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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and of academic labor when considered against the backdrop of an unstable neoliberal hegemony, particularly that of the mass automatization and shedding of labor. The essay concludes by considering political and literary examples of collaborative authorship before addressing the question of WReC’s own process...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11521198.
Published: 28 January 2025
... activities in their contracts. As I have argued elsewhere with Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune, scholarship is being intentionally unbundled from teaching as part of the casualization, deskilling, and gigi cation of academic labor pursued by administrators of the neoliberal university, by educational...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 553–566.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of nonhierarchical collaborative authorship and of scholarship that refuses to instrumentalize academic labor. It is a refreshing change to encounter the work of WReC precisely because it wears its politics on its sleeve as it sets out to deflate academic forms of prestige and scholarship. While WReC was founded...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 June 2024
... for a large part of the professoriate have evaporated. The American Association of University Professors defined these protections long ago in terms of shared governance, academic freedom, and tenure. The severe diminishment of a labor market for tenured or tenure-track jobs has cut off access to parts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 317–325.
Published: 01 June 2014
... I made that call at the MLA convention for Victorianists to direct their scholarly gazes on the establishing phases of the discipline in which they currently labor, I was speaking from the standpoint of someone who has been working for the past ten years...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11521222.
Published: 28 January 2025
... Kramnick gets is his insistence that close reading is writing: not the contemplative reception of words on the page but the creative act of making something new. He describes this act in guratively physical ways that remind us that writing is literally manual labor; close reading involves not so much...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and the kitchen storeroom in Milton’s tract, I cannot unsee it, and I experienced this delightful sensation many times while reading this book. Kadue’s style, casual but erudite, also makes this book an unusually engaging read. Domestic Georgic is ultimately a book about labor: the mundane, if Sisyphean...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 327–345.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of capital flows,” the “widespread introduction of informal, flexible, and decentralized forms of labor” ( SE , 9), and the burst of “end-of-history” enthusiasm following the breakup of the Soviet empire. As Crary notes, the result was a “phase of naïve idealism” in which “the internet complex was promoted...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 367–398.
Published: 01 December 1997
..., 1987), 7-11. Guillory I Bourdieu’s Refusal 373 rating other aspects, primarily the cultural. It will require some time (and the reader’s patience) for me to evince the relation between this distribution of theoretical labor and the signal tension Calhoun...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 119–127.
Published: 01 June 2014
... is peculiar to literary study, what charges relations with the political, with policy, and with public debates, is that the object of our scholarly investigation —  our scholarly labor — is still encountered outside universities. Indeed, academic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (1): 93–110.
Published: 01 March 1965
...) in the recent past, Van Winkle might well in 1940 think that further bibliographical 98 NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE work on the nineteenth century was necessary. But he would surely wonder at the thought that in 1965 the editorial labor represented by these two...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 361–364.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., such as Lucy Snowe in Villette (1853). Schaffer connects this latter novel about migration and paid, gendered care work to the labor conditions of current domestic workers, also often immigrants, typically women of color. The novel reads differently through this lens; Villette is one example of many where...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 453–478.
Published: 01 December 2019
... rumbling through her work, Chukhrov’s theses are consistent: art must be communist; all desire, even faked, is political eros; and the post-Soviet subject is not even dead. Chukhrov embeds her politics in institutional critique, lends her labor to collectives and collaborations, and refracts her poetic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 351–372.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of the novel’s conception of reality in the Mexican borderlands: first, the Ciudad Juárez femicides as objects of representation; second, the economic conditions underlying the systemic violence perpetrated against female maquiladora workers and the rift between labor and capital; and third, the relation of art...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11525434.
Published: 28 January 2025
... need to stick together right now, he seems to say, faced as we are with the multiple overlapping crises of funding, the casualization of labor, and direct political attacks on the humanities. We may not be fully beyond the era of the academic superstar yet, but Modern Language Quarterly 86:1 (March...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 257–260.
Published: 01 June 2021
...); or that therapeutic culture’s linking of moral and economic issues can also reflect an older “spiritual project of finding meaning in one’s labor” (71). Beth Blum’s illuminating study examines the relation between literary fiction and the advice literature we commonly shelve under “self-help.” Blum’s thesis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 552–555.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750 - 1830 . By Batchelor Jennie . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2010 . x + 249 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Reviews A New Literary History of America. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Cambridge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 537–542.
Published: 01 December 2011
.../00267929-­1382488 Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750 – 1830. By Jennie Batchelor. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. x + 249 pp. Women’s Work  encourages literary critics and historians to distinguish the fic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 542–545.
Published: 01 December 2011
...- ture, traces the theoretical and historical intersections between politics, aesthetics, and literary history. doi 10.1215/00267929-­1382488 Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750 – 1830. By Jennie Batchelor. Manchester...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 545–548.
Published: 01 December 2011
.../00267929-­1382488 Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750 – 1830. By Jennie Batchelor. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. x + 249 pp. Women’s Work  encourages literary critics and historians to distinguish the fic...