... Waste Land (2001) and is at work on a study of the visual arts, spectatorship, and modern literature. MLQ 62.4 07 North 10/24/01 5:53 PM Page 407 Virtual Histories: The Year as Literary Period Michael North hough the year 2000 ended only a year ago...

...Yomi Braester The essay examines films produced during the Seventeen Years period (1949–66) and suggests that political campaigns may be akin to film genres. Insofar as generic distinctions of theme and style are produced according to the shifting interests of critics and producers, campaigns have...

.... LAWRENCEM. PRICE University of California First Editiom of the German Romantic Period in American Li- braries. Edited by FREDERICKW. J. HEUSER. New York : Mod- ern Language Association of America ; London : Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1942. Pp. viii + 48. Despite...

...Marshall Brown © 2001 University of Washington 2001 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. MLQ 62.4 01 Intro 10/29/01 11:34 AM Page 309 Periods and Resistances Marshall Brown...

..., of the first volume of the new Oxford English Literary History (forthcoming). Periodization and Politics: The Case of the Missing Twelfth Century in English Literary History Linda Georgianna F or several years I have been at work on a narrative literary history of medieval England from the beginnings...

... in medieval and early modern English texts. Race, Periodicity, and the (Neo-) Middle Ages Lisa Lampert n the last decade there has been a notable body of work on premod- Iern racial and ethnic representation. In medieval studies, questions of race and racism, anti-Semitism, and premodern...

... Carlyle and the Saint-Sintonians : The Concept of Historical Period- icity. By HILL SHINE.Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xiii + 191. $2.25. Mr. Shine’s monograph is a worthy addition to the studies which have appeared on the foreign sources of Carlyle’s thought. Its...

... of the South Atlantic Quarterly that he edited with Janet Halley, is forthcoming in book form, as is The Theorist's Mother: Origination from Marx to Derrida . The Poetry of the Future; or, Periodizing the Nineteenth Century Andrew Parker C’est, en quelque sorte, parce qu’il y...

...” or degraded version of periodization; perhaps for this reason, it is also the perfect narrative mode for the present's historical self-consciousness. Ellis's novels American Psycho and Glamorama expose the contradictory link between the ephemeral details of consumer life and the essence of a single, self...

... Press , 2010 . ix + 340 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Review Article Modernism, Periodically Matthew Levay The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. 1, Britain and Ireland, 1880 – 1955. Edited by Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker...

...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...

...Susan Stanford Friedman Abstract Can literary history be done without the conventional reliance on linear periodization? What might a literary history of modernism look like without the usual periodization of roughly 1890–1940? This essay reviews the arguments for and against periodization...

...Jon Klancher Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies . By Underwood Ted . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2013 . viii + 199 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 One of many questions raised...

... York : Oxford University Press, 1944. Pp. xvi + 190. $2.50. Criticism in American Periodicals of the Works of Henry James from 1866 to 1916. By RICHARDNICHOLAS FOLEY. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1944. Pp. 169. Professor Matthiessen’s study uses fragments...

... Studies of British Newspapers and Periodicals from Their Beginning to 1800: A Bibliography. By KATHERINEKIRTLEY WEED and RICHMONDPUGH BOND. Chapel Hill: University of North Caro- lina Press, Studies in Philology, Extra Series No. 2, 1946. Pp. vi + 233. $2.50, paper ; $3.50, cloth...

... in the Trade of Book arid Bible Printing, Periodical Production, Jobbing. By P. M. HANDOVER.Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. 224. $4.75. The main title of this series of lectures is misleading, and the subtitle is not much more accurate. What we have is an elementary picture...

...Edward A. Bloom Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 SYMBOLIC NAMES IN JOHNSON’S PERIODICAL ESSAYS By EDWARDA. BLOOM One of the most deceptively simple of all literary practices is the metaphorical application of proper names for the delineation...

...Marissa Greenberg Abstract Revolution as an act of turning is a crucial yet overlooked feature of Milton’s conception of historical periods. This essay, by examining Milton’s imagery of revolution, seeks to challenge conventional associations of Milton and periodization with teleological...

...James Nohrnberg Abstract Milton’s thinking and oeuvre divide historical time and place the poet and his subjects on the verges of periodizing metamorphoses: different eras of epistemology, religious dispensations, archaeologies of knowledge, kinds of global consciousness, rival explanations...