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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 605–609.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in popular print culture and the novel. Her current project focuses on the gendered cosmopolitanism of a network of late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century European women writers. The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime . By Turnovsky Geoffrey...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 97–100.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Elena Russo Reviews
Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel. By Nicholas D. Paige.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. xiv + 284 pp.
Before Fiction offers a spirited and brisk argument in favor of a new history of
the novel, but it also critiques the idea...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 319–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Jeffrey T. Schnapp The essay explores how literary practices of listing, cataloging, and inventorying are altered by the shift from classical, premodern, and early modern regimes of data scarcity (within which every piece of information is considered valuable a priori) to modern regimes of data...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 219–246.
Published: 01 June 2016
... between the hidden and the shown. Quite the opposite, Racine’s plays dramatize and reflect on two opposing regimes of theatricality. Each in its own way, Bérénice , Mithridate , and Phèdre contrast the political force of the “portrait of the king” and the emotional efficiency of theater as an art...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 203–226.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of abstract equivalence and separation. In the face of a regime of capitalist abstraction and its relentless downward mobility, Hardy upholds not the continuity or intimacy of work but the less certain affiliations of precarious and uprooted surplus populations. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 461–492.
Published: 01 December 2011
... expectations and desires of readers to whom the gestures were addressed. It argues that if the aristocratic airs adopted by writers situate them squarely in the Old Regime, the readerly practices to which they appealed (and which they in turn shaped)—individualized and moralized as well as commercialized—might...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 275–302.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Hal Gladfelder Abstract The advent of a new political regime in Italy in the 1790s led to decrees banning castrati from the stage and the closure of the singing academies where they taught. But seventy years later the composer Gioacchino Rossini looked back to the castrati as the last adepts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
... social situation. Drawing on recent work on the politics of style, this essay argues that Gissing’s narrative style is best understood in terms of two motivating forces powerfully at work in late nineteenth-century Britain: an ascendant popular culture and the massive expansion of the imperial regime...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 141–164.
Published: 01 June 2022
... ideology of Mussolini’s regime, then at its height. Like the futurists, whose ideas they appropriated, the fascists idealized technological progress, committing themselves to what Faulkner’s novel calls into question. The translation of foreign literature under fascism was a complex and dynamic field...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 151–163.
Published: 01 June 1996
... to women in the plans of the government over
which I preside, and the new state that it proposes to install in the
future.”2
It takes little more than Pinochet’s opening sentence to grasp the
raw authoritarianism that characterized the military regime, especially
in its early, triumphal...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 341–353.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., in agreement with Derrida, is not from verbal to visual but to a radically different medium, the new “regime of telecommunications.” That regime sends magically to my computer or to my iPhone not only visual material but also new versions of verbal material that used to be available only on paper. That comes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 317–330.
Published: 01 December 2001
... inaccuracy or
the fictionality of inherited periodization schemes. Instead, her point
is to indicate their effective functionality within a presumably obsolete
regime of power and value and thereby to make the case for alterna-
tive time lines in a restructured...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2000
...
Fascist regime. Around 1900 or later the artistic groups of Munich,
Berlin, Saint Petersburg, Chicago, and Bloomsbury tended to side with
the Left. Yes, there were exceptions in France, Italy, England, and Ger-
in that volume. See, for illustration, Terry Eagleton...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 486–491.
Published: 01 December 1968
... and followed with
a clear conscience the changes of regime between 1649 and 1688” (p. 4.)
To follow the changes of regime between 1649 and 1688 is one thing. It
is true that many men did so, including, as Wallace notes, Clarendon,
Hobbes, Shaftesbury, and other notable figures...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 473–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and the Politics of Queer History . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Makdisi Saree . 2013 . Making England Western . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Mayer Arno . 1981 . The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War . New York : Pantheon . Moi...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 238–240.
Published: 01 June 2024
... the glocal —a portmanteau of global and local —functions of race making and the specific ends to which the racializing regimes in early modern England, France, and Spain delegated them. She contends that “pushing beyond the limits of Anglophone archives to study the mechanisms through which early modern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 115–134.
Published: 01 June 1979
...), explore the significance of the histor-
ical sequence of the group as a treatment of a republican regime transforming itself into
an empire. None of the three critics dwells upon formal and substantive differences be-
tween the Roman plays and other Shakespearean tragedy. But Platt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2015
...-
viously uncertain state power began to back resolutely in the first years of
the next century. Secular and church authorities now joined reformers
in prosecuting the regime of discipline and shame more rigorously and
consistently, which proved decisive, for popular inertia no longer sty-
mied cultural...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 289–307.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Review ) (Miller 2001 ), where it stimulated an unprecedented discussion of the future of literary studies. Miller ( 2015 : 57) opens by quoting Jacques Derrida’s Post Card : “An entire epoch of so-called literature, if not all of it, cannot survive a certain technological regime of telecommunications...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 381–385.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Milton’s successors in the field of blank verse description gradually amplify the inadequacy of regular seasonal change—the main driver of the “solar . . . energy regime” (65)—to contain the impact of atmospheric disturbances on traditional forms of organization, both literary and socioeconomic...
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