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Staging Depth: Eugene O'neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse (Cultural Studies of the United States) - Softcover

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Synopsis

Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of 'psychological' individualism for his social class.

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About the Author

Joel Pfister, associate professor of American studies and English at Wesleyan University, is author of The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne's Fiction.

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Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of 'psychological' individualism for his social class.

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