Recent studies in the Nineteenth Century.(Critical Essay) From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Elfenbein, Andrew | COPYRIGHT 2002 Rice University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Inevitably, my fantasies about this reviewing process (serene quiet; leisurely contemplation; pithy condensations of evaluative wisdom) have come up against tougher realities (hectic schedules; huddled masses of books; sinking feelings of arbitrariness). I have become particularly aware of how meager a metavocabulary we have for describing the act of critical evaluation itself, on which we nevertheless depend as a discipline. "Objective," "subjective," "neutral," "engaged": these ...

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