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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 143–147.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Joycelyn Moody Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies . By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv + 423 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Joycelyn Moody is associate professor of English at Saint Louis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 281–313.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... But London’s literary societies were important preprofessional gatherings for the appreciation and research of vernacular literature at a time when universities restricted who could study and what could be studied. Forman contributed to other London societies and organized for them dramatic readings...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 137–152.
Published: 01 June 2003
... edited Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents (1997) and the volumes Literature and the Nation (1998) and Law and Literature(2002) for REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature . National Literary Histories: Imagined Communities or Imagined Societies? Brook Thomas...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 279–296.
Published: 01 June 2014
... account of the evolution of English studies. This essay builds and tests the theory that literary societies were agents for disseminating not only literature but scholarly practice, spreading productive debate about curricula, relevance, and the public benefit of literature over the English-speaking world...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of Pittsburgh. She is author of Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (1997) and recent essays about literary culture, print culture, and civil society. Her book Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century is forthcoming...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 225–246.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Eleanor Courtemanche Abstract In the late nineteenth century the literary genre of utopia enjoyed a boom inspired by the success of Edward Bellamy’s 1888 Looking Backward, 2000–1887 . These stories, including novels by William Morris and H. G. Wells, often featured a cicerone who explained how...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
... contribute to society’s well-being and demonstrates the centrality of empiricist political theory for the modernist novel. Through close readings of The Invisible Man and Love and Mr. Lewisham , and broader discussion of Wells’s oeuvre, his engagement with empiricist values, conflicts, and literary forms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 61–79.
Published: 01 March 2008
... admitted that he had turned to Marxism to find not only a
method of analyzing society but also a means to self-reflection. Most
young Marxists in the literary field were members of the former Cre
ation Society (Chuangzao She) and the Sun Society (Taiyang She), such
as Guo Moruo (1892 – 1978). Guo...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
...) as a victim of secularism, it is also recuperated as an essential element of that transcendent moral, literary, and historical heritage that supposedly holds together Western society.” As part of his description of the eighteenth-century reinvention of the Bible, Sheehan points to the recuperative...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 119–127.
Published: 01 June 2014
...: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Trans-Atlantic Exchange . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Murray Heather . 1996 . Working in English: History, Institution, Resources . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . ———. 2002 . Come, Bright Improvement! The Literary Societies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 185–200.
Published: 01 June 1997
...: the Women Writers’ Suffrage League (WWSL).
The league attracted some of the most distinguished writers of the day,
but its membership was not restricted to them. That it was a writers’
group and not a literary society may indicate how it differed in nature
and scope from other contemporary groups...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 149–170.
Published: 01 June 2014
... a recent past president of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. She is author of Working in English: History, Institution, Resources (1996) and Come Bright Improvement! The Literary Societies of Nineteenth-Century Ontario (2002) and, with Yannick Portebois...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 March 1942
... proportion.
The book not only offers the interest of an inedited text but
also provides the first monograph on Le Blanc, and successfully
places this writer, during both his youth and mature life, in the
literary society of his time.
JEAN DAVID
Ut...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 262–264.
Published: 01 June 1947
... Press, 1947. Issucd in co-operation with the Literary
Society of Chicago by the Department of Germanic Languages and Litera-
tures at the UniLcrsity of Chicago. Pp. ix 4- 252. $1.00.
Herder, Johann Gottfried. Journal Meiner Reise im Jahre 1769. Edited by A.
Gillies. Oxford : Basil...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 292–294.
Published: 01 September 1988
... Kendrick’s “Criseyde,” appear to be look-
ing at the reciter rather than at the supposed actors (again, in contrast to the
Terence representation). Contextiializing the scene as a puy performance
seems gratuitous-why would the artist hypothesize a particular “literary
society” (p. 173) when reading...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 124–129.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary
Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
xiv + 423 pp.
Immersed for four hundred arresting pages in Elizabeth McHenry’s Forgotten
Readers, I found myself titillated by its fulfi lled promise...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 115–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary
Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
xiv + 423 pp.
Immersed for four hundred arresting pages in Elizabeth McHenry’s Forgotten
Readers, I found myself titillated by its fulfi lled promise...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 119–124.
Published: 01 March 2005
...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary
Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
xiv + 423 pp.
Immersed for four hundred arresting pages in Elizabeth McHenry’s Forgotten
Readers, I found myself titillated by its fulfi lled promise...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary
Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
xiv + 423 pp.
Immersed for four hundred arresting pages in Elizabeth McHenry’s Forgotten
Readers, I found myself titillated by its fulfi lled promise...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary
Societies. By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
xiv + 423 pp.
Immersed for four hundred arresting pages in Elizabeth McHenry’s Forgotten
Readers, I found myself titillated by its fulfi lled promise...
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