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Jonah Siegel

Jonah Siegel is professor of English and codirector of the British Studies Center at Rutgers University. Aside from numerous articles on literature and the fine arts, he is the author of two books—Desire & Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art (2000), and Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition (2005)—and the editor of The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources (2007). He is currently completing two new books, Material Inspirations: The Interest of the Art Object and Beauty and Damage: Essays on Display and Loss. His essay, “War and the Domestic Interior: Pater, Curtius, and Praz in the House of Life” was published in Modern Language Quarterly last year.

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