“A brilliant and unsettling book.”
– Judith Butler, U.C.-Berkeley

“A genuine tour de force.”
– Adrian Daub, Stanford University

“Intelligent, lucid, and elegantly wrought.”
– Spencer Golub, Brown University

“Revelatory . . . . Epiphanic.”
– Joseph Roach, Yale University

“Dazzling.”
– Modern Drama (2023 review)

“Richly detailed and exhaustively researched.”
– Theatre Journal (2023 review)

“Impressive rigor and textual evidence.”
– PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2023 review)

“Immensely erudite, at times electrifying.”
– Journal of Modern Literature (2024 review)

“Virtuosic . . . . luminous.”
– Modernism/modernity (2024 review)

Winner of:
– Helen Tartar First Book Award (2021, American Comparative Literature Association)

Awarded Honorable Mention for:
– Anna Balakian First Book Award (2022, International Comparative Literature Association)

Shortlisted for the following honors:
– First Book Prize (2022, Modernist Studies Association);
– Outstanding Book Award (2022, Association for Theatre in Higher Education);
– Barnard Hewitt Award “for outstanding research in theatre history” (2022, American Society for Theatre Research).

Book Launch Roundtable (2022)
Sponsored by Skidmore College and Johns Hopkins University Press

Participants: Matthew Buckley (Rutgers University), Rebecca Schneider (Brown University), and Matthew Smith (Stanford University), and Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University)