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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Winter Jade Werner; Mimi Winick Abstract Recent developments in the field of Victorian studies include its increasingly “global” or “transnational” scope as well as its “religious turn,” with a proliferation of scholarship on religion from Christian sects to new religious movements...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 461–480.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Alex Eric Hernandez Abstract This essay explores tensions between the practice of critique and recent calls for nonreductive engagement with global spiritualities, arguing for an approach to these experiences that is informed by the study of “lived religion.” Beginning with a discussion...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 67–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in comparative religion posed a challenge to the dominant linear and evolutionary historiography of the human, at the same time placing the global primitive at the center of the idea of culture. Advocating a utilitarian theory of art (challenging the Kantian autotelic definition), the period's numerous studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 367–372.
Published: 01 December 2022
... then explores Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks (1869) as an illustrative instance of how “religion matters because it creates intergenerational continuity.” Questions of method are also at the heart of our next essay, by Winter Jade Werner and Mimi Winick. Their focal point is global religion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Emily K. Bald The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature . By Giles Gunn . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2017 . 218 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Americanists are often accused...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 March 1995
.... This
knowledge challenged English cultural priority and superiority, even
though those who produced it often sought to widen England’s global
frontiers. The results of global expansion cancel out its justifjllng ideals
in an eighteenthcentury “dialectic of Enlightenment.” On one side
eighteenthcentury...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 2023
... stressed that in a globalizing context secularism doesn’t really seek to vanquish religion. It aims to sort good religion from bad religion or to determine which varieties of belief get to count as religion at all, a process with profound implications for racialization. That isn’t the story Schmidgen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 481–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
... circle. Murphy’s astute interpretation reminds us that talking about religion means talking about politics. But Stowe’s concern with telling a global, centuries-long Protestant story also encourages us to zoom out from the nation-state to survey how this novel figures Protestantism’s historical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 391–422.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of theology or religion, components of which, I would
argue, remain central to the racisms that he examines as global dis-
courses.13
I do not intend here to provide an exhaustive list of the historical
or theoretical examinations of race that have elided or distorted
medieval contexts. More...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 293–317.
Published: 01 September 2011
... most recent book is Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State (2007). He is also author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (1999), coeditor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2003), and editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 408–411.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and the autonomy of the self, Gikandi, to his credit, rejects Eurocentric narratives of modernity that ignore slavery and insists that, to be effective and truthful, cultural analysis has to be plurivalent across interpretive dimensions that have been kept apart. The globalizing culture of slavery within modernity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 227–229.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., the city’s cultural institutions gravitated toward the world, as their forgotten, hidden, and eclipsed textual legacy demonstrates” (67), while Weimar, small though it was, “provided an ideal context for transcending the global in a literature that eventually became synonymous with cultural icons...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 120–124.
Published: 01 March 2011
...: Modernism beyond the Nation (2006); editor or coeditor of seven books, including Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization (2006) and Bad Modernisms , with douglas Mao (2006); and coeditor of the journal Contemporary Literature . Her essay “Shakespeare in Harlem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 572–577.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Bruce Robbins Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture. By Aamir R. Mufti. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiii + 325 pp.; Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language. By Srinivas Aravamudan. Princeton, NJ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of discovery and surprise, alive in
their presentation, gives the reader the old-fashioned pleasure of a detective
story and, more important, makes tangible the historical specificities and
stakes involved in the social constructions of gender and race that haunt
immigration policies and globalization...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the reader the old-fashioned pleasure of a detective
story and, more important, makes tangible the historical specificities and
stakes involved in the social constructions of gender and race that haunt
immigration policies and globalization strategies in the European Union
and the United States...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in
their presentation, gives the reader the old-fashioned pleasure of a detective
story and, more important, makes tangible the historical specificities and
stakes involved in the social constructions of gender and race that haunt
immigration policies and globalization strategies in the European Union...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 116–120.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of discovery and surprise, alive in
their presentation, gives the reader the old-fashioned pleasure of a detective
story and, more important, makes tangible the historical specificities and
stakes involved in the social constructions of gender and race that haunt
immigration policies and globalization...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in
their presentation, gives the reader the old-fashioned pleasure of a detective
story and, more important, makes tangible the historical specificities and
stakes involved in the social constructions of gender and race that haunt
immigration policies and globalization strategies in the European Union...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 567–569.
Published: 01 December 2008
... at Temple University. His most recent book is Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America (2003). Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading and The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche's Truth are forthcoming. Reviews
Shylock Is Shakespeare...
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