David Wagenknecht
davwag@bu.edu

Professor. A.B., A.M., Boston University; D. Phil., Sussex

Teaching and Research Interests: Romanticism; psychoanalysis and literary theory; philosophy and literature; modern drama  

Selected Publications: Blake's Night: William Blake & the Idea of Pastoral (1973); "Mimicry against Mimesis in 'Infant Sorrow': Seeing Through Blake's Image with Adorno and Lacan," Studies in Romanticism 41 (2002); "Getting the Picture: The Aesthetics of Hysteria in Henry James's 'The Special Type,'" ELH 66 (1999); "Recasting Moses: Narrative and Drama in the Dumbshow of Freud's 'The Moses of Michelangelo,'" American Imago 52 (1995)

Work in Progress: A study of Romanticism and paranoia.

Other Professional Activities: Editor, Studies in Romanticism.