Table of Contents
Articles
This Is Not a Screed: An Editorial Introduction
Ted Bain
Editor, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack
Beyond the Boobs: New Political Perspectives on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Wilfred E. Major
Louisiana State University
The American Dream: Communalist Experiment or Materialist Ethos?
Christopher Strain
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University
The Freedom Train and Containment
Louis Scheeder
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Manipulating Sports Injuries: Football’s Frontiersmen and Calcio’s Bella Figura
Clara Orban
DePaul University
This Body of Death: Embodiment in the Romantic Ballet
Robert Bettmann
Director, Blackbird Productions
The Power of Myth in Ramona and Ramona’s Marriage Place
Keith A. Sculle
University of Illinois at Springfield
When Religion Disappears: The Popular Culture of Modern Spiritualism
Sheri Weinstein
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Like Could They Be Any More Shallow? An Analysis of Language and Attitudes and How Friends Made Being Dumb Popular
Susan Burris
Owens Community College
Priscilla Riggle
Truman State University
Andrea Van Vorhis
Bowling Green State University
Owens Community College