Volume 75, Number 3

Contents

Summer 2010, Volume 75, Number 3

Special Cluster Enterprise and Drama: Performing Capital on the American Stage Introduction Ilka Saal and Ralph J. Poole

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Postmodern Aesthetics and Postindustrial Economics: Games of Empire in Suzan Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog Jochen Achilles

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“Dirty Sexy Money”: Commodified Identities and Acts of Consumption in Chirstopher Shinn’s Other People and Where We Come From Sabrina Hüttner

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“How Do You Think We Get to Pottery Barn?” Mainstream Gay Drama, Homonormativity, and the Culture of Neoliberalism Leopold Lippert

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The Amateur Hour: On Value, Personality and the Form of Appearance in the Economy of Attention Giulia Palladini

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Essays Putting Down Parking Lots out There in Unpaved Paradise: Toni Morrison [en]Counters American Cowboy Culture Susan Neal Mayberry 83 Youthful Resentment, Bourgeois (Anti-)Heroism and Sublime Unrest: Conrad’s “The Duel” and Ridley Scott’s The Duellists Flavio Gregori 109

Review Essay Towards a More Human T.S. Eliot: Two New Books Frances Dickey

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Book Reviews Approaches to Teaching Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Tradition edited by Anne J. Cruz (Amy P. Alfieri)139

Summer 2010, Volume 75, Number 3

The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare by William W. E. Slights (Hilary Binda)141 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams edited by Philip C. Kolin (Lori Brister)145  Tratado de la superstición occidental by Alberto Ortiz (María Jesús Zamora Calvo)146 Erasmus and Voltaire: Why They Still Matter by Ricardo J. Quinones (Thomas L. Cooksey)148 Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI edited by Araceli Tinajero (Linda Crawford)151

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry from France edited by Gretchen Schultz (Nancy Sloan Goldberg)153 Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions by Fred Botting (Melissa McLeod)156

Summer 2010, Volume 75, Number 3

William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South by John T. Matthews (Clay Motley)160  Notes on Contributors 163