Department of English at the University of Virginia

Paul Cantor

(1977)
Clifton Waller Barrett Professor
Romanticism, Shakespeare, Comparative Literature

Ph.D. Harvard, 1971
A.B. Harvard, 1966

Macbeth und die Evangelisierung von Schottland. Siemens Foundation, 1993.
Shakespeare: Hamlet. Cambridge U P, 1989.
Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism. Cambridge U P, 1984.
Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire. Cornell, 1976.

"Oscar Wilde: The Man of Soul Under Socialism," in Beauty and the Critic ed. James Soderholm (1997).
"'A Soldier and Afeard': Macbeth and the Gospelling of Scotland," Interpretation (1997).
"The Apocalypse of Empire: Mary Shelley's The Last Man," in Iconoclastic Departments: Mary Shelley after "Frankenstein", ed. Syndy Conger, Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O'Dea (1997).
"Tales of the Alhambra: Rushdie's Use of Spanish History in The Moor's Last Sigh," Studies in the Novel (1997).
"King Lear: The Tragic Disjunction of Wisdom and Power, " in Shakespeare's Policical Pagent, ed. Joseph Alulis and Vickie Sullivan (1996).
"Happy Days in the Veld: Beckett in Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country," South Atlantic Quarterly (1994).
"Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann In Light of Austrian Economics," Review of Austrian Economics (1993).
"Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicist Vision," Academic Questions (1993).
"Adolf, We Hardly Knew You," in New Essays on "White Noise", ed. Frank Lentricchia (1991).
"Leo Strauss and Contemporary Hermeneutics," in Leo Strauss's Thought, ed. Alan Udoff (1991).