"This is clearly a scrupulously researched, deeply considered
study. It engages an important topic with a breadth that should
make it uniquely useful to anyone who seeks to understand the
place of the popular theater in the artistic
imagination."--Theatre Journal
"Art as Spectacle is a fascinating scholarly study
that has been in the makings for twenty years. Ritter, thoroughly
familiar with her subject, explores with ease and point
multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary questions revolving
around the abundance of circus figures in modern
literature."--Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"A rich and fascinating book, comparative in the fullest sense,
which has much to offer almost any professional or amateur
student of European literature or of the graphic or performing
arts."--Comparative Literature
