Professor Emeritus
georgeb@umich.eduOffice Information:
4181 Angell Hall
phone: 764-6357
Postcolonial Studies; Emeriti; Modernism; Nineteenth Century British; Twentieth Century American; Romanticism American and British; Twentieth Century British; American; Editorial Theory and Textual Studies; Poetry and Poetics; British; Technology and the Humanities; English
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Princeton 1966
Highlighted Work and Publications
The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
George Bornstein
A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, "The Colors of Zion" argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If what they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current constructions... See More
W.B. Yeats, The Windind Stair and Other Poems
Introduction and notes by George Bornstein
W. B. Yeats's The Winding Stair and Other Poems was published in 1933 when Yeats was sixty-eight, ten years after he won the Nobel Prize and six years before his death in 1939. Yeats famously invoked in "Adam's Curse" the time he spent "stitching and unstitching" the lines of his work, but he also spent considerable time stitching and unstitching his poems to each other. The Winding Stair demonstrates that care, combining and reordering the poems of two earlier publications in an edition intended as the companion volume to The Tower, published...
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