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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Kevin Brazil Abstract The work of Don DeLillo and Philip Roth has been characterized as a turn to writing novels about lateness in a style that for both authors tends toward “less and less.” Their work manifests a relationship between lateness and style that departs both from canonical accounts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (4): 352–363.
Published: 01 December 1974
...Robert P. Adams Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE ELIZABETHAN TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES By ROBERTP. ADAMS My aim in this essay...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 272–274.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Fiona Somerset Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England . By Catherine Sanok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvii + 256 pp. University of Washington 2009 Fiona Somerset is associate professor of English at Duke...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 197–226.
Published: 01 June 2005
... . Child-Killers and the Competition between Late Victorian Theater and the Novel Renata Kobetts Miller he doldrums in which British drama stalled during the Victorian Tperiod have consigned it to a marginal position in literary study. But by neglecting the theater, about which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 191–194.
Published: 01 June 1977
... of Eriglisli Duiru~i in the Late Severiteentli Ceriiio‘y. By ROBERTD. HUME.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xv + 525 pp. $37.50. Because Robert Hume has given us an often excellent chronicle of changes in English popular dramatic entertainment from 1660 to 1710, I wish he had hit on a more...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 513–514.
Published: 01 December 1943
... of everyday affairs. The study would be much more useful if indexed. WILLARDHALLAM BONNER University of Bufalo A Comparison Between the Two Stages. A Late Restoration Book of the Theatre. Edited with an Introduction and notes, by STARING B...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 102–104.
Published: 01 March 1991
... for failing to read with the necessary “imaginative Sympathy” [p. 1391) to late twentiethcentury readers, who occupy historically different positions? Hein- richs’s material could give rise to these and other considerations of how, why, and within what limits we reconstruct conventions in order to read...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 490–493.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Leila Walker Reference Roy Arundhati . 2020 . “ The Pandemic Is a Portal .” Financial Times , April 3 . https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca . Frequent interjections of presentism disrupt the flow of argument throughout Late Romanticism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 325–331.
Published: 01 December 1955
...Hugh W. Hetherington Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE HIRAM MELVILLE By HUGHW. HETHERINGTON In the New York Times for October 6, 1891, “The Late Hiram Melville” was the heading of a column which contained a letter en...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (1): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 1992
...Rita Copeland Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 LYDGATE, WWES, AND THE SCIENCE OF RHETORIC IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES Bp RITA COPELAND In literary histories and critical studies of the English fifteenth cen- tury it has...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 555–557.
Published: 01 December 1940
.... Ttiese passages finely conclude what is, despite its inequalities, a t.ery useful and reliable volume. PAULH. KOCHEK University of Washington The Epistolary Norel in the Late Eighteenth Century, a DescrLp- tizfc adBibliographicaf Study...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 468–474.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Jessica Burstein Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars . By Tyrus Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xii + 263 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.4 09 Reviews 10/24/01 5:54 PM Page 453 Reviews...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 June 2008
... Thinking (1994), and Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature (2001). © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance . By Robert N. Watson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 436 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 March 1969
....” WALTERR. DAVIS University of Notre Dame Ben Jonson’s “Dotages”: A Reconsideration of the Late Plays. By LARRY S. CHAMPION.Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. 156 pp. $6.50. In this useful, short book Larry Champion asserts that Jonson’s late plays are not different...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 341–353.
Published: 01 June 1996
...José E. Limón © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States: Caballero, a Late Border Romance Jose E. Lim6n n the nineteenth century the romance novel became a socially sig- Inificant literary presence in Latin America...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 386–401.
Published: 01 September 1969
... CHARACTER IN DICKENS’ LATE NOVELS By THOMASKELLY In recent years the treatment of character in the novels of Charles Dickens has undergone a marked reassessment. The critical obiter dicta of George Eliot, Henry James, and E. M. Forster, which imputed vari...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 377–392.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... He is completing a book on the cultural history and poetics of anonymity during the period 1695-1835. MLQ 62.4 05 Griffin 10/24/01 5:52 PM Page 377 The Age of “The Age of” Is Over: Johnson and New Versions of the Late Eighteenth Century Robert J. Griffin...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in literary studies, film studies, and the arts more generally. It is a valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on late modernism, to which it adds a compelling interpretive frame. It should also appeal to scholars working on the intersection of geopolitics, the state, warfare, and the arts, and its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 493–494.
Published: 01 December 1964
...Glauco Cambon Aldo D. Scaglione. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. x + 250 pp. $6.00. Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 REVIEWS Nature and Love in the Late Middle Ages. By ALDOD. SCAGLIONE.Berkeley and Los...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 383–399.
Published: 01 December 1964
...Alan C. Dessen Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 VOLPONE AND THE LATE MORALITY TRADITION By ALANC. DESSEN Volpone has in recent years been the object of intensive scholarly study, a significant part of which has been devoted...