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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 263–294.
Published: 01 September 1991
... and John Whale (New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 140–59. THE PICTURESQUE AND THE AFFECTIONATE
IN WOLLSTONECRAFT’S LETTERS FROMNORWAYX
BJ JEANNE MOSKAL
In his Memoirs of the Author of “A Vindication of the fights of Woman”
(1798), William Godwin...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Timothy Heimlich Abstract This essay argues that the aesthetic category named the picturesque was first systematized in a Welsh colonial context and that picturesque looking always reflects, to some degree, its initially imperialist function. While the picturesque rapidly acceded to a preeminent...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 33–57.
Published: 01 March 1999
...
motion-inscribed in the topographies of commonsense positivism.
Thus it achieved the aspiration of the picturesque movement: it real-
ized the “innocent”vision that inhabits so much picturesque theory, a
vision absolutely contingent on nature. It is no coincidence that pho-
tography followed so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 376–389.
Published: 01 December 1975
... its companion, Descriptive Sketches, have often bee11 cte-
clared important failures. But what exactly constitutes their impor-
tance, arid what occasioned their failure? Our impatience with the two
poems, bolstered by Wordsworth’s deriuiiciatiotis of the picturesque
(first printed...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (3): 422.
Published: 01 September 1940
..., 1939. Pp. 336.
When Combe had his impoverished Dr. Syntax resolve, as a
means of improving his state, to “ride and write, and sketch and
print,” to “prose it here, [and] verse it there, and picturesque it
ev’rywhere,” he paid his respects to an aesthetic movement in which...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 301–314.
Published: 01 December 1960
....
Not a word was said on the road till we arrived there, when my father took me
by the hand, and led me, in silence, up the picturesque and romantic road which
leads to the top of the hill, from whence a long and magnificent extent of scen-
ery, with the vast Severn sweeping onward, in morning light...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 575–579.
Published: 01 December 1993
...,
the observed mechanics and the philosophical observer (a social, not an
occupational class). His example is W. H. Pyne’s Microcosm: A Picturesque
Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c. of Great Britain, in a series
of above a Thousand Groups of Small Figures for the Embellish?nent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 367–380.
Published: 01 December 1977
... of
the picturesque, which prize scenes whose features seem to be carefully
placed in relation to one another so as to form a total image that strikes
the viewer as balanced and complete.ls Whether “sentimental tourist”
or “brooding analyst,” James was consistently a seeker...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 422–426.
Published: 01 June 2000
...-
cursive practices: the picturesque in landscape painting and locodescriptive
poetry, the educational writings of Bell, Coleridge, and Wollstonecraft, and
the historical and sociological sublime(s) of Burke and Malthus. Through
such juxtapositions it teases out...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 305–327.
Published: 01 September 1995
... its beauty may fairly lay claim” (Prose
Works 2:155). While in both documents he makes certain specific
assumptions about a historical tradition of the picturesque defining
this group, he is not by any means assuming some notional posterity
but specific persons existing at present...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 March 1942
... of the Renaissance they had, through long posturing as solid
facts, become accepted as received experiences, and as such they
helped to guide the intellectual conquest of the New World as well
as the actual conduct of an expedition. Their picturesqueness and
freedom from check offered riches like...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 March 1960
... Schonhcitrn von Haglry, Envil und den Lcasozoes (Leipzig,
1776 [sic
Raymond Immemahr 9
sublime” (Letters, I, 70 f Heely follows the general tendency of the
period to associate the romantic, the sublime, and the picturesque. A
situation...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 426–432.
Published: 01 June 2000
...-
cursive practices: the picturesque in landscape painting and locodescriptive
poetry, the educational writings of Bell, Coleridge, and Wollstonecraft, and
the historical and sociological sublime(s) of Burke and Malthus. Through
such juxtapositions it teases out...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 419–421.
Published: 01 June 2000
...-
cursive practices: the picturesque in landscape painting and locodescriptive
poetry, the educational writings of Bell, Coleridge, and Wollstonecraft, and
the historical and sociological sublime(s) of Burke and Malthus. Through
such juxtapositions it teases out...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 415–419.
Published: 01 June 2000
...-
uating Wordsworth’s project in relation to an entire nexus of class-based dis-
cursive practices: the picturesque in landscape painting and locodescriptive
poetry, the educational writings of Bell, Coleridge, and Wollstonecraft, and
the historical and sociological...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 43–46.
Published: 01 March 1949
... himself. Applied
to him, that title is now a critical commonplace. Few writers, indeed,
have striven harder to create new metaphors. As evidence that Renard
was not only delighted by his own inventions, but that he also was
pleased to find new and picturesque metaphors in the works of othei...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 251–266.
Published: 01 September 1983
... to the non-
emergent, compositional nature of the picture.
It is not surprising that Hazlitt, himself a painter who responded
keenly to picturesque poetry,’ preferred painting to sculpture. I
9 See Alexander Dorner, The Way beyond “Arl,” rev. ed. (New York: New York University
Press, 1958...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 22–33.
Published: 01 March 1964
... hill, and mountain above mountain
even to the clouds, forming the most stupendious [sic] theatre, pre-
senting the most sublime scenes that human sight can possibly make
room The new word “picturesque” came in at about this time,
16 John Brown, Collection of Poems, Dodsley...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (4): 477–488.
Published: 01 December 1946
...
designate as picturesque; the end, complete harmony. The Greeks reared a
structure, which, in its parts and as a whole, filled the mind with the calm and
elevated impression of perfect beauty and symmetrical proportion. The mod-
erns, blending materials, produced one striking whole. This may...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 155–162.
Published: 01 June 1944
..., a milder criticism is due: they show con-
siderable originality and picturesque grace. He was an imitator of Herbert
. . . whom he resembles in the negligence of his versification, and the inappro-
priateness of his imagery. But he occasionally swept the harp with a master’s
hand. . . . 10...
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