Criticism, Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2004

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 46, Number 2, Spring 2004
When Is A Public Sphere?
Guest Editors Joseph Loewenstein and Paul Stevens

Introduction: Charting Habermas’s “Literary” or “Precursor” Public Sphere
Joseph Loewenstein and Paul Stevens

Public Sphere/Contact Zone: Habermas, Early Print, and Verse Translation
A.E.B. Coldiron

Women, the Republic of Letters, and the Public Sphere in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
David Norbrook

The Bourgeois Public Sphere and the Concept of Literature
Kevin Pask

How Music Created a Public
Harold Love

Parsing Habermas’s “Bourgeois Public Sphere”
Michael McKeon

REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS

Interpreting Communities: Private Acts and Public Culture in Early Modern England
Nicholas McDowell 

Ethical and Aesthetic Alterity
Nancy Moore Goslee 

“Antitheatrical Theatricalism” on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage 
Marjean D. Purinton 

Forms of Dissent
Jennifer Richards