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Reading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 429–453.
Published: 01 December 1994
...Jonathan Brody Kramnick Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Jonathan Brody Kramnick is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Johns Hopkins University. This essay is from his dissertation, “The Emergence of Literary History: Social Change and the Politics...
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Scorning the Gaze
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Katie Kadue [email protected] Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies . By Jonathan Kramnick . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2023 . viii + 129 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 It’s a common observation in the discipline...
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Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Nancy Yousef Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness . By Jonathan Kramnick . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . x + 198 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 The questions Kramnick raises about presuppositions underlying...
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Words about Words
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Timothy Yu I thought of this anecdote several times when reading Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies . Kramnick’s elegant polemic can be understood in large part as a thoughtful and sophisticated attempt to answer my colleague’s implied question: How can...
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Minding Concepts
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 81–86.
Published: 01 March 2025
... are not borrowing it from philosophy, and that referring to philosophy in describing it does not make it any more (or any less) valid (Sinykin and Winant forthcoming ). Like Kramnick, we have surveyed a broad range of close readings in the wild, and we describe how this foundational skill requires both craft...
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Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 87–94.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Kelly Wisecup Kramnick is not a scholar of Indigenous literatures, and his aim is not the analysis of texts, written or woven, but a description of method, so I’m also not interested in suggesting that he should have made a different claim about close reading. There are of course important...
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Introduction: Criticism Now
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 59–61.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Megan Heffernan [email protected] Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies . By Jonathan Kramnick . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2023 . viii + 129 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth...
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The Medium Is Not the Method
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 95–104.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Matt Seybold [email protected] Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies . By Jonathan Kramnick . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2023 . viii + 129 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 PoemTalk is a collaboration of the Kelly Writers...
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The Quotations We Value
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 105–115.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Milan Terlunen [email protected] Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies . By Jonathan Kramnick . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2023 . viii + 129 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 One of the interventions in Jonathan...
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Twentieth-Century Scholarship and the Eighteenth-Century Canon
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 395–414.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Howard D. Weinbrot Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700–1770. By Jonathan Brody Kramnick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. viii + 287 pp. $59.95; The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century. By Trevor...
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The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 361–367.
Published: 01 September 2024
... (Hacking stresses the historical creation of new beings from conceptual invention). A historical ontology of sorts was also offered in Jonathan Kramnick’s ( 2010 ) Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson , which construed the work of literary texts through a materialist, Epicurean ontology. Lee...
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Loving Literature: A Cultural History
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 602–606.
Published: 01 December 2016
... was “an amorous activity” (117), Lynch adduces two different anecdotes of book kissing and one (involving the young William Shenstone) of what can only be called book cuddling. Lynch’s intervention puts canon formation and literary professionalization in a new light. Jonathan Kramnick ( 1998 ) argues...
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Keeping Secrets
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 March 2019
... University Press . Kramnick Jonathan . 2017 . “ The Interdisciplinary Fallacy .” Representations , no. 140 : 67 – 83 . Levin Harry . 1963 . The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists . New York : Oxford University Press . McGurl Mark . 2009 . The Program Era...
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An Indian It-Narrative and the Problem of Circulation: Reconsidering a Useful Concept for Literary Study
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 373–396.
Published: 01 December 2018
... are the political code of a process we otherwise generalize as circulation. 1 For an analysis of how this worlding happens, see Cheah 2014 . 2 For transnational publics , see Hofmeyr 2005 ; for print culture , see Kramnick 2009 ; for system , see Siskin 2016 : 3–4. 3 I owe...
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Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 542–545.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with both of those general approaches, but Pettitt’s mode is more closely allied with a third kind of seriality studies that thinks of form in the sense most recently elaborated by such scholars as Benedict Anderson, Jonathan Kramnick, and Caroline Levine, as a mode of discourse that both reflects...
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“Everlastinge to Posterytie”: Chatterton's Spirited Youth
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2002
... it exploits the genealog-
ical metaphor, suggests how Chatterton threatens the critical fantasy of
26 For the most sophisticated account of the cultural logic that dictated the can-
onization of the English “ancients” (Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton) see Jonathan
Brody Kramnick, Making the English...
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Paradise Lost and the Secret of Lucretian Sufficiency
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 385–409.
Published: 01 September 2014
... William . 1997 . Milton’s Warring Angels: A Study of Critical Engagements . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Kramnick Jonathan . 2010 . Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Leijenhorst Cees . 2002...
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In the Literature Lab
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... selectionism across several disciplines, see Tsuda 2011 . For a critique of the more characteristic uptake of Darwin in American literary scholarship, one that seeks a more fully biotic account of literature, see Kramnick 2011 . For a longer history of attempts to apply some version of Darwinism to literary...
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Judging, Inevitably: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 159–180.
Published: 01 June 2015
... to the one between Hobbes and John Bramhall, so lucidly analyzed by Jonathan Kramnick ( 2010 : 27–38). Joseph Andrews is strongly positioned on one side of this debate. 5 There is by now a long and distinguished tradition of criticism that has recognized the importance of judgment, especially...
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Why Shakespeare? Irony and Liberalism in Canonization
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 33–64.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., Shakespeare, and Milton (see Kramnick 1998 ; Lipking 1970 ; Ross 1998 ; Weinbrot 1993 : 114–43). William Wordsworth’s “creed” was that “there were four models whom he must have continually before his eyes—Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare—and the first three were constantly in his hands...
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