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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 400–403.
Published: 01 September 2015
... surprising, as the author notes, that “no book has yet been written” about “this distinctive and durable preoccupation for US literary and cultural history” (14), yet in one sense Buell’s work might be said not only to categorize this subject properly for the first time but also to finish it off once...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11638112.
Published: 06 March 2025
.... The challenge is embedded in the title, which quotes, with the intention of resignifying, a concept rst introduced to ecocriticism by Lawrence Buell in 2003 to refer to preconscious or not-yet-conscious environments that go beyond human perception (13). Buell (2001: 24, 22) takes credit for the neologism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 581–589.
Published: 01 December 2016
... scholars, which appeared at about the same time and also contributed to reinvigorating conversation concerning the novel as a form and the cultures it shapes and responds to: Lawrence Buell’s Dream of the Great American Novel (2014) and Thomas Pavel’s Lives of the Novel (2013). Like Jameson, Buell...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Robert Penn . 1976 (1938). Understanding Poetry . 4th ed. Boston : Wadsworth . Buell Lawrence . 2007 . “ Egoblast Affects: The Emergence of U.S. Environmental Imagination on a Planetary Scale .” In Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature , edited by Buell...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 401–417.
Published: 01 December 1998
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Buell, National Culture and the New Global System (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity Press, 1994), 162-3- For the feminist perspective see Marilyn L. Williamson,
“Toward a Feminist Literary History,” Signs 10 (1984): 137-8; Sandra Gilbert and
Susan Gubar, “Tradition and the Female Talent...
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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
... are incidental to his self-conceived character; this is one explanation for his lack of specificity, of which Fitzgerald’s agent Maxwell Perkins complained (see Fitzgerald 1963 : 172) and which Lawrence Buell ( 2014 : 144) notes in his study of the “Great American Novel” phenomenon: “We never see him...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (3): 417–436.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of delicate tunes and
rhythms” whose sugary verse lacks “vision” (3:9, 5:257).
18 In what follows I consider Emerson’s work in a transatlantic rather than a
specifically American field imaginary. See Lawrence Buell, “Postcolonial Anxiety in
Classic U.S. Literature,” in Postcolonial Theory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (3): 308–311.
Published: 01 September 1984
... a fictional mode that has
been long observed under other names: “recherche degradee” (Lucien
Goldmann), “observer-hero narrative” (Bruffee cites Lawrence Buell, but
compare related terms for this), drama of consciousness (my own favorite).
It is, by historical standards, a smallish group of works...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 545–568.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and separated space,
and the woodlanders as indigenous others with primitive superstitions
and timeless patterns of life — is characteristic of ecocriticism. Lawrence
Buell, for example, takes much the same view, suggesting that if the
woodlanders’ lives “get traumatically disrupted or extinguished...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 137–152.
Published: 01 June 2003
... of the 1917 21 Cambridge History.18 Indeed, whereas numerous histories of major literatures have been written, the eld is dominated by a few recognized monuments. Such histories do more than help establish 18 Lawrence Buell refers to the three of these histories that are nished as monuments and regrets...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (4): 456–460.
Published: 01 December 1991
... to descend from this com-
mon ancestor. Carafiol shows that versions of these problematic claims appear
in most subsequent major histories of Transcendentalism, up to and including
Lawrence Buell’s Literary Transcendentalism (1973).
But Carafiol’s analysis of this pattern in Transcendentalist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., 1736-1936 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Bourbaki Nicolas . 1968 . Theory of Sets. Vol. 1 of Elements of Mathematics . Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley . Buell Lawrence . 2005 . The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination . Malden...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 399–418.
Published: 01 December 2020
... postcritique. ▪ ▪ ▪ At its starting point in the 1990s, ecocriticism sought commonsense transformations of method and object in response to environmental damage and political impasse. Recalibrating assumptions about background, Lawrence Buell ( 1995 : 88) moved literary setting to the fore and recast...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 421–444.
Published: 01 December 2018
... with “effluvia” and “miasma,” see Lacqueur 2015 : 230, 237; and Corbin 1982 . On the omnipresent, invisible force of toxicity in contemporary life, see Alaimo 2016 ; Buell 1998 ; Chen 2012 ; and Nixon 2011 . 5 The popularity of écœurer and its variants, along with pourri , peaked in 1900...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 27–51.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Jean . 2019 . After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration . New York : Verso . Buell Frederick . 2003 . From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century . New York : Routledge . Cole Sarah . 2019 . Inventing Tomorrow: H. G...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 363–371.
Published: 01 December 1952
... of a quarrel), see Fred W. Lorch, “Lecture
Trips and Visits of Mark Twain in Iowa,” pp. 531-34. The Ellsworth and
Buell [Buel] whom Mr. Tinker mentions would have known Cable and Twain
(but probably not intimately) because of their editorial connections with the
Century Magazine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (3): 431–462.
Published: 01 September 2000
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21 Lawrence Buell, introduction to “Ethics and Literary Study,” special issue of
PMLA 114, no. 1 (1999): 12; Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Mod-
ern Identity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989), 130. Buell notes that
this new...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 207–218.
Published: 01 June 1944
... of Patriots (New
York, 1935) ; R. L. Buell, Contempwary French Politics (New York, 1920)
chapter XI1 ; R. H. Soltau, “Regionalism and Administrative Decentralization,”
Economica, no. 5 (June, 1932), pp. 162-72 ; J. W. Garner, “Administrative Re-
form in France,” American Political Science Re7iew...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Annales , edited by Burke Peter , 241 – 76 . New York : Harper . Buell Duncan . 2019 . “ More Responses to ‘The Computational Case against Literary Studies.’ ” Critical Inquiry blog, April 12 . critinq.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/more-responses-to-the-computational-case-against...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 471–496.
Published: 01 December 1998
...” or that “when a literary
culture loses its ability to recognize and appreciate genuine poems like
‘My Lost Youth’ because they are too simple, it has surely traded too
much of its innocence and openness for a shallow sophistication3
2 Lawrence Buell, ed., introduction to Henry Wadsworth...
