Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Modern Drama/Modernity’s Drama 3
5. Aesthetic Prejudice in Modern Drama 15
6. Why Modern Plays Are Not Culture: Disciplinary Blind Spots 29
7. Quo Vadis? Theatre Studies at the Crossroads 48
8. Physiologies of the Modern: Zola, Experimental Medicine, and the Naturalist Stage 67
9. Making Sense of Sensation: Enlightenment, Embodiment, and the End(s) of Modern Drama 80
10. Luminous Writing, Embodiment, and Modern Drama: Mme Blavatsky and Bertolt Brecht 102
11. The Haunted Houses of Modernity 117
12. Hauntings: Anxiety, Technology, and Gender in Peter Pan 128
13. Bodies, Revolutions, and Magic: Cultural Nationalism and Racial Fetishism 144
14. Modernism and Genocide: Citing Minstrelsy in Postcolonial Agitprop 162
15. August Wilson, Doubling, Madness, and Modern African-American Drama 173
16. Works Cited 193
17. Works Cited 209