Criticism, Volume 63, Numbers 1 & 2, Winter–Spring 2021

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 63, Numbers 1&2, Winter–Spring 2021
The Future(s) of Early Modern Women Writers

Beyond Canonicity: The Future(s) of Early Modern Women Writers
Jaime Goodrich and Paula McQuade

Manifestos

Loss and Longevity: Rhetorics and Tactics of Early Modern Women's Writing
Marie-Louise Coolahan

Is There Room for Judith Shakespeare and Her Brother, Too?
Erin A. McCarthy

How Race Might Help Us Find "Lost" Women's Writing
Joyce MacDonald

“Undisciplined”: Early Modern Women's Writing and the Urgency of Scholarly Activism
Kimberly Anne Coles

What Were Women Writers?
Melissa E. Sanchez

Theories, Methods, and Cases

Reading Milton Like a Woman
Sarah Kunjummen

Reading Marguerite de Navarre: An Aged Professor's Meditation
Anne Lake Prescott

Race Thinking in Margaret Cavendish's Drama
Sujata Iyengar

Between Women: Archival and Theoretical Methods in Early Modern Women's Writing
Christopher Shirley

From the Archive to the Classroom

Hidden in Plain Sight: Editing and (Not) Canonizing Early Modern Women's Writing
Paul Salzman

The Renaissance Women's Canon, Past, Present, and Future
Steven W. May

Unconventional Experiments: Teaching Early Modern Women Writers
Victoria E. Burke

Teaching Women Writers in a "Great Books" Program
Micheline White

Utopian Vistas

The Presence of the Now
Patricia Demers

A Small Room with Large Windows 
Sarah C. E. Ross

Reviews

Amy L. Tigner on Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature by Gitanjali G. Shahani

Martine van Elk on Mary Wroth’s Poetry: An Electronic Edition, The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making, and Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition