The Yale Journal of Criticism publishes works of interest to readers in the humanities, irrespective of field or period, including scholarly articles, original art, review essays, polemical interventions, and conference and symposium papers. The journal engages in current methodological debates in literature, history, philosophy, popular culture, and the visual arts. Work from the YJC has appeared in Best American Essays.
Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2005
CONTENTS:
Ahmad, Dohra - "This fundo stuff is really something new": Fundamentalism and Hybridity in The Moor's Last Sigh
Alderman, Nigel - Unity Sublime: The Excursion's Social Self
Claybaugh, Amanda - The Autobiography of a Substitute: Trauma, History, Howells
Cole, Rachel - The Reality Effect: Emerson's Speakers and the Phenomenon of Personality
Kreilkamp, Ivan - Petted Things: Wuthering Heights and the Animal
Puchner, Martin, 1969- - Sade's Theatrical Passions
Townsend, Julie - Synaesthetics: Symbolism, Dance, and the Failure of Metaphor
Whiting, Frederick - Bodies of Evidence: Post-War Detective Fiction and the Monstrous Origins of the Sexual Psychopath
Wickman, Matthew - Terror's Abduction of Experience: A Gothic History
Contributors
In Memorium