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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 53–63.
Published: 01 March 1969
...EVERETT ZIMMERMAN Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THE FUNCTION OF PARODY IN
NORTHANGER ABBEY
Most studies of Northanger Abbey have noted that the central prob-
lem it poses for the critic is one of unity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (2): 128–132.
Published: 01 June 1959
...J. Burke Severs Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 KEATS’S “MANSION OF MANY APARTMENTS,”
SLEEP AND POETRY, AND TINTERN ABBEY
By J. BURKESEVERS
In a rambling letter to John Hamilton Reynolds...
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 1. William Gilpin, Tintern Abbey on the Wye , 1782 ( O , plate 7). Aquatint, 10 × 17 cm.
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 421–441.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Westminster Abbey and the capitol-like Whitehall—is revisited in Milton’s epic. God expels Adam and Eve from Eden and subsequently washes away the garden during the Flood to prevent it from turning into a temple-and-grove along the lines of Pandaemonium or a capital seat like Charles’s London, in either case...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Austen, whose Northanger Abbey formulates one aspect of novelistic realism precisely through the avoidance of gothic temporality. Jesse Molesworth is assistant professor of English at Indiana University. His book Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic (2010...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (1): 3–20.
Published: 01 March 1971
... be at myn.”
(stanzas 389-91)
This decorous behavior contrasts with that which we see prevailing in
more legitimate communities. At St. Mary’s Abbey, York, dignitaries
plot and quarrel, while guests are treated with insolence; the servants
in the Sheriff...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 33–70.
Published: 01 March 1998
... century, Roche’s
Children of the Abbey (1796) is now rarely read and still more rarely con-
sidered alongside Owenson’s or Edgeworth’s novels in defining the
Anglo-Irish national tale.8 The novel’s generic anonymity-its near dis-
appearance from the literary history of the genre to which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 607–609.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . 2002 . Northanger Abbey . Edited by Grogan Claire . 2nd ed. Peterborough, ON : Broadview . Blumenberg Hans . 1966 . Die Legitimität der Neuzeit . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . Eagleton Terry . 2014 . Culture and the Death of God . New Haven, CT : Yale University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 119–129.
Published: 01 June 1972
...” of grammar in order to use it; he will favor those forms
of expression which can accommodate his bias.
Because his “Tintern Abbey” is both early and representative of his
better work, I shall use the following excerpts as a basis for my remarks:
Five years have past; five summers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 260–280.
Published: 01 September 1976
... unity and unself-conscious repose and the burdens of
fully self-conscious humanity; between the nonconceptual or “felt”
experiences which nourish early childhood (and less frequently survive
as the “sense sublime’’ [“Tintern Abbey,” 951 of one’s later years), and,
011 the contrary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 143–147.
Published: 01 June 1944
...
But Plomer and Cross wonder how Bryskett could lease from White
abbey lands that were then, through Spenser’s conveyance, in the
possession of Synnot.6 Their explanation of this puzzle is surely
wrong. White, they say, had forfeited this property; it was there-
fore not White’s to lease...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (4): 469–493.
Published: 01 December 1999
... a critical and moral
sobriety, is precisely the narrative trope structuring one of the urtexts
of high romanticism, Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” ( 1798).
Elfenbein, Byron and the Victorians (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
’995) 89.
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Hulme, Speculations: Essays on Humanism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 257–271.
Published: 01 September 1974
... of Byron was the world of his childhood:
the Scottish Highlands, Newstead Abbey, Harrow. In his earliest poems
-most of them-in Hours of Idleness-he writes about these places fie-
quently with nostalgia and yearning. The poems on the Scottish High-
lands indicate the origin of his love...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 475–495.
Published: 01 December 1997
... familiar to modern readers, it is con-
venient to start with her. The posthumous novel Northanger Abbey
( 18 18), initially titled Susan, was ready for publication in 1803and was
mostly written in 1798 and 1799; it is, for practical Purposes, the first
Austen novel. Its many references to other...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Figure 1. William Gilpin, Tintern Abbey on the Wye , 1782 ( O , plate 7). Aquatint, 10 × 17 cm. ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 460–463.
Published: 01 December 1972
... that “Tintern Abbey” shows “a man in
his own mood on his own occasion” (p. 30), but it is simply not true. Much of
the criticism in this section of the book is very good, but no one with an
awareness of the literary scene could have written:
The “Presence” spoken of in “Tintern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 381–385.
Published: 01 September 2023
... describes a lyricizing transformation of the inheritance of Miltonic description in Cowper’s Task , “Tintern Abbey,” and Smith’s Beachy Head . In this final phase, Menely argues, “the air itself” was felt to be changing (170), and the emergence of “lyric time” registers the insight that “mineral energy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 393–396.
Published: 01 September 2003
... and the Writing of History, 1670 Ð 1820. By Devoney
Looser. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 272 pp.
The odds are good that even readers unacquainted with Jane Austen’s
Northanger Abbey will have encountered the description of historical study
proffered by its heroine. Catherine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 376–389.
Published: 01 December 1975
...” (“Tintern
Abbey,” 105-106), and thus to recover momentarily the unity of being
which, even in this early composition, Wordsworth associated with the
child’s intuition of oneness.
The announced intention of An Evening Walk reminds us of the
meditative poetry in which Wordsworth seeks...
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