5 The Will to Melodrama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface. A Global Specter vii
4. Introduction. Exporting a Moral Panic 1
5. 1 What We Talk About When We Talk About Cancel Culture 18
6. 2 Word Histories 40
7. 3 The Imagined Campus 62
8. 4 The Neoconservative View 82
9. 5 The Will to Melodrama 96
10. 6 The Techniques of a Panic: Anecdote, Subscription, Essayism 116
11. 7 Cosmopolitan Provincialism: How Cancel Culture Gets Imported 140
12. 8 Cancel Culture Adaptation 161
13. Conclusion. Liberalism and Illiberalism 170
14. Acknowledgments 187
15. Notes 191