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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 377–392.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... He is completing a book on the cultural history and poetics of anonymity during the period 1695-1835. MLQ 62.4 05 Griffin 10/24/01 5:52 PM Page 377 The Age of “The Age of” Is Over: Johnson and New Versions of the Late Eighteenth Century Robert J. Griffin...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 395–419.
Published: 01 September 2017
... with the culture of the Restoration stage. If we look at the end of his career, we might be tempted to think of him as the reaction against the Age of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, but if we look at it as a whole, he resists such categories, challenging the significance of 1642 as the great dividing point...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (2): 182–184.
Published: 01 June 1960
... Hiline were, apparently, composed after December, 1572- January, 1573. MARCELFRANCON HarzJard Unizwsity Ait Age of Crisis: Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought. By LESTERG. CROCKER.Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 237–238.
Published: 01 June 1950
... to the future literary historian. MIMI I. JEHLE Uiriversity of Illiiwis The German Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: A Study in the Drama from Gottscked to Les By S. ETTASCHRFJBER. New York: King’s Crown Press, Columbia University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (4): 562–564.
Published: 01 December 1990
... Goethe. The Poet and the Age. Vol. 1, The Poetry of Desire (1749-1 790). By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xx + 807 pp. $37.50. As the inventor of the historicized autobiography that sets the inner life in the context of the outer life and times, Goethe has left his...
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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 (1995) 56 (2): 221–231.
Published: 01 June 1995
... of the enormous transformations occurring within medieval studies, transformations that revise the internal structure of the field and its most fundamental characteristics, the “Middle Ages” still performs as a cultural icon within the discourse of modernists in an older, manifestly prejudicial sense...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 March 1945
... of our most various and most bewildering kinsman, the Indo- European Slav. 0. STEPANEK Unizgersity of Nebracka La Grande Clartk du Moyen-Age. By GUSTAVECOHEN. New York : editions de la Maison Franqaise, 1943. Pp. 225. This little book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Marguerite Waller Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age . By Carole Levin and John Watkins. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 217 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Marguerite Waller is professor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 13–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of Washington 2012 Milton’s Trifles: Lyric Disparagement in an Age of Walking Books Sharon Achinstein his essay begins with a lost book, a misplaced book, perhaps a sto- Tlen book: a book that went missing from a public library. This is, of course, not an unfamiliar story in the history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 151–170.
Published: 01 June 2013
... in original languages and in translation. In the second part Damrosch proposes that the fundamental tension today has shifted to the question of the place of literary studies in a multimedia age, and he explores how we can make affirmative use of the common translation of classic texts across not only...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (3): 447–450.
Published: 01 September 2007
...: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848 . By Virgil Nemoianu. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xi + 258 pp. Reviews The Grounds of English Literature. By Christopher Cannon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 237 pp. The Grounds of English...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 581–586.
Published: 01 December 2014
...). He is completing one book on Descartes and his age, another on rethinking the Renaissance as part of long continental and oceanic intercultural exchanges, and an edited collection on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes . By Braider...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 607–609.
Published: 01 December 2016
... as if the arrival of modern secular individualism somehow marks its passing. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age . By Jager Colin . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 . 332 pp. ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 447–471.
Published: 01 September 2016
...” the dominant sociopolitical and economic realities of our time? These are the broad questions with which this study begins and by which it hopes to draw critical attention to what is surely one of the most historically novel if largely unexplored features of the contemporary cultural field. To frame the “Age...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 241–243.
Published: 01 June 1944
... in English Poetry. Volume 11: 1740-1780. Re- ligious Sentimentalism in the Age of Johnson. By HOXIENEALE FAIRCHILD.New York : Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. ix + 406. $5.00. This is the second of a series of volumes in which Professor Fair- child proposes to trace the “course...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 247–249.
Published: 01 June 1944
... at Los Angeles Winckelmann and his German Critics, 1775-1 781. A Prelude to the Classical Age. By HENRYCARAWAY HATFIELD. New York: Co- lumbia University Germanic Studies, New Series, No. 15, 1943. Pp. 169. $1.75. There has been of late a very strong interest in Winckelmann. German...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 300–303.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Jane K. Brown Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803. vol. 2 of Goethe: The Poet and the Age. By Nicholas Boyle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. xiv + 949 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285 Reviews Practicing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 227–250.
Published: 01 June 2002
...: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility . The Mind a Department Store: Reconfiguring Space in the Gilded Age Gail McDonald ’ve been spending a month,” Henry James wrote to a correspondent I in 1905, “in the horrific, the unspeakable, extraordinary, yet partly interesting...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 171–195.
Published: 01 June 2013
... by Nadel Ira B. , 204 – 23 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . doi:10.1017/CCOL0521431174.010 . Yao Steven . 2002 . Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Close Reading in an Age of Global Writing Rebecca...