oriental Travel : English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720
by Gerald MacLean, 2004
The Rise of Oriental Travel follows four seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while it was still expanding westward and the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. Contrary to the hostile declamations of Protestant preachers, they all found much to admire, from the multi-culturalism of the Ottoman system to the food, weather and styles of life. This book shows that hostility between East and West is neither historical or inevitable, but rather the result of selective memory |
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The Country and the City Revisited : England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850
by Gerald MacLean (Editor), Donna Landry (Editor), Jo Ward. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Between 1550 and 1850, how were the English people able to transform themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power? This book supplements Raymond Williams's seminal work on the country and the city by applying exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the question. During the great age of mercantilism, new conceptions of space, time, and social identity began to emerge that are still with us today. This collection of essays by major scholars looks afresh at central issues of early modern English history. |
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The Spivak Reader : Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerald MacLean (Editor), Donna Landry (Editor). Routledge, 1995.
Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies. Although her rigorous reading of various authors has often rendered her work difficult terrain for those unfamiliar with poststructuralism, this collection makes significant strides in explicating Spivak's complicated theories of reading. |
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Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration : Literature, Drama, History
by Gerald MacLean (Editor). Cambridge University, 1995.
Questions of national identity and difference came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition during the Stuart Restoration. Thus religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation. |
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Materialist Feminisms
by Gerald MacLean, Donna Landry . Basil Blackwell, 1993.
This text investigates the theoretical and political debates that have determined the course of British and United States feminism over the last 30 years. It examines the work of such feminist theorists as Michele Barrett, Judith Butler, Rosalind Coward, Donna Haraway and bellhooks. |
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