Volume 4, Issue 1

Enlightenment Scholarship by the Numbers: dfr.jstor.org, Dirty Quantification, and the Future of the Lit Review

Dan Edelstein

The Political Walter Benjamin, a Review Essay

Nitzan Lebovic

Alkaline Recapitulation: Haeckel's Hypothesis and the Afterlife of a Concept

Knox Peden

Introduction: The Essay; An Attempt, a Protean Form

Denise Gigante

Reverie and Ambush: On the Influence of Montaigne

Sarah Bakewell

"Such Opinions Cannot Cohere": Swift's Inwardness

Sophie Gee

Orwell and the Essay Form: Two Case Studies

Alex Woloch

The Essayistic Novel and Mode of Life: Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities

Thomas Harrison

No Success Like Failure: Borges inside the Essay

Michael Wood

Essay, Life, Lived Experience: The Early Georg Lukacs and the Situation of Literary Criticism Today

Further Readings on the Essay

Mary Kim