Criticism, Volume 62, Number 3, Summer 2020

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 62, Number 3, Summer 2020

Introduction: Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives
Steven Swarbrick and Karen Raber

Posthumous Community: Erasmus and the Dung Beetle
Benjamin Bertram

Budding Oedipus: The Oedipal Family Tree and King Lear
Vin Nardizzi

Shakespeare's Cognitive Ethology: Bias as Plasticity
Craig Dionne

Renaissance Gorillas
Holly Dugan

Improbable Shepherds: Multispecies Polities and the Afterlife of Pastoral in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy
Julian Yates

After Life in Margaret Cavendish's Vitalist Posthumanism
Liza Blake

After Wetlands
Hillary Eklund

Reviews
John Garrison on Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition by Melissa Sanchez

Dale Townshend on Romantic Shades and Shadows by Susan J. Wolfson

Emily D. Spunaugle on Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain by Joseph Drury