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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 June 1941
... prottgC, Charles Montagu, dispensed at least part of his patronage to men who were useful in the Whig cause. It would be interesting to know whether Montagu’s patron ever utilized the system for similar political purposes, and if SO, to what lengths he went. Apropos of Charles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 June 1941
... check of dedications to Montagu against Mr. Harris’s very helpful checklist of dedications to Dorset shows that in 1696 Montagu and Dorset each received three; but in the next year Montagu stood five to Dorset’s two. One more point suggests itself. Mr. Harris treats Dorset’s well...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 393–396.
Published: 01 September 2003
... readings of Hutchinson, Macaulay, and Piozzi with accounts of the signiŽcance that his- toriography possessed for a trio of writers—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, and Austen herself—whom literary scholarship has arti- Žcially segregated from the historical enterprise. Taken together...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 486–488.
Published: 01 September 1942
...Ernest Bernbaum Montague Summers. London: The Fortune Press; New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. xx + 621. $10.00. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 for the light it throws on the sentimental background of the anti- slavery propaganda of the nineteenth century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 464–474.
Published: 01 December 1949
... tragMe, je la crois trb interessante, mais elle ne serait pas propre A notre thkAtre.4 When Montagu wrote to Walpole that the “boys” had discovered and read The Mysterious Mother,& Walpole was disturbed to hear that they had had access to it : I am sorry those boys got at my tragedy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 485–486.
Published: 01 September 1942
... initials (p. 108) are incorrect. But on the whole, the book presents a mass of obscure and unknown material with clarity and understanding. LOUISB. WRIGHT The Huntington Library The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel. By MONTAGUE...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 429–436.
Published: 01 December 1951
.... Its historical development and its chief characteristics have been investigated by a number of modern scholars ; and the major principles of the theory upon which the genre was founded have been delineated by such authors as J. B. Heidler, Montague Summers, and others.’ Yet, although...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 March 1941
... participated in writing the much more famous Sir Thomas More in which Shakespeare may have had a hand. The Reverend Montague Summers names a manuscript play, Amalasont, Queen of the Goths, by John Hughes, which was for- merly in the possession of the Reverend John Duncombe. Profes- sor Mark...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 505–529.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., artless, and “feminine” genius, women writers found him an appealing alter ego. Marianne Novy argues that early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Wortley Montagu identified with Shakespeare as an outsider with fluid ego boundaries and a “protean” ability to identify with scores...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 March 1950
... in playing upon his D. P. Vidyarfhy 113 readers. But it is rather difficult to accept as part of the joke his avowal in that note he left for his wife with Mrs. Montagu that he considers humanity and good nature more important than wit and humor. His...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 March 1950
.... Vidyarfhy 113 readers. But it is rather difficult to accept as part of the joke his avowal in that note he left for his wife with Mrs. Montagu that he considers humanity and good nature more important than wit and humor. His similar statements in his letters to Lydia, Mrs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 1987
...). No new methodological or theoretical territory, then, but a kind of criticism that many will find useful, characterizes The Conuerse olthe Pen. Redford’s three diptychs allow him to exercise his familiarity with the lives of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and William Cowper, Thomas Gray...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 404–407.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Simple , and Frances Brooke’s Emily Montague . She further claims that it influenced the lives of real women, like the Bluestockings, though acknowledging that there is no evidence of this. “Lifestyle as Legacy,” indeed, is the title of the concluding section, where Backscheider suggests...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 5–21.
Published: 01 March 1964
..., part an Angel; and is that Link in the Creation that joyns them both together.2 Man’s place remains secure in the chain of being; but Tyson has sensed danger, and Swift was almost surely aware of his findings. (Ashley Montagu has argued not only that Swift knew of Tyson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 165–168.
Published: 01 March 1942
... of a Detail in Poetic Design. Princeton University Press, 1941. Pp. 252. $3.50. Southworth, James Granville. Vauxhall Gardens. A Chapter in the Social History of England. New York: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1941. Pp. ix + 199. $2.75. Summers, Montague. The Gothic Quest. A History...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 March 2000
... actively to discover and sort out through careful reading practices. Often, too, the forces of similarity and difference play blatantly with the crucial terms that set up a poem. The male-female axis at the heart of Mary Wortley Montagu’s “Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 March 1987
... three diptychs allow him to exercise his familiarity with the lives of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and William Cowper, Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole, Boswell and Johnson. That familiarity leads in turn to some remarkable (and, yes, new) insights and linkages. His treatment of the effect...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 380–382.
Published: 01 December 1956
... Press, 1956. Pp. x + 177. $3.25. Halsband, Robert. Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Oxford: At the Clar- endon Press, 1956. Pp. xiii + 313. $7.00. Harrison, Thomas P. They Tell of Birds: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1956. Pp. xviii + 159. $3.00...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 458–460.
Published: 01 December 1953
... as professor of poetry at Oxford, he was the friend or acquaintance of most of the great men of his time. Like Gray and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Spence appears as a sympathetic novel reader, a friend of Richardson’s and an admirer of Tom Jones. It is perhaps right that the scope...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 458–460.
Published: 01 December 1953
... was the friend or acquaintance of most of the great men of his time. Like Gray and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Spence appears as a sympathetic novel reader, a friend of Richardson’s and an admirer of Tom Jones. It is perhaps right that the scope of this biography is somewhat rigorously limited...