...Marguerite Waller Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age . By Carole Levin and John Watkins. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 217 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Marguerite Waller is professor...

...Barbara Ladd Barbara Ladd is professor of English at Emory University. She is author of Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (1996) and Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora...

... and metrical vestiges. He is also coediting, with Jonathan Culler, a collection of essays tentatively titled Critical Rhythm . The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 . By Martin Meredith . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 . 274 pp . ©...

... : 1007 – 39 . Nation . 1889 . “Notes” [containing a review of W. J. Alexander’s book An Introduction to the Poetry of Robert Browning] . April 4 , 284 – 85 . Peterson William S. 1969 . Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society . Athens : Ohio University...

...Giuseppe Gazzola Abstract This essay traces the interrelationship between Italian literary canon formation and constructions of national identity in the literary histories of Girolamo Tiraboschi and Francesco De Sanctis. It examines both the ruptures and the continuities between eighteenth...

... 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...

... of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (1992),and Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting (2000) . Before National Literary History Richard Helgerson Unlike the missing twelfth century, recalled in Linda Georgianna s essay in this issue...

... are British literary history and American drama. Functionalizing Cultural Memory: Foundational British Literary History and the Construction of National Identity Margit Sichert When God wants a hard thing done, He tells it, not to His Britons, but to His Englishmen. Stanley Baldwin, On England...

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..., 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...

... and the Fictions of Identity (2003), and Romance (2004), as well as coeditor of two special issues of MLQ , “Postcolonialism and the Past” and “Genre and History.” She is working on a project on maurophilia and the European construction of Spain. Don Quijote 1 and the Forging of National History...

...Nancy Vogeley © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Italian Opera in Early National Mexico Nancy Vogeley Twelve years after Gioacchino Rossini’s opera Mahometto ZZ had its premiere in Naples, it was performed in full company in Mexico City. The event, on 15 June 1832...

...F.J. Levy Andrew Hadfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xvii + 265 pp. $65.00. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Reviews Literature, Politics, and National Identity: Refmmation to Renaissance. By Andrew Hadfield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...Antonio Benítez-Rojo © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Jose Joaquh Ferniindez de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project Anton io Ben i tez-Rojo R epeated efforts to represent as Spanish American novels certain texts written prior...

...Joseph Butwin Michael Ragussis. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. ix + 340 pp. $54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Reviews Figures of Conversion: “TheJewish Question ” and English National Identity. By Michael Ragussis. Durham...

...Ranjana Khanna Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects . By Emily Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xv + 285 pp.$49.00 cloth, $19.00 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-05Reviews.cs 11/13/00 2:08 PM Page 683...

...Benjamin T. Spencer Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 A NATIONAL LITERATURE : POST-CIVIL WAR DECADE By BENJAMIN T. SPENCER That after each demonstration of national power in the early decades of the Republic a demand arose for a national literature...

... colonial encounters and has recently completed a book titled Prolepses:Queer/Early/Modern . © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Queer Nation, Female Nation: Marguerite de Navarre, Incest, and the State in Early Modern France Carla Freccero ollowing Foucault, feminist scholars...

..., transcolonial, and autobiography studies. The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 . By Andrade Susan Z. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . ix + 259 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reviews Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise...

...Shuang Shen Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide . By Xiaojue Wang . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xiii + 359 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Modernity with a Cold...