Criticism, Volume 61, Number 1, Winter 2019

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.

Criticism Volume 61, Number 1, Winter 2019

My Chapter Upon Lines: Motion, Deviation, and Lineation in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics
Scott R. MacKenzie

Mood, Provisionality, and Planetarity in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Enit Karafili Steiner

Modernism as Gesture: The Experience of Music, Samuel Beckett, and Performed Bewilderment
Ronald Schleifer

Lyric Noise: Lisa Robertson, Claudia Rankine, and the Phatic Subject of Poetry in the Mass Public Sphere
Andrew Gorin

Reviews

Elizabeth Duquette on Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century by J. Michelle Coghlan

Matt Seybold on Poet-Critics and The Administration of Culture by Evan Kindley

Eliza Steinbock on Cinema’s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating by Scott C. Richmond