Review: The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theater by Matthew Wilson Smith Available to Purchase

Michael Meeuwis, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, has published essays in Modern Philology, ELH, Victorian Studies, and The Henry James Review. He recently completed Everyone’s Theatre: Literature and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914, which considers theater, literature, and daily life in England and its colonies. He is also completing work on a book tentatively titled “We Want What You Have: Middle-Class Adventures on the London Stage” and starting on another book-length project, “Performing Novels,” on the textual and philosophical history of the novel in light of the phenomenon of novels read out loud and in private.