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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 207–220.
Published: 01 June 1995
..., and English at Brown University. Coauthor (with Nancy Armstrong) of The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (1992), he is working on a book about American sentimentalism. American Literary History in the Age
of Critical Theory and Multiculturalism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... .” GLQ 14 , nos. 2–3 : 191 – 215 . In all, Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture is a detailed examination of its archive, with insightful and sustained close readings that animate the transhuman potentiality of angelic figures. It will interest not only queer theorists...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 240–241.
Published: 01 June 1943
...George W. Umphrey Arturo Torres-Ríoseco. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 279. $2.25. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 240 Reviews
The Epic of Latin-American Literature. By ARTUROTORRES-
RfosEco. New York : Oxford University Press...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 339–341.
Published: 01 September 1994
...Dana D. Nelson Sundquist Eric. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1993. ix + 705 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Nelson I Review 339
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. By Eric Sund-
quist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 189–196.
Published: 01 June 1995
... pp. $69.95.
However one defines American literature, and disagreements per-
sist, the study of it in colleges and universities seems always to
have been more closely linked to changes in critical theory-to have
generated some and participated in all-than has that of English lit...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 197–206.
Published: 01 June 1995
... of the narrative histo-
ries and encyclopedias of his predecessors.
All previous histories of American literature have been either totalizing
or encyclopedic. They have offered either the magisterial sweep of‘ a
single vision or a multitude of terse accounts that come to seem just...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (2): 192–196.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Brook Thomas Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction . By Philip Fisher. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 290 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.2-04 Reviews 4/20/01 3:02 PM Page 189
Reviews...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Emily K. Bald Reference Dimock Wai Chee . 2008 . Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . The book’s chief source of strength—its breadth—is also its weakness. With so much ground to cover, Gunn has to run...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 73–74.
Published: 01 March 1956
... of all levels of
sophistication. This thesis is fully borne out by his survey of the large body of
twentieth-century English and American poetry, fiction, and drama using
Arthurian characters and motifs. Careful attention is paid to the Arthurian
writings of Thomas Hardy, John...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 415–432.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is typicality, which claims to broaden the significance of what might seem merely particular. This definition of realism illuminates two pioneering works of Asian American literature. Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston, despite their many differences, both engage in the realist project of overcoming...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 December 2013
... the directions of “transnational” American studies today. The Global Remapping of American Literature . By Giles Paul . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2011 . xi + 325 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reference Gillman Susan Gruesz Kirsten Silva...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (4): 552–555.
Published: 01 December 2002
...Paula Rabinowitz New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State . By Michael Szalay. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,2000. 343 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews
Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. By Diana de Armas Wilson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 320–322.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Elisa Tamarkin Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 . By Paul Giles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 262 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Elisa Tamarkin is assistant professor of English...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 569–572.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Paul Giles Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time . By Wai Chee Dimock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 243 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Paul Giles is professor of American literature at Oxford University. His most recent book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and American Literature, 1893-1945 . By Colleen Lye. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. x + 342 pp. Reviews
Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage.
By Gail Kern Paster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
xv + 274 pp.
In 1993 Gail Kern Paster’s Body...
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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
... by University of Washington 2017 twentieth-century American literature Hollywood cinema media studies F. Scott Fitzgerald institutions Have you noticed the trend of recent literature? . . . More and more plots are being written with the movies in mind . Authors are becoming canny. Why not kill...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 369–373.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Marcy J. Dinius [email protected] To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship . By McHenry Elizabeth . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . xv + 295 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Elizabeth...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11426431.
Published: 18 September 2024
...Claudia Stokes [email protected] Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System . By Morgan Day Frank . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . xvii + 342 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Schools of Fiction...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 519–521.
Published: 01 December 1998
...Mark Patterson Shirley Samuels. Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence an the Literature of the Early American Nation . New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii + 198 pp. $39.95. © 1998 University of Washington 1998 Patterson I Review...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 567–569.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Daniel T. O'Hara Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature . By Paul Giles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 419 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Daniel T. O'Hara is professor of English and First Mellon Term Professor of Humanities...
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