Best & Marcus

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Stephen Best & Sharon Marcus	Stephen Best & Sharon Marcus
 	
Born 	Best b. 1969
Marcus b. 1966
Relevant Work 	Surface Reading
Pages 	
2606-2619
(NATC, 3rd ed.)
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== Biography ==
Sharon Marcus was born in 1966 in Queens, New York and received her B.A. from Brown University in 1986 and a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in 1995. Marcus focused on nineteenth-century British and French literature and culture. From 1994-2003, she taught at UC Berkeley and then at Columbia University in 2003. 
Stephen Best was born in 1969 and received his B.A. from Williams College in 1989 and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1997 respectively. Best focused on law and African American literature and history. He is on the editorial board of a major critical journal affiliated with UC Berkeley called Representations. 
==from Surface Reading==
=== Background and Historical Context === 
=== Key Words and Terms ===
* Symptomatic Reading
* Surface Reading
=== Key Quotations ===
* "Instead of turning to literature for models of how to overcome constraint, or for a right way to live under capital, or to register the difference between our critical freedom and the limits placed on others, we are interested in how to register the ways that constraints structure existence as much as breaking free of them does" (NATC 3rd ed. 2617). 
=== Discussion === 
=== Major Criticism and Reception ===
As the NATC 3rd ed. points out, critics from the left have argued that surface reading "expresses a kind of resignation to the corporatized university" (2605). Many critics maintain the importance of symptomatic reading and speculative methods for reading and argue that surface reading might end up to be just an "accumulation of mere information" (2605). 
== Bibliography ==
* The Fugitive's Property: Law and the Poetics of Possession (2004) - S. Best
* Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (1999) - S. Marcus
* Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007) - S. Marcus
== See Also ==
* Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick
* Bruno Latour
== References ==
* Leitch, Vincent B., editor. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 3rd ed., W.W. Norton & Co., 2018.