Rochelle Rives is Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. She is the author of Modernist Impersonalities: Affect Authority, and the Subject (2012) and The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Fiction, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press in Spring 2024.
Rochelle Rives
Contributions
Judging by its Cover, Part 2
The first section of “Judging by its Cover” consists of pieces that are interested in the cover as a form of compensation, a covering over, as a piece of gorgeous textile can mask or stand in for what one doesn’t want to confront, or what can’t be confronted for whatever nefarious, oblivious, or self-deceptive reason.