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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 June 1946
...Rowland M. Hill Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 APHRA BEHN’S USE OF SETTING
SETTINGUNKNOWN SETTINGKNOWN TO BEHN
TO BEHN London Rural England Foreign
1683 Adventure of Black Lady...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 219–241.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Ilona Bell Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 “SETTING FOOT INTO DIVINITY”
GEORGE HERBERT AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION
By ILONA BELL
Most critics of The Temple have taken George Herbert’s Angli-
canism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 211–238.
Published: 01 September 1988
...Ian F. A. Bell Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 LANGUAGE, SETTING, AND SELF
IN THE BOSTONIANS
By IAN F. A. BELL
Public, private, and personal worlds collide alarmingly in The
Bostonians, the most vibrant...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 375–377.
Published: 01 September 1970
... the purposes of the writer), Glauser
moves into a set of variations that are organized around the favorite com-
monplaces of the thematists or the tired tricks of the Baroquists. Ornamen-
tation follows on variation; and as one reads along, suddenly one ceases to
believe at all. ‘The poems are so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 269–272.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Gerald L. Bruns Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture . By Russell A. Berman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xxi + 238 pp. University of Washington 2009 Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Emeritus Professor at the University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 293–315.
Published: 01 September 1975
...William Burgan Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 TOKENS OF WINTER
IN DICKENS’S PASTORAL SETTINGS
By WILLIAMBURGAN
In the last year of his life, while he was writing The Mystery of
Edwin Drood...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 227–246.
Published: 01 September 1981
...Martin Elsky Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 POLYPHONIC PSALM SETTINGS AND THE
VOICE OF GEORGE HERBERT’S THE TEMPLE
By MARTINELSKY
Perhaps the most striking current development in Herbert criticism...
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Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 1. Temporal settings of prize-nominated novels, 1960–2013
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 187–205.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Shirley Lau Wong Abstract Literary settings are often celebrated for richly representing the many details of a particular place. The close association between detail and setting stems from the realist presumption that detail constitutes what Roland Barthes calls an “index of . . . atmosphere...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 261–276.
Published: 01 June 2013
... music literature,” it implies that three domains are essential for it: first, creating a literary text; second, setting the text to music; and third, having access to both and enabling the composition to circulate within large networks and groups around the globe. Within this context Schiller’s text...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Figure 2. Temporal settings of best sellers, 1960–2015 ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 373–394.
Published: 01 December 2022
... that in professional and pedagogical settings, secularism is ritualistically reinstantiated in informal exchanges such that scholarly disregard for religion becomes, in Peter Coviello’s words, “a part of our untheorized and offhand real.” Such informally but intensely pedagogical moments bear inextricably scholarly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 443–459.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Peter Coviello Abstract This essay takes up two conceptual formations of great consequence to Herman Melville: “religion” and “literature.” Part of what binds them so tightly for Melville is a set of transformative upheavals in liberal culture that we have lately come to know by a different name...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 407–427.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Christina Lupton This article explores two sets of convergences: one between skeptical and commonsense philosophies in the eighteenth century, and the other between poststructuralist and eighteenth-century philosophies. It argues that all of these forms of reasoning share an interest in the paper...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 341–367.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., by the end of the seventeenth century the possibilities for political freedom depended on a set of global relations that included not only the citizen and the government but also its colonies and the markets they produce. Valerie Forman is associate professor at the Gallatin School of individualized...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 329–349.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of an aesthetics and politics of realism via the seminal text on caste, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), which sets a literary precedent for the representation of untouchability. In it modernist form allows for a particular reading of untouchability; through the abstractions of both Marxism and metaphor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Mark Miller Abstract The inevitable emerges in this issue as a name for the troubled intersection of agency and structural necessity. The most prominent medieval name for that intersection is sin. Far from grounding the medieval subject in a set of theological norms that give it stable coordinates...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., in particular the religious civil wars of the preceding century. Albeit in the discreetly displaced form of a martyr story set in imperial Rome, the play enacts the violent disorders associated with religion itself and so, by extension, the virtues of the new secular order that theater embodies. 10 See...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 123–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ends with the goddess rushing off to Parliament and the powerless poet left behind in a bleak, coastal setting. Later in the century the importance of Britannia faded, but the patterns established in earlier texts continued. Anna Seward’s 1781 Monody on Major Andrè retains some features...
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