... and of academic labor when considered against the backdrop of an unstable neoliberal hegemony, particularly that of the mass automatization and shedding of labor. The essay concludes by considering political and literary examples of collaborative authorship before addressing the question of WReC’s own process...

... of nonhierarchical collaborative authorship and of scholarship that refuses to instrumentalize academic labor. It is a refreshing change to encounter the work of WReC precisely because it wears its politics on its sleeve as it sets out to deflate academic forms of prestige and scholarship. While WReC was founded...

...Marissa Nicosia mon4@psu.edu Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton . By Katie Kadue . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . 227 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Katie Kadue prefaces Domestic Georgic...

... literature became a discrete academic discipline thanks to a drive toward professionalization and specialization that strengthened throughout the Victorian era, but it has generally been assumed that there is little else of note, or to note, about a supposedly...

... intellectual-even academic-practice which seeks to produce better knowledge of the political context of the world, knowl- edge which opens up new and hopefully progressive possibilities of struggle and transformation.”4 In lieu of a fuller account, I shall rely on Reduction...

... of omniscience would be a poor tribute to the achievement of the Modern Language Quarterly during the past twenty-five years. As editor of an academic journal little more than half as old, I salute it and wish it a future congruent with its past. I Let us imagine...

... is peculiar to literary study, what charges relations with the political, with policy, and with public debates, is that the object of our scholarly investigation —  our scholarly labor — is still encountered outside universities. Indeed, academic...

... of the novel’s conception of reality in the Mexican borderlands: first, the Ciudad Juárez femicides as objects of representation; second, the economic conditions underlying the systemic violence perpetrated against female maquiladora workers and the rift between labor and capital; and third, the relation of art...

... was a topic of concern outside academe, too, as news outlets reported on care work and communities rallied around health care workers. In her preface Schaffer remarks: “I’m not used to writing on a topic that is dominating the news. So it was strange for me to discover that care was everywhere in 2020...

... Angeles, London: University o f California Press, 1986. x + 374 pp. $24.95. POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY WOOLF CRITICISM * By JAMES GINDIN The problem with the proliferation of academic books about Virginia Woolf is that they feed...

... of The Cambridge History of American Literature [1994 – 2006], edited by Sacvan Bercovitch). They will also search in vain for many entries on influential academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics, Lionel Trilling, the Yale...

... entries on influential academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics, Lionel Trilling, the Yale deconstructionists, feminist critical theorists — all basically absent. Robert Polito’s piece on F. O. Matthiessen misses most of what...

... by Sacvan Bercovitch). They will also search in vain for many entries on influential academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics, Lionel Trilling, the Yale deconstructionists, feminist critical theorists — all basically...

... academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics, Lionel Trilling, the Yale deconstructionists, feminist critical theorists — all basically absent. Robert Polito’s piece on F. O. Matthiessen misses most of what is important about...

... by Sacvan Bercovitch). They will also search in vain for many entries on influential academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics, Lionel Trilling, the Yale deconstructionists, feminist critical theorists — all basically...

... of The Cambridge History of American Literature [1994 – 2006], edited by Sacvan Bercovitch). They will also search in vain for many entries on influential academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics, Lionel Trilling, the Yale...

... turn to the eight volumes of The Cambridge History of American Literature [1994 – 2006], edited by Sacvan Bercovitch). They will also search in vain for many entries on influential academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics...

... turn to the eight volumes of The Cambridge History of American Literature [1994 – 2006], edited by Sacvan Bercovitch). They will also search in vain for many entries on influential academic literary critics and theorists: Parrington, the New Critics...

... to self-conscious understanding.1 For academics in particular, or perhaps I should simply say for me, the postulation that one’s learning always entails “a kind of agony” is profoundly unsettling, even as the clarity of Rowbotham’s expression provides comfort in my own struggles and failures to learn...

...Patricia Parker Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Preposterous Reversals: Love’s Mar’s Lost Patricia Parker where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and most prepost’rous event. . --Love’s Labor’s Lost t the beginning...