1. University of Virginia
  2. Arts & Sciences

Paul Cantor

Clifton Waller Barrett Professor

134 Bryan Hall

Office Hours:

MW 3:30-4:30

Class Schedule:

MW 3:30-4:45
TR 12:30-1:45

Degrees

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

Specialties

Romanticism

Books

The Invisible Hand in Pop Culture , The University Press of Kentucky, 2012
Literature and the Economics of Liberty, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009
Shakespeare: Hamlet, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Creature and creator, Cambridge University Press, 1984
Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire, Cornell University Press, 1976

Articles

  • "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).

Honors

  • Ludwig von Mises Prize for Scholarship in Austrian School Economics, 1992
  • Member, National Council on the Humanities, 1992-
  • Director, NEH Summer Seminar in Shakespeare, 1987, 1989
  • Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Davidson College, 1987-88