Christopher Lane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Lane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Lane |
| SIGNATURE | LANE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2945-9352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Structure, functions, performance and gaps of event-based surveillance (EBS) in Sudan, 2021
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Analysis Terminable and Postponed
Mania
Book Review| April 01 2012 Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder Healy, David, Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 296 pp. Christopher Lane Christopher Lane Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 373–374. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1545157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site …
Lewis Carroll and psychoanalysis
Each generation of psychoanalyst has found different things to value and sometimes to censure in Lewis Carroll's remarkable fiction and flights of fancy. But what does Carroll's almost 'surrealist' perspective in the Alice stories tell us about the rituals and symbols that govern life beyond Wonderland and Looking-Glass World? Arguing that Carroll's strong interest in meaning and nonsense in these and later works helps make the world strange to r…
Christopher Lane's Response to Robin L. Cautin's review of Christopher Lane's book, Shyness
Improving the long-term sustainability of health aid
Over the last decade development assistance for health has more than doubled. This increase provides an unprecedented opportunity to scale up health services, and in doing so, achieve the health Millennium Development Goals. However, sustaining scaling up will in turn require sustainable donor support until domestic health financing can substitute for it. The provision of long-term predictable finance is of particular concern in health because th…
The Surprising History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
The history of passive-aggressive personality disorder (PAPD) reveals many things about American psychiatry, including how its use and understanding of diagnostic categories have in recent decades changed. The disorder is thus a useful litmus test for establishing whether categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) have undergone a type of “diagnostic bracket creep” (Peter Kramer's term) with significant effects…
Hatred and Civility
To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled snobbery, it has above all become synonymous with self-sacrifice, earnest devotion, and moral rectitude. Yet this idealized version of Victorian England is surprisingly scarce in the period's literature--and its journalism, sermons, p…
How Shyness Became an Illness
Research Article| August 01 2006 How Shyness Became an Illness: A Brief History of Social Phobia Christopher Lane Christopher Lane Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (3): 388–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2006-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Lane; How Shyness Became an Illness: A Brief History of Social Phobia. Common Knowledge 1 Au…
Hatred & civility
To understand hatred and incivility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled snobbery, it has above all become synonymous with self-sacrifice, earnest devotion, and moral rectitude. Yet this idealized vision of Victorian England is surprisingly scarce in the period's literature - and its journalism, sermons,…
Bulwer's Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy
Twenty-one-years old, intent on writing a "History of the British Public," Edward Lytton Bulwer feared in 1824 that the destruction of social values, including sympathy, would spawn widespread misery. Time and experience only intensified this concern. Having come to doubt that the "age of [...] reconstruct[ion]" would redress cultural misery and reform, Bulwer later revised his precocious argument. 1 In April 1863, for example, Bulwer, now aged s…
The Burdens of Intimacy
Why does passion bewilder and torment so many Victorian protagonists? And why do so many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their deaths? This text shows why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy. Examining works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that were undermining the utilitarian eth…
Dispensing with the Self
The Voided Role
The Voided Role: On Genet Christopher Lane Que je me vide! —Genet, Les Bonnes 38 It wasn’t easy, or any fun, being obliged to live up to one’s image. —Genet, Splendid’s 41 Genet criticism seems increasingly concerned with identifying the transgressive potential of Jean Genet’s life and works. We now hear regularly that Genet critiqued authenticity and coherent identities; that he emphasized the volatile proximity between dramatic characters and f…
The Impossibility of Seduction in James's Roderick Hudson and The Tragic Muse
The Crimes of Virtue and the Love of Aversion
American Imago - Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 1996
The Drama of the Impostor
Eccentricity is unbridled, wild and blind. It is the revolt of the individual against the established order, sometimes against nature: here we approach mania. Dandyism on the contrary, while still respecting the conventionalities, plays with them. While admitting their power, it suffers from and avenges itself upon them, and pleads them as an excuse against themselves; dominates and is dominated by them in turn-double and mutable character
The Delirium of Interpretation
Research Article| July 01 1993 "The Delirium of Interpretation": Writing the Papin Affair Christopher Lane Christopher Lane Christopher Lane is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has contributed to Literature Interpretation Theory, Contemporary Literature, and Discourse, and is the author of "The Ruling Passion: Modern Homosexual Allegory and the Rhetoric of Colonial Fantasy" (f…
How Shyness Became an Illness
Research Article| August 01 2006 How Shyness Became an Illness: A Brief History of Social Phobia Christopher Lane Christopher Lane Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (3): 388–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2006-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Lane; How Shyness Became an Illness: A Brief History of Social Phobia. Common Knowledge 1 Au…
Lewis Carroll and psychoanalysis
Each generation of psychoanalyst has found different things to value and sometimes to censure in Lewis Carroll's remarkable fiction and flights of fancy. But what does Carroll's almost 'surrealist' perspective in the Alice stories tell us about the rituals and symbols that govern life beyond Wonderland and Looking-Glass World? Arguing that Carroll's strong interest in meaning and nonsense in these and later works helps make the world strange to r…
The Drama of the Impostor
Eccentricity is unbridled, wild and blind. It is the revolt of the individual against the established order, sometimes against nature: here we approach mania. Dandyism on the contrary, while still respecting the conventionalities, plays with them. While admitting their power, it suffers from and avenges itself upon them, and pleads them as an excuse against themselves; dominates and is dominated by them in turn-double and mutable character
The Delirium of Interpretation
Research Article| July 01 1993 "The Delirium of Interpretation": Writing the Papin Affair Christopher Lane Christopher Lane Christopher Lane is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has contributed to Literature Interpretation Theory, Contemporary Literature, and Discourse, and is the author of "The Ruling Passion: Modern Homosexual Allegory and the Rhetoric of Colonial Fantasy" (f…
The Drama of the Impostor
Eccentricity is unbridled, wild and blind. It is the revolt of the individual against the established order, sometimes against nature: here we approach mania. Dandyism on the contrary, while still respecting the conventionalities, plays with them. While admitting their power, it suffers from and avenges itself upon them, and pleads them as an excuse against themselves; dominates and is dominated by them in turn-double and mutable character
The Impossibility of Seduction in James's Roderick Hudson and The Tragic Muse
The Crimes of Virtue and the Love of Aversion
American Imago - Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 1996
The Voided Role
The Voided Role: On Genet Christopher Lane Que je me vide! —Genet, Les Bonnes 38 It wasn’t easy, or any fun, being obliged to live up to one’s image. —Genet, Splendid’s 41 Genet criticism seems increasingly concerned with identifying the transgressive potential of Jean Genet’s life and works. We now hear regularly that Genet critiqued authenticity and coherent identities; that he emphasized the volatile proximity between dramatic characters and f…
Dispensing with the Self
The Burdens of Intimacy
Why does passion bewilder and torment so many Victorian protagonists? And why do so many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their deaths? This text shows why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy. Examining works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that were undermining the utilitarian eth…
Bulwer's Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy
Twenty-one-years old, intent on writing a "History of the British Public," Edward Lytton Bulwer feared in 1824 that the destruction of social values, including sympathy, would spawn widespread misery. Time and experience only intensified this concern. Having come to doubt that the "age of [...] reconstruct[ion]" would redress cultural misery and reform, Bulwer later revised his precocious argument. 1 In April 1863, for example, Bulwer, now aged s…
Hatred & civility
To understand hatred and incivility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled snobbery, it has above all become synonymous with self-sacrifice, earnest devotion, and moral rectitude. Yet this idealized vision of Victorian England is surprisingly scarce in the period's literature - and its journalism, sermons,…
Hatred and Civility
To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled snobbery, it has above all become synonymous with self-sacrifice, earnest devotion, and moral rectitude. Yet this idealized version of Victorian England is surprisingly scarce in the period's literature--and its journalism, sermons, p…
How Shyness Became an Illness
Research Article| August 01 2006 How Shyness Became an Illness: A Brief History of Social Phobia Christopher Lane Christopher Lane Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (3): 388–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2006-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Lane; How Shyness Became an Illness: A Brief History of Social Phobia. Common Knowledge 1 Au…
The Surprising History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
The history of passive-aggressive personality disorder (PAPD) reveals many things about American psychiatry, including how its use and understanding of diagnostic categories have in recent decades changed. The disorder is thus a useful litmus test for establishing whether categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) have undergone a type of “diagnostic bracket creep” (Peter Kramer's term) with significant effects…
Christopher Lane's Response to Robin L. Cautin's review of Christopher Lane's book, Shyness
Improving the long-term sustainability of health aid
Over the last decade development assistance for health has more than doubled. This increase provides an unprecedented opportunity to scale up health services, and in doing so, achieve the health Millennium Development Goals. However, sustaining scaling up will in turn require sustainable donor support until domestic health financing can substitute for it. The provision of long-term predictable finance is of particular concern in health because th…
Lewis Carroll and psychoanalysis
Each generation of psychoanalyst has found different things to value and sometimes to censure in Lewis Carroll's remarkable fiction and flights of fancy. But what does Carroll's almost 'surrealist' perspective in the Alice stories tell us about the rituals and symbols that govern life beyond Wonderland and Looking-Glass World? Arguing that Carroll's strong interest in meaning and nonsense in these and later works helps make the world strange to r…
Mania
Book Review| April 01 2012 Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder Healy, David, Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 296 pp. Christopher Lane Christopher Lane Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 373–374. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1545157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site …
Analysis Terminable and Postponed
Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle
Structure, functions, performance and gaps of event-based surveillance (EBS) in Sudan, 2021
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