Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Criticism for the Whole Person”
Aarthi Vadde (Duke University, USA) with Saikat Majumdar (Ashoka University, India)Part I: THE AMATEUR IMPULSE
1. In Praise of Amateurism
Derek Attridge (University of York, UK)
2. In the Shadow of the Archive
Tom Lutz (Founder and Editor of Los Angeles Review of Books)
3. "It’s All Very Suggestive, but It Isn’t Scholarship"
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (University of Arizona, USA)
4. Beyond Professionalism: The Pasts and Futures of Creative Criticism
Peter D. McDonald (Oxford University, UK)Part II: THE AMATEUR IN THE AGE OF PROFESSIONALIZATION
5. Leavis, Richards, and the Duplicators
Christopher Hilliard (University of Sydney, Australia)
6. The Critic as Rasik: Pramatha Chaudhuri, Tagore, and the New Language of Literary Writing
Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India)
7. The Sophisticated Amateur: Vernon Lee versus the Vital Liars
Mimi Winick (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)Part III: 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 (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
9. New Judgments: Literary Criticism on Air
Emily C. Bloom (Columbia University, USA)
10. The Small Press and the Feminist Critic
Melanie Micir (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)EPILOGUE: New, Interesting, and Original: The Undergraduate as Amateur
Kara Wittman (Pomona College, USA)
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index