Criticism Volume 50, Number 3, Summer 2008

Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music, and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.

Table of Contents

Of Exhorbitance: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought
Nahum D. Chandler

Picturing Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill and the Invention of a Photographic Public
Irene Tucker

"Whatever Charms is Alien": Self-Substantial Poetics in the Young Man Sonnets
Michael Clune

Shakepeare's "Alien Pen": Self-Substantial Poetics in the Young Man Sonnets
Michael C. Clody

The Abject Textuality of The Secret Agent
Carey James Mickalites