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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 499–501.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Trevor Ross Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660 - 1781 . By Richard Terry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. vii + 354 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama. By Wendy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 396–398.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Virgil Nemoianu Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism . By Ann Rigney. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. 209 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 396 MLQ September 2003 and traditional...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 329–340.
Published: 01 September 2004
... at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is author of Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (1997) and coeditor of British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002). The Postcolonial Past Barbara Fuchs and David J. Baker When? istoricism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 June 2004
... on philologists and national thought in nineteenth-century Europe. Literary Historicism: Romanticism, Philologists, and the Presence of the Past Joep Leerssen Nous entrons dans l’avenir à reculons.—Paul Valéry etween 1780 and 1840 a huge rediscovery of the early medieval ver- Bnacular...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 443–456.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her publications include Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (1977) and Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992). She was president of the Modern Language Association in 2003. The Anticolonial Past Mary Louise Pratt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 457–480.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the Postcolonial Past Robert Markley It is very usual for Civiliz’d and Polite Nations to look upon all others as bar- barous. . . . Europe now being the Seat of Learning, and Science, wherein learned Academies are set up for the Discovery of Hidden Secrets in Nature, we take all...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 481–504.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of media technologies on postcolonial national identity and culture. Predicting the Past Deepika Bahri The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. “Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?” he asked. “Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (3): 400–404.
Published: 01 September 2006
... The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France . By Maurice Samuels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 280 pp. Reviews Redefining Elizabethan Literature. By Georgia E. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 261 pp. Georgia E...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Why study the past? Because we must. The computer seems to offer us access to simultaneity. We must therefore study the past “broadly.” Primo Levi offers us an example. But the access to simultaneity is a simulacrum, for the computing (intending) subject is determined...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 549–552.
Published: 01 December 2011
... “invented” or anything the contributors wanted to muse on. Where past literary histories, such as Vernon Louis Parrington’s monu- mental Main Currents in American Thought (1927 – 29), offered a master nar- rative to interpret the shape of American expressive culture, A New Literary History...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 453–474.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Stephen Best A good deal of recent scholarship into the slave past proclaims that the past’s political significance resides in its continuity with our present, finding both ethical moment and critical motivation in a recovery imperative that seeks to continue, reanimate, or complete the political...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Florian Gargaillo Abstract In a review of T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral , Stevie Smith lamented that “so many writers of these times, which need courage and the power of criticism, and coolness, should find their chief delight in terrifying themselves and their readers with past echoes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 119–127.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and her project Lessons from the Past: The History of Academic English , with Jennifer McDonell, has come to the end of the beginning. Jennifer McDonell is senior lecturer in English in the School of Arts at the University of New England (Australia). She has published on the work of both...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 457.
Published: 01 September 2014
... © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Erratum for Leigh Dale and Jennifer McDonell, “Lessons from the Past MLQ 75 (2014): 119–27. On page 124, the last two sentences of the full paragraph should read as follows: “Almost twenty years after Cultural Capital,” Rachel Sagner Buurma...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 48–60.
Published: 01 March 1984
...Susan M. Griffin Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 SEEING DOUBLES REFLECTIONS OF THE SELF IN JAMES’S SENSE OF THE PAST By SUSANM. GKIFFIN The Sense ofthe Past has traditionally...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 467–470.
Published: 01 September 1969
... shortcomings, however, this is a good and highly stimulating book. GERHARDBAUMCAERTEL University of Washington Zsauc Bashewis Singer and the Eternal Past. By IRVINGH. BUCHEN.New York: New York University Press; London: University of London...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 June 1970
...Elsa Nettels Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 THE AMBASSADORS AND THE SENSE OF THE PAST By ELSANETTELS Lambert Strether, the central character of The Ambassadors, is Henry James’s most detailed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 227–246.
Published: 01 September 1973
...Frank J. Kearful “ ’TIS PAST RECOVERY” TRAGIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN ALL FOR LOVE BY FRANKJ. KEARFUL The familiar case against Restoration attempts to “improve” Shake- speare was put most comprehensively and damningly by Hazelton Spencer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 106.
Published: 01 March 1952
... The Writing of Past and Present: A Study of Carlyle’s Manwm‘pts. By GRACEJ. CALDER.New Haven : Yale University Studies in English, Vol. 112 ; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1949. Pp. viii + 214. $3.75. This is a detailed and painstaking study of the first draft...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 386–395.
Published: 01 December 1988
...Paul A. Olson REVIEWS Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature. By LEEPATTERSON. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xiv + 239 pp. $35.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. Lee Patterson begins Negotiating the Past...