Copyright

Franklin Felsenstein

Published On

2024-03-25

Page Range

pp. 513–590

Language

  • English

Print Length

78 pages

Thirty-One

“No Life Without You”

  • Frank Felsenstein (author)
Mope returns to the Soviet Union after having visited his wife in England, in their time apart, Mope’s work is intermittent and he questions how much use it is to be so far from home, he misses Vera terribly. Vera’s letters are filled with concern for his health and the truth of any health issues she faces. Tensions across the world rise, hinting at the upcoming war, Mope begins to apply for transit visas in the hope of returning to Vera.

Contributors

Frank Felsenstein

(author)
Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Ball State University

Franklin Felsenstein (aka Frank Felsenstein) is the only son of Maurice (“Mope”) and Vera Felsenstein. He is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Ball State University in Indiana. Before that, he was Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds in England. He has also held appointments at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, Vanderbilt University, Yeshiva College, and Drew University. His publications include Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture (1995), English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World (1999), and (with James J. Connolly) What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (2015). He has edited works by Tobias Smollett (Travels through France and Italy), Peter Aram (A Practical Treatise of Flowers), and John Thelwall (Incle and Yarico). He and his family moved to the United States in 1998. He and his wife now live in Chicago.