The Cooper Union
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences








DAVID WEIR
Professor

(212) 353-4274
weir@cooper.edu

Recent Books
Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of
Modernism (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture)


Decadent Culture in the United States: Art and
Literature Against the American Grain, 1890-1926


Brahma in the West: William Blake
and the Oriental Renaissance


Decadence and the Making of Modernism

 
 

David Weir received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. He has taught there and at The New School University. Since 1986 he has been teaching at Cooper Union. He is the author of Decadence and the Making of Modernism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), James Joyce and the Art of Mediation (University of Michigan Press, 1996), Anarchy and Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), and Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance (State University of New York Press, 2003).


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