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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 277–314.
Published: 01 September 2002
... century. The Scots Songs of Allan Ramsay:
“Lyrick” Transformation, Popular Culture, and
the Boundaries of the Scottish Enlightenment
Steve Newman
hat was the Scottish Enlightenment? In a pair of influential texts
WAlasdair MacIntyre presents it as the tragic demise of a Scottish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 621–624.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Paul Giles Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing . By Susan Manning. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. viii + 339 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Paul Giles is reader in American literature and director of the Rothermere American Institute...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 609–612.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Penny Fielding Penny Fielding is senior lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Her most recent book is Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain, 1760–1830 (2008). Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820 . By Shields Juliet...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 478–488.
Published: 01 December 1967
...
A CASE FOR THE SCOTTISH SOLOMON‘
By PETERALEXANDER
Measure for Measure has been classified and reclassified since 1875,
when Edward Dowden put it with All‘s Well That Ends Well and
Troilus and Cressida in a group he described as the “dark comedies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 3–11.
Published: 01 March 1961
... Jackson. “The Situation of the Scottish Gaelic Language,” Lochlann , I (1958), 229–34. THE CULTURAL STATUS OF SCOTTISH GAELIC
A HUMANISTIC INTERPRETATION
By CHARLESW. DUNN~
For at least four centuries the Gaelic spoken in the Highlands and
Western Islands...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 March 1962
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speare, both as a poet and as a man of the theater.
RAYMONDJENKINS
Catawba College
The Instructed Vision: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origin of
American Fiction. By TERENCEMARTIN. Bloomington : Indiana University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 369–370.
Published: 01 December 1956
...Van Akin Burd Gill Viljoen Helen, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956 Pp. 284. $3.75. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Van Akin Biwd 369
Ruskin’s Scottish Heritage: A Prelude. By HELENGILL VILJOEN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 79–80.
Published: 01 March 1956
... poet has better
evoked joy and courage? The final note in Whitman is affirmation.
HAROLDBLODCETT
Union College
Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey. Edited by JAMES KINSLEY.London : Cassell
and Company, Ltd., 1955. Pp. ix + 330...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 361–362.
Published: 01 September 1946
... attention in more detail in the future.
HARRISFLETCHER
University of Illinois
Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century.
By GLADYSBRYSON. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1945.
Pp. ix + 286. $3.00.
For some...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 June 2021
... traces imperialist geography in English historiography via the descriptio Britanniae (description of Britain), a trope found across the Middle Ages, and the fourteenth-century Gough Map, the first sheet-map of Britain. Scottish historians rebut the claims of their Anglocentric counterparts...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to an anterior temporal space. This essay offers a more differentiated history, examining Scottish and northern song collectors who differed from these formulations and provided distinct understandings of “the people” and of class. David Herd, for instance, used Scottish Enlightenment theories of sense...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 175–199.
Published: 01 June 2012
... in relation to his reading of Dante’s defense of the vernacular, a question that Pound works through by way of the counterintuitive process of translation, with the goal of defending American usage against the linguistic regulatory norms of England. Through recourse to a lexicon derived from the Scottish poet...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 443–471.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Samuel Baker It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 September 2011
...: the transformation of writing, that is, from rhetoric or belles lettres to art. However, while much has been written and said about the French, German, and Scottish Enlightenments, little is known about the Italian one. Engaged in a reevaluation of this lesser-known, peripheral Enlightenment, this essay discusses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 403–413.
Published: 01 December 2009
...” appeared in the September 1994 issue of MLQ . Barnaby, Paul. “Another Tale of Old Mortality: The Translations of Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret in the French Reception of Scott,” in Pittock, Reception , 31 -44. Brown, Ian, ed. The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature , 3 vols...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 23–35.
Published: 01 March 1940
..., No. 42 and especially pp. 125-26. Com-
pare English and Scottish Popular Ballads, I, 113.
Archer Taylor 25
The German parallels to “The Twa Sisters” (Child, No. 10)
are found only on the eastern border of Germany and are adapta-
tions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 195–207.
Published: 01 September 1960
...-single in the
richness of its creation and, in one sense, individual in time and place.
One way to illuminate the poem is to view its ballad quality, its
Scottish-northern-primitive coloring, as it came out of the literary
climate of Keats’s time, knowing all the while that illumination...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 517–539.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Susan Manning University of Washington 2007 Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Her most recent works are Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2014
... professor of English at Brigham Young University. Author of The Ruins of Experience: Scotland’s “Romantick” Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (2007), he is writing a book manuscript that explores literary and geometric experiments with form in the long Scottish Enlightenment. © 2014...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 548–550.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to the English in an Anglocentric British Atlantic world” (15) does seem at times conceptually reductive. There is a suspicion that this “Anglocentric” world is used as a straw man to adduce a discursive context for promoting Welsh, Scottish, and Irish interests, something highlighted further by the misleading...
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