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Imperial Fictions: German Literature before and beyond the Nation-State

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Paul Michael Lützeler
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 264–266.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8151663
Published: 01 June 2020
...Paul Michael Lützeler Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Imperial Fictions: German Literature before and beyond the Nation-State . By Todd Kontje . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2018 . xi + 329 pp. Kontje also has astute and detailed passages...
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Romantic Wales and the Imperial Picturesque

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Timothy Heimlich
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8151559
Published: 01 June 2020
... of picturesque aesthetic praxis, this essay argues that the picturesque must be understood as a technique of colonial control that evolved to maximize imperial profit by subjugating Welsh cultural and social difference. Wales proved an especially pliable country throughout the Romantic period. Its status...
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Milton, Imperialism, and Education

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Gauri Viswanathan
Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (3): 345–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-59-3-345
Published: 01 September 1998
..., Modernity, and Belief (1998) . Milton, Imperialism, and Education Gauri Viswanathan And perhaps then other nations will be glad to visit us for their breeding, or else to imitate us in their own country.-John Milton, Of Education lthough commerce was the means by which...
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Aesthetic Imperialism: Literature and the Conquest of India

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Henry Schwarz
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 563–586.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-61-4-563
Published: 01 December 2000
...Henry Schwarz © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-01Schwarz.cs 11/13/00 2:06 PM Page 563 Aesthetic Imperialism: Literature and the Conquest of India Henry Schwarz It has been estimated that around 60,000 books dealing...
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Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological Boundaries and Visionary Frontiers

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Paul Delany
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (2): 218–221.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-46-2-218
Published: 01 June 1985
... written one of the best books on James in recent years. ELSANETTELS College of William and Mary Conrad and Imperialism: Ideologzcal Boundaries and Visionary Frontiers. By BENITA PARRY.London: Macmillan, 1983. vii + 162 pp. $28.00. What...
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“It Was an Ancient Mariner”: Sir Ernest Shackleton Rewrites the Romantic Quest

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J. Andrew Hubbell
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 271–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2010-012
Published: 01 September 2010
... that nourishes the ideologies sustaining the late British imperial adventure. The essay, which places this rhetorical analysis of South in the context of Britain's decline as an imperial power after World War I, argues that the tradition of internal quest romance operates in the cultural imaginary...
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The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Narrative of Capitalist Globalization

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Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 201–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1589176
Published: 01 June 2012
... of capitalist and imperial unfolding through the recurrence of Judaized otherness and virtualized Jewishness. Don Draper is a virtual Jew in whom the minority subject’s aberrant particularity and the majority subject’s universalist status collide, but serial forms like montage synchronize Don’s virtual...
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Du Bellay’s Petrarchan Politics: Violence and Imitation in the Olive and the Deffence

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Cynthia Nazarian
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 1–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1892708
Published: 01 March 2013
... the Holy Roman Empire of Charles V through shared metaphors of imperial conquest, looting, and war. For their insights and suggestions I wish to thank François Rigolot, Leonard Barkan, Bonnie Honig, Louisa Mackenzie, and the editor of MLQ , Marshall Brown. Cynthia Nazarian is assistant...
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction

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Alexander C. Y. Huang
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 97–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2007-027
Published: 01 March 2008
... (1934) and Dr. Wen (1936–37) question the viability of global cultural membership. For Lao She, cultural hotchpotch—as suggested by Salman Rushdie—is not an option. These novellas dramatize the dialectic between the global and the local at a crossroads of Chinese nationalism and Western imperialism. Lao...
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East Indian, West Indian: Colored Cosmopolitanism, World Literature, and the Dual Autobiography of Cedric Dover and Claude McKay

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Nico Slate
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2920042
Published: 01 September 2015
... to color world literature by crafting a transnational literary canon grounded in the idea of colored solidarity and explicitly opposed to racism and imperialism. His commitment to colored cosmopolitanism led him, however, to a stale ventriloquism that was itself a form of colonization. Claiming dominion...
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The Oriental Tale and the Transformation of North Indian Prose Fiction

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Maryam Wasif Khan
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 27–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3699769
Published: 01 March 2017
... of colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta (1800), inaugurated the standardization of the fluid North Indian language complex into the religiously demarcated vernaculars Urdu and Hindi. The imperially patronized production of the Oriental tale as both a literary and a pedagogical form...
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The Veritable Véritable Saint Genest : Tragedy and Martyr Play in Jean Rotrou

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Christopher Braider
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 25–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-4264258
Published: 01 March 2018
..., in particular the religious civil wars of the preceding century. Albeit in the discreetly displaced form of a martyr story set in imperial Rome, the play enacts the violent disorders associated with religion itself and so, by extension, the virtues of the new secular order that theater embodies. Rather than...
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The Voices of Keti Chukhrov: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union

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Marijeta Bozovic
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 453–478.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7777819
Published: 01 December 2019
...Marijeta Bozovic Abstract The newest Russian poetic avant-garde wields highly aware appropriations and remediations in stark opposition to mainstream cultural phenomena, including nostalgia for the imperial and militant aestheticized politics of the Soviet Union. Efforts to think leftward beyond...
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World Poetry: Commonplaces of an Idea

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Harris Feinsod
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 427–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7777806
Published: 01 December 2019
...Harris Feinsod Abstract This essay offers a philological career of the term world poetry as poets and scholars employed it and close cognates across the twentieth century (the century in which it first appeared). This career emphasizes trajectories in three of the West’s imperial language...
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Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief

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Dawn Coleman
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 481–497.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10088718
Published: 01 December 2022
... in that it reinforces Protestantism as integral to American identity, Oldtown Folks prioritizes the vibrancy and longevity of Anglo-American Puritanism and Episcopalianism as relatively autonomous, family- and community-based institutions that maintain complex relationships to state violence and imperialism...
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George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 1890

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Alexander Millen
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10574864
Published: 01 September 2023
... social situation. Drawing on recent work on the politics of style, this essay argues that Gissing’s narrative style is best understood in terms of two motivating forces powerfully at work in late nineteenth-century Britain: an ascendant popular culture and the massive expansion of the imperial regime...
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Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana

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Laura Hydak
Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 399–422.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11426383
Published: 01 December 2024
.... This effect, “theatrical postmemory,” minimizes the distance between past and present, Cuba and Catalonia, memory and history. The article focuses on Aymar’s transformation of two symbols of Spanish (post)imperial nostalgia, the indiano home and the Catalan habanera , a popular musical genre. La indiana...
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An Imperialist Inherits the Earth: Howards End in the Anthropocene

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Ted Howell
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 547–572.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3652636
Published: 01 December 2016
..., deforestation) are perceived; nostalgia for a pastoral past is honestly felt but recognized as impractical; devastation on a national, imperial, and even global scale is foretold; and hope for the earth’s future comes in a form largely symbolic or mythical—as vision more than prediction. Forster’s awareness...
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Between Habbakuk and Locke: Pain, Debt, and Economic Subjectivation in Paradise Lost

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Seo Hee Im
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3699760
Published: 01 March 2017
...Seo Hee Im Abstract Readers of Paradise Lost have argued that the epic registers England’s nascent imperialism negatively through its associations of trade with Satan. This essay rethinks Paradise Lost’ s relation to empire by tracing its involvement in the making of an early modern subjectivity...
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Love, Sex, and History in The Raj Quartet

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Allen Boyer
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (1): 64–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-46-1-64
Published: 01 March 1985
... signals orderly and bugler) who comprise a properly constituted riot squad. Scott is concerned, however, not so much with events, statistics, and factions as with forces and motives. He deals with the imperial relationship that bound Britain and India by using love as a metaphor. By love Scott...
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