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ABSTRACT
This introduction sets the essays in the special issue into context, and reflects on Laura Marcus’s contribution both to the development of literary criticism over the last three decades, and to the institutional history of the discipline.
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Notes
1 Laura Marcus, personal correspondence with the author, August 5, 2021.
2 Laura Marcus, The Tenth Muse: Writing About Cinema in the Modernist Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 367.
3 Samuel Beckett, Watt (London: Calder, 1976), p. 247.
4 Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 137.
5 Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 106.
6 Woolf, To the Lighthouse, p. 106.
7 Santanu Das and George Potts, ‘Laura Marcus (7 March 1956–22 September 2021)’, Critical Quarterly, 64.1 (2022), pp. 3–26.
8 Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 171.
9 Laura Marcus, Virginia Woolf (Tavistock: Northcote House, 2004), second edition, p. 103.