Professor Hye-Joon Yoon of the English Department, College of Liberal Arts, and the Comparative Literature and Culture program of Underwood International College has published Metropolis and Experience: Defoe, Dickens, Joyce, which offers a close reading of the major texts of Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce, in their respective historical contexts and in comparison with their intertextual companions from seventeenth-century character pamphlets through Baudelaire to Calvino. In doing so, his book challenges the quietist complacency of specialization prevalent in current academia to contribute to a critique of urban modernity in the tradition of Simmel, Benjamin, and Lefebvre. His investigation of the interconnections between the metropolis, experience, and the novel takes place in tandem with a sustained query on non-literary subtopics such as finance capitalism and urban class antagonism. This is literary criticism charged with relevance for the age of Occupy Wall Street.