Joe Drury and the Postcritical Eighteenth Century
Joe Drury recently wrote an introduction for a forum on "The Postcritical Eighteenth Century," which was just published in the new volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture . The forum emerged out of a panel Drury organized at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Orlando. The articles explore the possibilities opened up for scholars of eighteenth-century literature by the recent "postcritical turn" in literary studies. According to Drury's introduction, the term "postcritical" was coined by Rita Felski in 2015, as a "catch-all for a group of recent methodological interventions and experiments in literary studies" which "spring from a widespread dissatisfaction with the mode of critique initiated by Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche and retooled for literary analysis by the successive waves of Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, new historicist, feminist, and queer criticism to...