Criticism, Volume 64, Number 2, Spring 2022

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 64, Number 2, Spring 2022

Moving in the Renaissance: The Rhetorical Ecologies of John Stow's Survey of London and Ben Jonson's "Foot Voyage"
Pauline Reid

Apathy, Political Emotion, and the Politics of Space in Thoreau's Antislavery Writing
Alex Moskowitz

Detectives and Storytellers: On Vulnerability and Care in Leslie Scalapino's Genre Fiction
Nate Mickelson

Look Busy: Chrematistics, Simulated Labor, and Signing for Time
James Dutton

Reviews

Ariana Ruíz on The Sense of Brown by José Esteban Muñoz

Elizabeth Swanson on Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Eileen DiPofi on The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing by Erica Rand