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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2022
... novel that discuss Gaskell’s works, see Gallagher 1985 : chap. 7; Kestner 1985 : 163–70; Kettle ( 1958 ) 1982; Tillotson ( 1954 ) 1971: 202–23; and Williams ( 1958 ) 1983: 87–109. Ruth (1853), which concerns the fortunes of an unwed mother, is a social-problem novel but not an industrial one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 137–157.
Published: 01 June 2015
... causal linkages between human and nonhuman across time, while remaining within the bounds of literary realism. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is read as a contemporary historical novel adequate to this task. The character Sonmi-451’s encounter with a natural landscape ravaged by human industry encapsulates...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the Anglophone publishing industry,” novels loom so large in histories of reading and of print (139). When Novels Were Books , compact and erudite, aims directly at this mismatch, addressing it from a book historian’s point of view. There is an additional embarrassment targeted by Stein’s book: the claim...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Vincenzo Cuoco's novel Plato in Italy in the local context of the transformation of the publishing industry in Italy and in the European context of Bonapartism. Fiction acquires here a special kind of value: that of reimagining a radical democracy betrayed by Napoleonic restoration. Roberto M...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 207–228.
Published: 01 March 2000
... industry (a good term of comparison for eigh-
teenth- and nineteenth-century novels):
Film audiences make hits or flops . . . not by revealing preferences they
already have, but by discovering what they like. When they see a movie
they like, they make...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and a
despotic system in which low wages and industrial corporatization enervated
130 MLQ March 2007
the workforce. Norris’s and London’s short stories and novels established the
literary appearance of the Asiatic worker, not “as a Self-consolidating Other...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 111–114.
Published: 01 March 2007
...-nineteenth century because the industrial novel
now occupies its former morpho-space,” but this is not a conclusion based on
facts easily agreed on by all, and it certainly says nothing about Moby-Dick.4
4 To his discussion of graphs Moretti appends “A Note on the Taxonomy of the
Forms” (31...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 March 2007
...-nineteenth century because the industrial novel
now occupies its former morpho-space,” but this is not a conclusion based on
facts easily agreed on by all, and it certainly says nothing about Moby-Dick.4
4 To his discussion of graphs Moretti appends “A Note on the Taxonomy of the
Forms” (31...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 March 2007
...-nineteenth century because the industrial novel
now occupies its former morpho-space,” but this is not a conclusion based on
facts easily agreed on by all, and it certainly says nothing about Moby-Dick.4
4 To his discussion of graphs Moretti appends “A Note on the Taxonomy of the
Forms” (31...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 March 2007
...-nineteenth century because the industrial novel
now occupies its former morpho-space,” but this is not a conclusion based on
facts easily agreed on by all, and it certainly says nothing about Moby-Dick.4
4 To his discussion of graphs Moretti appends “A Note on the Taxonomy of the
Forms” (31...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and a
despotic system in which low wages and industrial corporatization enervated
130 MLQ March 2007
the workforce. Norris’s and London’s short stories and novels established the
literary appearance of the Asiatic worker, not “as a Self-consolidating Other...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 March 2007
...-nineteenth century because the industrial novel
now occupies its former morpho-space,” but this is not a conclusion based on
facts easily agreed on by all, and it certainly says nothing about Moby-Dick.4
4 To his discussion of graphs Moretti appends “A Note on the Taxonomy of the
Forms” (31...
Journal Article
“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
...)— On the Lot and Off knowingly set itself apart from the typical adapted fare. Novels such as Harry Leon Wilson’s Merton of the Movies (1922) and Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) tell stories of their protagonists’ successful incorporation into the film industry as allegories...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 547–572.
Published: 01 December 2016
... underscores Howards End’ s status as a “condition of England” novel that speaks to an array of alarming sociohistorical changes—urbanization, industrialism, the suburbs, the motor car, flux, speed, noise, “modernity” writ large—and takes up what Lionel Trilling ( 1971 [1943]: 118) argued was the book’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 128–131.
Published: 01 March 2017
...John Plotz References Jonsson Fredrik Albritton . 2012 . “ The Industrial Revolution in the Anthropocene .” Journal of Modern History 84 , no. 3 : 679 – 96 . Ruskin John . 1908 . “ The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century .” In The Works of John Ruskin , edited...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 394–397.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to its lowliest form accelerates the genre’s lack of recognition, since the books most destined to last do not become associated with the genre, while the absence of recognition helps maintain the divide between industrial-type novelizations , where a screenplay’s framework is more or less transcribed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 395–397.
Published: 01 December 1980
... Novels: The Fables of Anon.
The industry enables DiBattista to introduce her own particular perspective on
Woolf while relying on her reader’s familiarity not only with the fiction but also
with some amount of biography and a fairly sound appreciation of Woolf‘s in-
terest in “literary succession...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to the industry’s official market surveys and reports.” 8 These are my estimates, well shaded toward the conservative side. One may arrive at higher or lower figures, depending on assumptions about the degree of duplication in the new novels published by the United States, United Kingdom, and other...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 365–382.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., Romanticism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. His
thesis sounds simplistic: the realistic novel through Dickens represents
the city in mechanistic and financial terms; the complexity of the
industrial city is found in the modernism of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce;
and the inscrutable nature...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 June 2023
... not only the profit-maximizing practices of the meat industry but “the reliability in television and the power of corporate sponsorship to determine content and truth” (358). Jane’s efforts are successful, and My Year of Meats would thus seem to imagine films like hers and novels like Ozeki’s as forms...
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