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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 87–88.
Published: 01 March 1955
...James R. Caldwell V. Erdman David. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954. Pp. xx + 503. $7.50. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 James R. Caldwell 07 Bloke, Prophet Against Empire: A Poet’s Interpretation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 319–347.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and Theseus primarily through vernacular authors. Vernacular literature’s depictions of the mythic founders of Rome and Athens foreground classical heroes’ treachery and duplicity and minimize their roles as progenitors of empire and culture. Shakespeare’s quotation strategies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 March 2021
...René Johannes Kooiker [email protected] Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism . By Christopher Taylor . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . ix + 320 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 West Indian literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 215–217.
Published: 01 June 1994
...G. W. Pigman, III David Quint. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. x + 433 pp. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Formcfim Virgil to Milton. By David Quint. Princeton, N.J...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (3): 388–390.
Published: 01 September 1998
... and the British Empire. By Katie Trumpener. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xviii + 426 pp. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This is a work of quite remarkable ambition and sweep that sets out to rethink the literary history of early British romanticism by relocating its focus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 497–498.
Published: 01 December 1944
.... HEREWARDT. PRICE University of Michigan Religion and Empire: The Alliance between Piety and Commerce in English Expansion, 1558-1625. By LOUISB. WRIGHT.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943. Pp. ix + 190. $2.00. The economic interpretation of history, popular...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 161–196.
Published: 01 June 1999
...Tim Fulford Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Romanticizing the Empire: The Naval Heroes of Southey, Coleridge, Austen, and Marryat Tim Fulford In August 1830 the newly popular novelist Captain Frederick Marryat received a letter. Washington Irving, its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (1): 119–123.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Margarita Zamora Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas . By Roland Greene. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii + 289 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 June 1978
... in its influence on the direction of future Mon taigne scholarship. FLOYDGRAY University of Michigan Ruins and Empire: The Euolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature. By LAURENCEGOLDSTEIN. Pittsburgh...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 275–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Juliet Shields Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640 – 1940 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. University of Washington 2009 Juliet Shields is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 97–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Vincent P. Pecora The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire . By J. Jeffrey Franklin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 273 pp. University of Washington 2010 Vincent P. Pecora is Gordon B. Hinckley Professor of British Literature and Culture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 380–384.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Rachel Price Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities .By Laura Lomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xvii + 379 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven, CT...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 384–389.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Bernadette Andrea Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities. By Barbara Fuchs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiii + 211 pp;Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English Writing. By John Michael Archer. Stanford, Calif...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (1): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of markets and publics in early modern Europe. Richard Hakluyt’s Navigations in Time: History, Epic, and Empire David Harris Sacks udged in terms of its literary reputation as well as its own expressed Jintentions, Richard Hakluyt’s often celebrated Principal Navigations of the English...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., and periodization in medieval and early modern Spain. Intricate Alliances: Some Spanish Formulations of Language and Empire Marina Brownlee he intricate alliances of genre and history invite us to ponder cer- Ttain questions: How is the boundary between fiction and history figured by literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 549–551.
Published: 01 December 2005
...). © 2005 University of Washington 2005 The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain . By Ricardo Padrón. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 287 pp. Reviews Eine Literaturgeschichte Mitteleuropas. By Zoran Konstantinovic´ and Fridrun...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (3): 363–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Ricardo Padrón University of Washington 2007 Ricardo Padrón is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. His article in this issue builds on the argument advanced in The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain (2004). He is working...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 171–211.
Published: 01 June 2006
... for British Empire Elisa Tamarkin Oh, dullness! dullness! I do wish Harry was at home, or Sir William would march some of his troops this way! What’s the use of an army in the country, if one can’t have a dance once in a while? — Oliver Bunce, Love in ’76 (1859) he age...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (4): 527–530.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Gordon Braden Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France . By Margaret W. Ferguson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 506 pp. University of Washington 2006 Gordon Braden is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 107–127.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in a pointless epic adventure. At the same time, Du Bellay taunts Ronsard for being a poet in favor with the French court and thus one whose own aventure was an official success. Du Bellay's agon with Ronsard carves out, in effect, areas of empire-undermining and empire-glorifying epic. University...