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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (4): 422–424.
Published: 01 December 1978
... since Geoffrey Tillotson, the distinguished English
scholar, died in the midst of his work on the Victorian volume of the Oxford
History of English Literature. The partial manuscripts in the hands of Ox-
ford University Press at the time have here been edited by Tillotson’s
equally...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (2): 237–261.
Published: 01 June 1993
...Steve Dillon Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Archaeology of Victorian Literature
Steve Dillon
It could be argued, and in part will be, that the Victorian period is
the on4 literary period. Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge so thor-
oughly obliterates our...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 375–377.
Published: 01 September 1946
...
Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature for the Thirteen
Years, 1932-1944. Edited by WILLIAMD. TEMPLEMAN.Urbana :
University of Illinois Press, 1945. Pp. 1-450. $5.00.
Students of Victorian literature will welcome this volume with
open arms, with cries of joy, with shrieks of delight...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 237–240.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Nicholas T Rinehart Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature . By Hack Daniel . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 . xiii + 284 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Daniel Hack’s new book is a story about...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 81–83.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Sierra Eckert sceckert@princeton.edu Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style . By Simon Reader . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2021 . ix + 238 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Simon Reader’s Notework is as much about...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 317–319.
Published: 01 September 1979
..., and three important journals
were launched-Household Words, The Gem, and The Red Republican (which
published the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto in 1850). But
such a list is the stuff that introductory courses in Victorian literature, not full-
length studies, are made...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 71–73.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Carolyn Betensky betensky@uri.edu Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture . By Alistair Robinson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . xi + 254 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 June 2014
... professor of literature at the University of Sydney (and a figure central to the direction of the humanities academy in Australia), taught Victorian literature, including Browning, from the 1890s. MacCallum’s public lectures, like his pedagogy, aimed to convert a primary obstacle for many readers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and literature. The essay suggests that global religion remains absent from the field in consequence of how certain nineteenth-century ideas structure Victorian studies: for example, the treatment of religion as a fairly stable category that indexes an author’s or a text’s nationality and even aesthetic value...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Zoe Beenstock H. G. Wells’s diverse works of literature and political theory make him a test case for lines of intersection between modernity and the Enlightenment, a period concerned with the relations between the two genres. Traditionally, studies of Wells go back only as far as Victorianism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 374–375.
Published: 01 September 1946
....
GEORGEF. REYNOLDS
University of:Colorado
Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature for the Thirteen
Years, 1932-1944. Edited by WILLIAMD. TEMPLEMAN.Urbana :
University of Illinois Press, 1945. Pp. 1-450. $5.00.
Students of Victorian literature will welcome this volume...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 400–403.
Published: 01 December 1981
...
that Kossetti specialists will read; it is a book with much that a general student
of Victorian literature and of Pre-Kaphaelite poetry will find valuable.
D. M. K. BENTLEY
University of Western Ontario
The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 390–394.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and author of Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll (1974) and Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art of Self-Postponement (1983). She is also editor of Approaches to Teaching Eliot's “Middlemarch” (1990) and a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 395–410.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Victorians who are normally the proprietary claims of scholars in fields other than religious history, historical theology, or religious studies. What I found in the recent secondary literature was that a woeful number of flat-out false statements and hopelessly garbled discussions related to biblical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 272–276.
Published: 01 June 2016
... to Literature” that accentuated evolutionary, “continuous processes of development” (117, 116). Its course titles showed the apparent difference from period courses like “Romantic” or “Victorian” literature: thus “The Origin of the English Novel,” “The Development of the Essay,” “The Transition from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (1): 79–81.
Published: 01 March 1989
..., include serious students of Victorian literature.
As a contribution to social history, then, Affairs ofthe Hearth has some
things to tell us. It notes, for example, that Clough’s Bothie (which Edmond
insistently refers to by its original, inadvertently bawdy title, presumably
because he deals...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 281–313.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Practice .” MLQ 75 , no. 2 : 279 – 96 . Dunstan Angela . 2019 . “ ‘The Newest Culte’: Victorian Poetry and the Literary Societies of the 1880s .” In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1880s , edited by Fielding Penny and Taylor Andrew , 35 – 79 . Cambridge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 239–257.
Published: 01 June 2014
... about literature in mid-Victorian Oxford is both anomalous
and instructive. It is anomalous because the university’s resistance to
the tertiary study of English literature is by now a cliché in histories of
the discipline (see Bacon 1980); it is instructive...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 297–316.
Published: 01 June 2014
...-perfection and a means of managerial social planning, and a
balance was struck between these inward and outward domains by
the aesthetic cultivation of sympathies that study of the best literature
would promote. Such a synthesis proved viable in Victorian England
only because the ground had been laid...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 403–404.
Published: 01 December 1962
... writer’s place in literary history
will drive away all but the most zealous specialists. And yet we all agree on
the necessity of knowing more about those figures who round out a literary
period. Who, for instance, can pretend to be competent in Victorian literature
without some knowledge...
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