Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Criticism for the Whole Person Aarthi Vadde Saikat Majumdar 1
Part 1 The Amateur Impulse
1 In Praise of Amateurism Derek Attridge 31
2 In the Shadow of the Archive Tom Lutz 49
3 "It's All Very Suggestive, but It Isn't Scholarship" Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan 63
4 Beyond Professionalism: The Pasts and Futures of Creative Criticism Peter D. McDonald 85
Part 2 The Amateur in the Age of Professionalization
5 Leavis, Richards, and the Duplicators Christopher Milliard 109
6 The Critic as Rasik: Pramatha Chaudhuri, Tagore, and the New Language of Literary Writing Rosinka Chaudhuri 129
7 The Sophisticated Amateur: Vernon Lee versus the Vital Liars Mimi Winick 151
Part 3 The Critic as Amateur in Old and New Media
8 Dorothy Richardson and Close Up: Amateur and Professional Exchanges in Film Culture Zlatina Nikolova Chris Townsend 181
9 New Judgments: Literary Criticism on Air Emily Bloom 201
10 The Small Press and the Feminist Critic Melanie Mich 221
Epilogue: New, Interesting, and Original-the Undergraduate as Amateur Kara Wittman 243
Index 265