Category Archives: Marcus, Steven

Hard Boiled Lit

“Dashiell Hammett gave legions of readers memorable characters such as the Continental Op, the Thin Man, and Sam Spade. His most recent editor, literary scholar Steven Marcus [NHC Fellow 1980-82], of Columbia University, talks […] about Hammett’s life, times, and … Continue reading

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Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis, Part 2 of 2

Sigmund Freud is a central figure in the transition from late Victorian English science and culture to twentieth-century conceptions and practices of neurobiology and psychotherapy. In his book Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis, Steven Marcus traces the dynamics and contradictions … Continue reading

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Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis, Part 1 of 2

Arnold Cooper and Steven Marcus discuss questions around the figure of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), one of a handful of intellectual presences presiding over Western thought and culture in the late twentieth century. Who was Sigmund Freud, and why is he important in the … Continue reading

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Afro-American History, Part 2 of 3: (1) Ethiopia; (2) Commentary on William Wells Brown

By nearly all accounts–political, social, and moral–Ethiopia in the mid-1980s was one of the crisis points in contemporary global relations. According to Harold Marcus, the answers to many Ethiopian issues, including politics and subsistence, are as varied as Ethiopia’s cultural, linguistic, … Continue reading

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Cultural and Aesthetic Modernism, Part 4 of 5

Harvey Gross, Diane Leonard, Steven Marcus, and James Olney discuss how best to measure the cultural and aesthetic health of a society, whether great art can be consistently equated with great social institutions, and some of the criteria against which … Continue reading

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Cultural and Aesthetic Modernism, Part 3 of 5

Harvey Gross, Diane Leonard, Steven Marcus, and James Olney discuss the importance of social, artistic, and political criticism to the rise of modernism in the twentieth century. At the time of this interview, Gross, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center … Continue reading

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Cultural and Aesthetic Modernism, Part 2 of 5

Harvey Gross, Diane Leonard, Steven Marcus, James Olney, and Kejia Yuan describe how modern politics, literature, and the arts are affected by questions of belief, either artistic or religious. At the time of this interview, Gross, a Fellow at the National … Continue reading

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Cultural and Aesthetic Modernism, Part 1 of 5

Harvey Gross, Diane Leonard, Steven Marcus, James Olney, and Kejia Yuan define and debate the meanings of modernism and the modern from the standpoints of literature, philosophy, and criticism. At the time of this interview, Gross, a Fellow at the … Continue reading

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Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud in the 1980s

Werner Dannhauser and Steven Marcus describe why Marx and Freud are two inescapable cultural and intellectual forces of the nineteenth century and discuss parallels and differences between Freudian psychoanalytical and Marxist political theory. Dannhauser and Marcus also talk about the … Continue reading

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Sexuality, Literature, and Society in Victorian England

Steven Marcus discusses his book The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England, which explores gender and sexuality in the literature of that period. Marcus argues that labeling the Victorian era as “repressive” is an oversimplification. … Continue reading

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