...Blakey Vermeule Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century . By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 273 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early...

...Christopher Hill Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. By Maeda Ai. Edited by James A. Fujii. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xv + 391 pp.; Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature By Kamei Hideo. Edited by Michael Bourdaghs. Ann Arbor: Center...

..., and the Ethics of Identity. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity . By Tomiko Yoda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,2004. xvi + 277 pp. Reviews Eine Literaturgeschichte Mitteleuropas. By Zoran...

... Modernity Monika Kaup n Latin America and the Caribbean, modernity is haunted by the Ireturn of its antithetical, premodern other: the baroque. Brazil- ian modernism, to name one dramatic example, is closely linked to the recuperation of Brazil’s historical baroque: the modern Brazilian...

... in Henry V” and “Law/Form/History: Shakespeare's Verdict in All Is True” appeared in the September 2000 and March 2002 issues of MLQ. University of Washington 2007 Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity . By Gordon Teskey. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. vi + 214...

...Chengzhou He Because the theories of Chinese modernity are mainly organized around a masculine norm and pay insufficient attention to the specificity of women's lives and experiences, it is of great significance to carry out research on women's complex and changing relationships to the political...

...Juliet Shields Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640 – 1940 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. University of Washington 2009 Juliet Shields is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington...

...Richard Block Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting . By Peter M. McIsaac. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xiii + 322 pp. University of Washington 2009 Richard Block is associate professor of Germanics at the University...

...Geoffrey Turnovsky Modesty and other “antiauthorial” conventions (anonymity, self-effacing prefaces, refusal to profit) tend to be viewed as retrograde concessions to the outdated norms of an antiquated cultural field, which a more modern, assertive, and critical authorial figure will learn...

... in the March 1998 issue of MLQ . Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity . By Simpson David . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . viii + 278 pp. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 Reviews A Brief History of the Artist from God...

... of America  is resolutely postmodern in eschewing any such argument or thesis, though it unfortunately gestures toward clichéd ideas, such as “the Modern Language Quarterly 72:4 (December 2011) © 2011 by University of Washington 538 MLQ...

...Rita Felski Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism . By Jennifer Fleissner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 338 pp. University of Washington 2006 Rita Felski is chair of comparative literature at the University of Virginia. Her most recent...

...Lee Morrissey Abstract Periodized “modernity” unnecessarily polarizes Milton’s reception. His experience of modernity in the seventeenth century confounds the Enlightenment distinctions usually made about modernity. The periodized idea of modernity that continues to shape the study of Milton...

... of the Italians , ca. 1824) and in the “Palinodia al marchese Gino Capponi” (“Recantation for Marchese Gino Capponi,” 1835) are intertwined with his powerful defense of the social function of poetry. Leopardi exploits the aesthetic tensions resulting from the historical rift between ancient and modern literary...

... it an extraordinarily valuable resource for students of twentieth-century Ameri- can poetry. Ursula K. Heise, Columbia University The Ghosts of Modernity. By Jean-Michel Rabatk. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xxii t 258 pp. $49.95. Modernity, Jean-Michel...

...Eric Rothstein © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-03Rothstein.ak 5/26/00 3:51 PM Page 359 Broaching a Cultural Logic of Modernity Eric Rothstein rand narratives” are now out and “local knowledge,” in. All to the Ggood...

...Robyn Warhol warhol.1@osu.edu Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848 . By Clare Pettitt . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . xviii + 348 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Seriality studies has blossomed over the past...

...Shaj Mathew Abstract This essay proposes the theory of multiple simultaneous temporalities as a constitutive feature of global modernism. It spotlights varieties of heterogeneous time—outside but alongside the homogeneous empty time of clocks and calendars—in modernist literature. These overlapping...

...Jason Groves jagroves@uw.edu The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany . By Adrian Daub . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . 253 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 The Dynastic Imagination...

...: Constituting American Modernity . By Mallios Peter Lancelot . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . xiv + 468 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reviews The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. By Stephen Greenblatt. New York: Norton, 2011. 356 pp...