Category: Book Reviews

Disney’s Land by Richard Snow (review)

The phrase is ubiquitous. It is the subject if numerous memes. It adorns construction barriers in Disney’s theme parks. Walt speaks it in “Celebrate the Magic,” a short series of clips that used to precede the fireworks at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. I came across it an article published just today. Moving from the

Teaching, Scholarship, and Literary History

This semester I find myself, even more than usual, thinking about literary history. In addition to a new seminar for English majors, “Disney’s Victorians,” I am teaching the first half of our department’s two-part British literature survey. So while I’m partly in my Victorian wheelhouse, I’m also far afield in British literature from the Middle