Criticism special issue: Theories of the Nineteenth Century

V21Collective special issue of Criticism 

published May 2020!

Theories of the Nineteenth Century
Vol. 61, No. 4, Fall 2019

guest edited by Zach Samalin and Anna Kornbluh

Introduction: A Map the Size of the Empire (Samalin)

What Does It Mean to Periodize a Theory? Three Feminist Encounters with Theories of the Nineteenth Century (Kathy Psomiades)

Beyond Urgency: Shadow Presentisms, Hinge Points, and Victorian Historicisms (Eleanor Courtemanche)

Toward an Inessential Theory of Form: Ruskin, Warburg, Focillon (S. Pearl Brilmyer and Filippo Trentin)

To Write Like a Dream: Nineteenth-Century Legacies (Ankhi Mukherjee)

Historicizing the Theorization of Race: A Nineteenth-Century Story (Irene Tucker)

Let them Sink into the Sea: Free-Trade Empire and a Hermeneutics of Disconnection (Chris Taylor)

Reading for the Political Plot: A Genealogy of Disaffection (Tanya Agathocleous)

Conclusion: Theory Presents (Kornbluh)

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