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Joseph Adamson

Title: Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

Institution: McMaster University

Discipline: Literature & Writing

Appearances: 1

Notable: Co-editor (with Jean Wilson) of The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, vol. 18 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye; author of four books on literary criticism and psychoanalytic approaches to literature

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Joseph Adamson is a scholar of English and comparative literature specializing in literary theory, nineteenth and twentieth-century fiction and poetry, and the intersection of literature with psychoanalytic concepts of shame and affect. He is the author of Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life and Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye, and co-editor of Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing.

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