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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 75–105.
Published: 01 March 2011
...: Novel, Gender, and Transnational Form Christopher L. Hill journalist in Emile Zola’s novel Nana describes its unrestrained A heroine as a “golden fly” who spreads social rot, “corrupting and deranging Paris between her snowy thighs.”1 The same might be said of Nana. In the decades...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Marguerite Waller Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age . By Carole Levin and John Watkins. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 217 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Marguerite Waller is professor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 120–124.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Rebecca L. Walkowitz A Transnational Poetics . By Jahan Ramazani. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xvii + 221 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Rebecca L. Walkowitz, associate professor of English at Rutgers University, is author of Cosmopolitan Style...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Stephanie Newell The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of “The Pilgrim's Progress.” By Isabel Hofmeyr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xii + 314 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Stephanie Newell lectures in postcolonial literature at the University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 125–127.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Eleni Coundouriotis The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience . By Goodlad Lauren M. E. . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 353 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Resisting recent inclinations toward...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 379–382.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Katharine Ann Jensen [email protected] Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century . By Pamela L. Cheek , Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2019 . x + 270 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Jonathan E. Abel [email protected] Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form . By Christopher Laing Hill . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2020 . xx + 258 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Figures...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to color world literature by crafting a transnational literary canon grounded in the idea of colored solidarity and explicitly opposed to racism and imperialism. His commitment to colored cosmopolitanism led him, however, to a stale ventriloquism that was itself a form of colonization. Claiming dominion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 49–73.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Stephen Knadler Although revisionary work in African American literary history has stretched the borders of the Black Atlantic to include a hemispheric America or a Black Pacific, these transnational paradigms ignore the connection of the Black Atlantic's migrations, cultural exchanges, and cross...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
... transnational position, the first conceiving of the Protestant Ascendancy as neofeudal landlords who transform Irish labor into capitalist wealth, the second characterizing the Anglo-Irish as a cosmopolitan class of professional managers. By regarding these socioeconomic roles as affective dispositions between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2016
... intellectual engagement with the work of Henry Hallam. Barrett Browning’s remarks in the margins of Hallam’s books and in a historiographical essay of her own reveal a poet thinking about her craft in the context of a transnational history of poetry. Barrett Browning’s idiosyncratic prosody becomes another...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 197–215.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Azade Seyhan This essay investigates what differentiates the idea and practice of world literature(s) from those of national literatures, exile literature, and transnational or cosmopolitan literature. It identifies provincialism, Europolitanism, and the separation of literature and history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the picturesque’s antihistorical drive to eradicate local difference. Renewed critical attention to early attempts to establish an antipicturesque aesthetic may uncover important precursors to present-day postcolonial and transnational theory, precursors that can enrich the ongoing global turn in literary history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Winter Jade Werner; Mimi Winick Abstract Recent developments in the field of Victorian studies include its increasingly “global” or “transnational” scope as well as its “religious turn,” with a proliferation of scholarship on religion from Christian sects to new religious movements...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 238–240.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of premodern critical race studies no longer have to make the case that race was a social and material construct in the early modern period, they are free to ask and answer different, more compelling questions. In her expansive study, Scripts of Blackness , Noémie Ndiaye queries the transnational circulation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
... recent publications include The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel (2006) and Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung (2005; 2nd ed. 2009). Reviews Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age. By Carole Levin and John Watkins. Ithaca, NY...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2011
... at Northwestern University. His most recent book is a study of Victorian agnosticism, The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (2011). Reviews Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age. By Carole Levin and John Watkins...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 116–120.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium (forthcoming). She is working on a book about postrace postapartheid mixed-race literature and performance in the United States and South Africa. Reviews Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., davis. She is author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (2002) and Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010). Reviews Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age. By Carole Levin and John...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 354–358.
Published: 01 September 2019
... local, national, and transnational (14). In bracingly clear prose Suhr-Sytsma contributes to the sociological scholarly works in postcolonial literature, especially those informed by Pierre Bourdieu and Pascal Casanova. Critics have examined the relation between publishing institutions in the global...