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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 369–379.
Published: 01 June 1996
...Sylvia Molloy © 1996 University of Washington 1996 His America, Our America: Jose Marti Reads Whitman Sylvia Molloy want to contextualize this piece within the framework of the project I on which I am working, as part of a more general reflection on turn- of-the-century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 282–286.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Paul Giles Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America . By Elisa Tamarkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xxxiii + 400 pp. University of Washington 2009 Paul Giles is professor of American literature at the University of oxford. His most recent book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Elizabeth Freeman Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America . By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Elizabeth Freeman is professor of English at the University of California...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 537–542.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Quarterly, Contemporary Literature , and Pedagogy . A New Literary History of America . Edited by Marcus Greil Sollors Werner . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2009 . xxvii + 1,095 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Reviews A New...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 527–543.
Published: 01 December 2012
... texts employed Norman-Saxon dichotomies for nationalist purposes, various nations manipulated the Anglo-Saxon myth for nation-building purposes. America was no different. Ultimately, its relation to its Anglo-Saxon past became a struggle for its own national heritage. Michael Modarelli...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Brian Lennon Brian Lennon is associate professor of English and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University and author of In Babel’s Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States (2010). Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 175–191.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Doris Sommer Abstract During the US Cold War boom in area studies, scholars would sometimes innocently support homeland economic and political interests. In Latin America and elsewhere, the fact-finding focus often morphed into the look of love, as objects of investigation turned out to be more...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 88–89.
Published: 01 March 1955
... and such writing interesting and significant, Mr. Hazelrigg has not discovered it. E. H. EBY CJnhrJity of Washington Bibliography of German Cultwe i~ America to 1940. Compiled and edited by HENRYA. POCHMANNand ARTHURR...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 279–281.
Published: 01 September 1955
... Un4vmsity College, University of Toronto Ludwig Tieck and America. By PERCYMATENKO. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, No. 12, 1954. Pp. viii + 120. $4.00, cloth; $3.50, paper. In 1931 the present reviewer published his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 368–371.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Abram Van Engen [email protected] Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America . By Ana Schwartz . Williamsburg, VA : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023 . x + 276 pp. Copyright © 2024...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 213–224.
Published: 01 June 1943
...A. J. Prahl © 1943 University of Washington 1943 AMERICA IN THE WORKS OF GERSTACKER By A. J. PRAHL The number of German books which were written about the United States in the Nineteenth Century is quite large, and many of them...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 260–261.
Published: 01 June 1943
...Lawrence M. Price Paul Ben Baginsky. New York: The New York Public Library, 1942. Pp. xv + 217. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 260 Reviews German Works Relating to America, 1493-1 800. A List Compiled from the Collections of the New York Public Library...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 119–127.
Published: 01 June 1996
...Doris Sommer © 1996 University of Washington 1996 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America Doris Sommer Latin American literatures...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 124–129.
Published: 01 March 1998
... of the boundless possibilities of his topic once it is released into the world. Few conversions, many revisions. But not, I could wish, so much “reinvention.”The word seems to speak to Clinton’s America as “conversion” spoke to Disraeli’s England. Both require a great dose of forgetfulness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 303–308.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Michael Galchinsky The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America By Jonathan Freedman. Oxford: Oxford University Press,2000. vi + 264 2001 University of Washington. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.3-05 Reviews 7/12/01 1:22 PM Page 285...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 598–601.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Monika Kaup Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America . By Arellano Jerónimo . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2015 . xxxii + 210 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Magical Realism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 March 1946
... of America (1701) : An Anonymous Virginian’s Pro- posals for Liberty Under the British Crown, with Two Memoranda by William Byrd. Edited by LOUISB. WRIGHT.San Marino, Cali- fornia : The Huntington Library, 1945. Pp. xxiv + 66. $2.50. These two valuable contributions to knowledge about...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 284–287.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Mary Loeffelholz The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America . By Cohen Michael C. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 . 296 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Poems have social lives, or at least they had them...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 80–82.
Published: 01 March 1988
...Allen F. Stein Nettels Elsa. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. xi + 236 pp. $23.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 80 REVIEWS Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells’s America. By ELSANETTELS. Lex...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 March 1942
... Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, XXXIX. ) Pp. 150. $1.25. A number of studies have been made of Voltaire’s reputation and influence outside France, but h!iss Barr’s monograph is the first to study the reaction to Voltaire in eighteenth-century America. Its five chapters...