Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life--and our attempts to know both art and politics. Inescapable and fre "A path-clearing work that could easily open up the space for further New Formalist thinking--on modernism and beyond."---Adam Guy, Notes and Queries