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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 390–394.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Kathleen Blake Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain . By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 511 pp. University of Washington 2009 Kathleen Blake is professor of English at the University of Washington...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 582–585.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel . By Catherine Gallagher. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 209 pp. Reviews Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture. By Thomas M. Kavanagh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11366127.
Published: 18 September 2024
...Carmen Thong Abstract This article argues for the importance of analyzing distributions of literary-critical attention to understand the shape of our discipline and how it has evolved. The article sees critical attention as a scarce resource in literary economies, both within a single text...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 539–542.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Gordon Braden The value of the present book in such local texture is considerable, and very welcome. But Kennedy also tries for a larger thesis that he can’t bring off. Work and economies in the title point toward an argument about the place of Petrarchism in the developing marketplaces...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 106–108.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Vadim Shneyder Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under Nicholas I . By Jillian Porter . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2017 . xi + 198 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 True to its theme, Jillian Porter’s book is a work of great...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 129–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
... to be framed as a choice between symbolic economy (Casanova's “universal” literary capital) and political economy (the focus of many Latin Americanist scholars on hegemonic constructions of modernity). Yet the unique circumstances of Mundial —published in Paris by Spanish America's most famous poet, composed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 373–396.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of a modern definition of circulation, so this essay returns to one especially pertinent case from that period, Helenus Scott’s it-narrative The Adventures of a Rupee (1782), which describes the movements of a rupee coin in the world economy. Attending to the linguistic form and publication history of Scott’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... In the economy of justice, youth counteracts complacency. One of Guyon’s prototypes, the biblical king Josiah, is an example. Spenser pictures all his heroes as young, and growing up is part of his design for the epic as a whole. His attitude, though, is not condescending. The danger of sexual indulgence, which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 169–189.
Published: 01 June 1994
... and therefore were tac- itly in competition with one another.3 But by the early nineteenth century, political economy had made great headway as a model of social relations and an agent of economic and civil progress? The romantics appropriated the discourse of genius when it was no longer considered...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 September 2011
...- sity Press, 1974], 443). See also Auerbach, “Vico and Aesthetic Historism,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism  8, no. 2 (1949): 110 – 18. 406 MLQ September 2011 introduced. The context is Cuoco’s analysis of the economy of Naples before 1799 — before...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2016
... follows I complicate the question of relevance by looking more closely into where exactly a literary artifact circulates, in which practice spaces and lifeworlds it is used, which sort of economies the practice- and lifeworld-dependent uses of a work require, and how these multiple uses translate...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 367–398.
Published: 01 December 1997
... to be foisted upon it a definition of the economy of practices which is the historical inven- tion of capitalism” (“Forms of Capital,” 242). It has not been suffi- ciently appreciated that from Bourdieu’s point of view economic dis- course is a defective, anticipatory version of sociology. Thus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 369–397.
Published: 01 September 2011
... apodictically asserted, “is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities” (1:47). The first chapter of David Ricardo’s consolidating work of classical economic theory, On the Principles of Polit- ical Economy and Taxation, is accordingly titled “On Value” and begins from Smith’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Miller writes, “If value is no longer the holy grail of theory, it is certainly today the holy grail of practice” (1122). Though we have come a long way from calculating “value” in terms of its labor costs, a principle of nineteenth-­century political economy derived largely from Karl Marx’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 345–382.
Published: 01 December 1994
... culture’s moral economy and ritual practice and who introduces (or reintroduces) them to the West. No longer as completely determined as the rites of the medieval sorcerer had been by religious fears of contamination (though racial and the Decline of Magic (New York Scribner, 1971...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 225–229.
Published: 01 June 1994
... Baudrillard and Theodor Adorno, on whose work Christensen draws), its theory is political economy, its aim imperialism, its standard paper, its object the commodity. At its height, post- Waterloo and post-Peterloo, this society ruled through interlinked repre- sentational strategies and technologies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., and the Origins of Our Times (London: Verso, and Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 7 Casanova adapts the idea of rivalry to her model of international literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 150–154.
Published: 01 June 1951
...John Tyree Fain Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 RUSKIN AND MILL By JOHN TYREEFAIN Ruskin selected John Stuart Mill as one of his opponents in a crusade against the accepted political economy of nineteenth-century England...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 323–347.
Published: 01 September 2003
... a nascent global economy comes, disastrously, to disrupt her life. The word fortune announces the outer limits of the individual’s ability to conceptualize the seemingly inŽnite social space around her; it marks the point where the subject’s ability to make sense of the social sphere breaks down...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 297–319.
Published: 01 September 1994
..., identified with a new mimetic technology of realism. Said confronts the paradoxical absence of colonialism, the most salient con- dition of Britain’s political economy, from the miseen-scine of most Victorian novels. Empire appears nowhere because it is everywhere, the invisible cause of a domestic...