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Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the editor of New Literary History. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Uses of Literature and Literature after Feminism, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.  \nThe University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637  \nThe University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2015 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2015.  \nPrinted in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5  \nISBN-13: 978-0-226-29398-1 (cloth)  \nISBN-13: 978-0-226-29403-2 (paper)  \nISBN-13: 978-0-226-29417-9 (e-book)  \nDOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226294179.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nFelski, Rita, 1956– author.  \nThe limits of critique / Rita Felski.  \npages ; cm  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-226-29398-1 (cloth : alk. paper)  \nISBN 978-0-226-29403-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)  \nISBN 978-0-226-29417-9 (ebook)  \n1. Criticism. 2. Criticism—Methodology. 3. Hermeneutics. 4. Suspicion. I. Title.  \nPN81.F44 2015  \n801′.95—dc23  \n2015010763  \n♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39 .48-1992 (Permanence of Paper) .  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments  \nIntroduction  \n1. The Stakes of Suspicion  \n2. Digging Down and Standing Back  \n3. An Inspector Calls  \n4. Crrritique  \n5.“Context Stinks!”  \nIn Short  \nNotes  \nIndex  \nAcknowledgments  \nWriting this book would have been much harder if friends and colleagues had not taken time out of their busy lives to offer comments, suggestions, and encouragement—in some cases, writing eloquent mini-essays that deserve publication in their own right. Thanks to Jeffrey Alexander, Elizabeth Anker, Timothy Aubry, Marshall Brown, Russ Castronovo, Claire Colebrook, Jim English, Winfried Fluck, David Glimp, Frank Kelleter, Bruno Latour, Victor Li, Heather Love, Ronan McDonald, John Michael, Tom O’Regan, Oana Panaite, Brad Pasanek, Andrew Piper, Robert Pippin, Ronald Schleifer, James Simpson, Simon Stern, Bill Warner, Chad Wellmon, and Jeffrey Williams. I owe a special debt to Toril Moi for her remarkable intellectual and personal generosity and her critical acumen, and to Allan Megill for detailed comments, exceptional patience, and much else besides.  \nI am grateful to everyone who invited me to test the ideas of this book in lecture form, especially to Amanda Anderson and Donald Pease. An early invitation to speak to the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia was especially helpful in steering me away from several cliffs.  \nOther friends who have provided much-needed encouragement, advice, and good conversation include Cassandra Fraser, Susan Stanford Friedman, Michael Levenson, Ekaterina Makarova, John Portmann, and Sophie Rosenfeld, as well as my friends and fellow editors at New Literary History, Susan Fraiman, Kevin Hart, Krishan Kumar, Jahan Ramazani, Chip Tucker, and Mollie Washburne. Amy Elkins was a very able research assistant during the early stages of this project. My daughter, Maria, kept me sane.  \nI am deeply grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation for research support and also for research leave made possible by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia. My thanks are also due to Alan Thomas for his very astute advice and his steady support of this project and to India Cooper for her careful and sensitive copy editing.  \n• • •  \nA few sections of the argument were first published, often in rather different form, as follows: “Critique and Hermeneutics of Suspicion,” from media/culture 15, no. 1 (2012), contains material scattered across the  \nintroduction and chapters 1 and 4; parts of “Suspicious Minds,” from Poetics Today 32, no. 2 (2011), appear in chapters 1 and 3; “Digging Down and Standing Back,” from English Language Notes","cbCailqbEFaPfTl2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailqbEFaPfTl2","pdf",1703236,533,"English","# Acknowledgments\n# Introduction\n## 1. The Stakes of Suspicion\n## 2. 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