Marshall Brown is professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Washington and editor of Modern Language Quarterly. His work has concerned primarily European literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, literary theory (especially the theory of literary history), and music and literature. His previous publications in Critical Inquiry are "Mozart and after: The Revolution in Musical Consciousness," Critical Inquiry 7 (Summer 1981): 689–706, "The Classic Is the Baroque: On the Principle of Wölfflin's Art History," Critical Inquiry 9 (Winter 1982): 379–404, and "Undisciplined Reading: Heinrich Wölfflin’s Passions," Critical Inquiry 44 (Summer 2018): 733–744.