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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 443–476.
Published: 01 December 2005
...: Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Style (2005). Her current project is a study of financial speculation in Victorian literature. Her essay “`Overpowering Vitality': Nostalgia and Men of Sensibility in the Fiction of Wilkie Collins” appeared in the December 2002 issue of MLQ . “A Strange Chronicle...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 332–333.
Published: 01 June 1941
... better advised to with-
hold his thesis material from publication until he had incorporated
pertinent references from Trollope’s later novels.
BRADFORDA. BOOTH
University of California at Los Angeles
The Ordeal of Bridget Elia,, A Chronicle...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 262–265.
Published: 01 June 1940
...Lurline V. Simpson Edward Nobel Stone. Three Old French Chronicles of the Crusades (The History of the Holy War, The History of them that took Constantinople, The Chronicle of Reims) . Seattle: University of Washington Publications in Social Sciences, X, 1939. Pp. 377. $3.50. Copyright...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 87.
Published: 01 March 1960
... fitting
monument to his memory.
E. E. BOSTETTER
University of Washington
Bulwer and Macready: A Chronicle of the Early Victorian Theatre. Edited by
CHARLESH. SHATTUCK.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. Pp.
278. $5.75...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (3): 275–276.
Published: 01 September 1956
..., and
other prominent Victorian periodicals. As if to complement those researches,
Ray offers Thackeray’s Confributioris to the Morning Chronicle, a scrupulously
edited aggregation of thirty-five pieces, thirty-one of which Professor Ray
himself discovered and identified as being by the novelist’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 285–298.
Published: 01 September 1945
...Jeannette Fellheimer GEOFFREY FENTON’S HISTORIE OF G UICCIARDIN
AND HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES OF 1587
By JEANNETTE FELLIIEIMER
Francesco Guicciardini, famous Italian political historian ( 1483-
1540), is included in the list...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 September 1995
... + 339 pp. $43.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.
Pity the poor Tudor chroniclers! The sixteenth-century annals of Hall, Stow,
Grafton, and, above all, Holinshed, have certainly fallen hard between two
stools. Created in imitation of medieval chronicles principally valued for
being old, they were...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (1): 104–105.
Published: 01 March 1948
... Chroniclers, 1300-1500.
By LAURAKEELER. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of Cali-
fornia Publications in English, Volume 17, Number 1, 1946. Pp.
viii + 152. $1.75.
This is the fourth volume of “Studies in the Geoffrey of Monmouth
Tradition.” In a series of this kind, which...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 86–89.
Published: 01 March 1975
... of
Massachusetts, 32 (February 1935), 299.
Priuate Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries. By ROBERTA. FOIHERGILL.
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974. 214 pp.
f1.50; $14.50.
Except for the few famous ones, English diaries generally have been con-
signed...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 217–220.
Published: 01 June 1984
... that
informs the study, the reader, as Shreve, is entitled to address Shreve’s last
question to the new Quentin: “Why do you hate the South?”
JOHN TUCKER
University of Victoria
Canters and Chronicles: The Use of Narrative in the Plays...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 285–287.
Published: 01 September 1989
...: Chronicles of Disorder. By R. B. KERSH-
NER. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
xi + 338 pp. $34.95.
R. B. Kershner’s project is to demonstrate that Joyce’s “stories, novels,
and play are related intertextually not merely to the work of his acknowl-
edged...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 329–366.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., intersecting continually the larger narrative of twentieth-century print culture: his self-defining agon with mortality may in fact be traced to a concomitant chronicle of American publishing history. Building on the story “Pigeon Feathers” as exemplum, this essay traces the progress of Updike's engagement...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Elizabeth Bowen’s text within the context of an international cultural and economic world-system. It argues that two historical narratives inform Bowen’s Court : a gothic chronicle of decline and a protoprofessional story of detached expertise. These narratives correspond to two visions of Anglo-Ireland’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 545–568.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Tim Dolin In recent years ecocriticism has renovated the old orthodoxy, demolished forty years ago by Raymond Williams, that Thomas Hardy was the “incomparable chronicler” of an unchanging culture and the “last representative of old rural England.” In particular, The Woodlanders has been reread...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Alexander Millen Abstract Literary historians often cite George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) as a chronicle of a waning literary scene, but his sentences offer altogether stranger demonstrations of how a threatened form of realism attempts to grasp a radically transformed and transforming...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 347–360.
Published: 01 September 2023
... poetics, and historical stylistics. It argues that while Auerbachian aesthetic historicism played a key role in relativizing standards of aesthetic judgment—and thus arguing against aesthetic universals—a newly invigorated version would conceive the history of criticism as a chronicle of different...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 227–238.
Published: 01 September 1952
..., if Stoll had not assumed Holins-
hed‘s Chronicles to be the sole source of Wyat, he would have sought an expla-
nation for the inconsistency of the title roles in the abundant source material
rather than in the official entry. Cf. ibid., p 45.
Phillip Shaw...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 June 2021
... register the imperialist dreams of English kings while promoting countervailing strategies. In particular, two interlinked Latin chronicles, the Chronica gentis Scotorum ( Chronicle of the Scottish People ) of John of Fordun (ca. 1384) and the Scotichronicon of Walter Bower (ca. 1447), establish...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 141–150.
Published: 01 June 1996
..., to
a chronicler, who writes it down. It forms a part of the state’s farces of
truth and at the same time tells the truth in confession. Or rather, the
criminals of the corpus execute two politics at once: the criminal poli-
tics of the state (the “fictions of exclusion”) and, in the confession...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 262–265.
Published: 01 June 1940
...
previously published a Bibliographie zur englischen Propaganda im
?Velfkrieg, 1935, and a treatise on the Weltkrieg und Propaganda,
1936.
EDMUNDE. MILLER
University of Maryland
Three Old French Chronicles of the Crusades (The History of the
Holy War...
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