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Figure 1. Installments 1–2 (chaps. 1–7) of Bleak House. The longest network diameter connects the four-sided nodes (beginning at Lady Dedlock and ending at Mr. Swallow). The dashed line represents written communication. Bracketed characters have had interactions but not yet been identified by name at this point in the novel.

Installments 1–2 (chaps. 1–7) of Bleak House . The longest network diamete...

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Figure 1. Installments 1–2 (chaps. 1–7) of Bleak House . The longest network diameter connects the four-sided nodes (beginning at Lady Dedlock and ending at Mr. Swallow). The dashed line represents written communication. Bracketed characters have had interactions but not yet been identified More
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Eyrbyggia Saga

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Kenneth G. Chapman
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 96–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-22-1-96
Published: 01 March 1961
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The Discovery of Realistic Art in Antoine de La Sale Through Pol de Limbourg

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Helmut Hatzfeld
Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 168–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-15-2-168
Published: 01 June 1954
... of aristocratic and bourgeois functions, banquets, music, dances, tournaments, scenes with the tailor, hosier, shoemaker, embroiderer, seamstress (Chap. 11) , goldsmith (Chap. 19), horse- dealer (Chap. 16), and stablegrooms, scenes in the castle, the abbey, the country manor, in inns, the dormitory...
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Two Old French Translations of Boccacio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium

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Patricia M. Gathercole
Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 304–309.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-17-4-304
Published: 01 December 1956
.... 3 For more detail concerning Laurent’s second translation of De casibus, see my article “Laurent de Premierfait : The Translator of Boccaccio’s DPcasibus wirorum illustrium,” in French Revr’ezu, XVII (1954), 245-52. See also Paul Durrieu, Le Boccace de Munich (Munich, 1909), Chap. 11, “Le...
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The Ghost of Language in The Turn of the Screw

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Darrel Mansell
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (1): 48–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-46-1-48
Published: 01 March 1985
... Tdes (if Henry James, New York Edition, 26 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907-17), 12:201-2 (chap. 6). 54 THE TURN OF THE SCREW to face” being followed by the hiatus preceding the next chapter, which is set in a different t me and place...
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The Pathfinder the Wilderness Initiation of Mabel Dunham

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Paul Rosenzweig
Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 339–358.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-44-4-339
Published: 01 December 1983
... (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981), chap. 7, p. 92. 4 Several critics have noted this incestuous aspect. For example, see Joel Porte, The Romance in America (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1969), p. 25. 342 THE PATHFINDER...
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Dr. Johnson as Equivocator the Meaning of Rasselas

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Patrick O'Flaherty
Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 195–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-31-2-195
Published: 01 June 1970
... nevertheless. When Rasselas stands before the vacant, idle group of young sensualists and lectures them soberly on the evils of levity and ignorance, he is answered by “a general chorus of continued laughter” which is shared by author and reader (chap. 17).12 When he and Nekayah demonstrate...
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E. M. Forster and “The Possession of England”

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Philip Gardner
Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 166–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-42-2-166
Published: 01 June 1981
... of the years rather than by the loss of London itself. In a passage discarded from chapter 33 of Howards End, Forster indicated his own preference: “Howards End . . . is poetry, while London is culture.”l3 He makes the point more strongly in chap- ter 34: London is “a caricature of infinity...
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Trollope's Autobiography the Strategies of Self-Production

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Sarah Gilead
Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 272–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-47-3-272
Published: 01 September 1986
... and intelligible form” (chap. 1, p. 1). For the narrator, self-writing is a biological (“gar- rulity of old age”) and psychological (“aptitude of a man’s mind”) embarrassment, though a formal necessity. Yet implicit in his latter words is an awareness that self-conceptualizing makes, as well iis...
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The Chadrands and Dickens' View of Dissenters

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Trevor Blount
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 295–307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-25-3-295
Published: 01 September 1964
..., and seventhly, until I have regarded that reverend person in the light of a most dismal and oppressive Charade. (Uncommercial Traveller, Chap. LX) His antipathy to the dissenting clergy is apparent in Timothy Sparks’s political pamphlet, Sunday Under Three Heads (June, 1836), where he...
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“The King of England... Loved to Look Upon a Man”:melancholy and Masculinity in Scott's Talisman

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Margaret Bruzelius
Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (1): 19–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-62-1-19
Published: 01 March 2001
...”; and the final candidate, the mar- quis de Montserrat, is a “popinjay” (The Talisman [New York: Waverley, 1898], 66–67, chap. 5). MLQ 62.1-02 Bruzelius 2/9/01 2:05 PM Page 27 Bruzelius ❙ Melancholy and Masculinity in Scott’s Talisman 27 Crusade, who...
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The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope

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Morris R. Brownell
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 290–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-48-3-290
Published: 01 September 1987
... “the first modern poet” (p. l), and in “an attempt to see the poet whole” (p. 14), he takes a thematic rather than chronological approach, dividing his discussion into three parts: “Experience,” “Ideas,” and “Art.” The themes considered in the first section include Pope’s self-image (chap. l...
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Montesquieu and Hume

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Roger B. Oake
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 225–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2-2-225
Published: 01 June 1941
... in fash- ioning the national character of a people and hence its laws; it did not necessarily determine them. “Le voyage en Angleterre,” says Dedieu, “est dans l’histoire de la pensCe de Montesquieu, d’une importance capitale.” (Op. cit., chap. 5, p. 131.) He goes on to point out that, while...
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The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740

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Susan Jeffords
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 287–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-48-3-287
Published: 01 September 1987
... self-image (chap. l), society and class (chap. 2),politics and history (chap. 3),and satire (chap. 4). In the second section, Damrosch discusses psychology (chap. 5) and religion and meta- physics (chap. 6). The final section consists of chapters entitled “The De- scent to Truth” (chap. 7...
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Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–1609

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Bernadette Myers
Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 479–481.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11426443
Published: 01 December 2024
... chapter 1 establishes the theoretical underpinnings of early modern theater as an “inherently aerial technology” (79), the following chapters unpack the many ways in which this technology was wielded. Broadly, the book moves from discursive references to the air (chap. 2) to the props and special effects...
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Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care

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Ellwood Wiggins
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 393–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2920069
Published: 01 September 2015
... response to an unstable world (chap. 2). Hamilton claims that contemporary politicians and scholars alike tend to bandy about security all too carelessly. “A method of resistance, philology patiently questions the historical amnesia that diminishes the word’s semantic and conceptual range, thereby...
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Tudor Books of Saints and Martyrs

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Sears Jayne
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 368–369.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-25-3-368
Published: 01 September 1964
... tradition and the Golden Legend (Chaps. 1-11) PROTESTANT:Tudor attacks on the Saints Legend tradition (Chap. 111) CATHOLIC:works concerning the Henrician martyrs (Chap. IV) PROTESTANT:Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (Chaps. V-VI) CATHOLIC:works by and about Parsons...
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Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945–1965

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Richard King
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 460–462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7103488
Published: 01 December 2018
... and translated texts (chap. 1); the integration of the Chinese fiction of rural land reform (chap. 2) and industrial development (chap. 3) into the wider socialist imaginary; the reception and indigenization of Soviet science fiction (chap. 4) and youth fiction (chap. 5); and the dissemination of world...
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The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

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Nicholas Halmi
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 230–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7368274
Published: 01 June 2019
... its extended reading (in chap. 4) of Wordsworth’s “Ruined Cottage” as a presentation of the “incommensurability between natural and cultural time” (133), and its subtle analysis (in chap. 5, which ties together many of the book’s concerns) of Coleridge’s 1802 Morning Post essays comparing...
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Hortense versus Bucket the Ambiguity of Order in Bleak House

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Michael Steig, F. A. C. Wilson
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 289–298.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-33-3-289
Published: 01 September 1972
..., etl. Duane DeVries (New York. 1971), chap. 53; our text throughout is that of the first bound edition (1853). 289 290 BLEAK HOUSE this treatment of Bucket with Dickens’s ambivalent admiration of “om...
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