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Michael Scrivener Professor Office: 9201.2, 5057 Woodward Hours: By Appointment Phone: (313) 577-3213 E-mail: michael.scrivener@wayne.edu

Area of Specialization:
ERomantic-era writing (especially by Thelwall, the Shelleys, Wollstonecraft, Anglo-Jewish writers); Jewish studies, American and British; literary theory (Freud, Frankfurt School, hermeneutics)

Education

B.A., SUNY at Buffalo, 1970,
M.A., SUNY at Binghamton, 1972
Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1976

Representative Publications

" British-Jewish Writing of the Romantic Era and the Problem of Modernity: The Example of David Levi," in Sheila A. Spector, ed., British Romanticism and the Jews. History, Culture, Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 159-77.
Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing (Penn State Press, 2001).

Poetry and Reform: Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press, 1792-1824, editor (Wayne State University Press, 1992).

Radical Shelley: The Philosophical Anarchism and Utopian Thought of P. B. Shelley (Princeton University Press, 1982).

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