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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 327–330.
Published: 01 June 1942
...” as a Gloss Upon “Paradise Lost.” By MAURICEKELLEY. Princeton University Press, 1941. Pp. xiv + 269. $5.00. Since its translation and publication in 1825, Milton’s De Doc- trina Christiana has been regarded by some as the “prose counter- part” of Paradise Lost; by others, in spite...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 266–267.
Published: 01 June 1940
...Horace G. Rahskopf The Effect of Stress Upon Quantity in Dissyllables . By Norman E. Eliason and Roland C. Davis Bloomington: Indiana University Publications, Science Series, No. 8, 1939. Pp. 56. $1.00 Copyright 1940 by University of Washington Press 1940 266...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 June 1968
...Robert J. Ellrich B. Ellis Madeline. Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. xiii + 199 pp. $6.00; 48s. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS Rousseau’s Venetian Story: An Essay upon Art and Truth in “Les Confes- sions.” By MADELEINEB...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 364–366.
Published: 01 September 1951
... upon Earth” and “Characters of Vertues and Vices.” Edited with an Introduction and Notes by RUDOLFKIRK. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1948. Pp. xiii + 214. $5.00. This handsomely turned out edition of two characteristic pieces of Hall’s should be thought of as one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 301–304.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Lewis C. Seifert Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale . By Elizabeth Wanning Harries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. xiv + 216 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Lewis C. Seifert is associate professor of French studies at Brown...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 76–77.
Published: 01 March 1954
..., however, he does not articulate them. Although Spenser’s best work can be validly defended against those who insist upon compression and dramatic tension, his inferior efforts do exhibit a diffuseness and lack of coijrdination which should be brought into the open. Here the critical problem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Margaret Bruzelius © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.1-02 Bruzelius 2/9/01 2:05 PM Page 19 “The King of England . . . Loved to Look upon a man”: Melancholy and Masculinity in Scott’s Talisman Margaret Bruzelius...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 March 1946
.... FRANKH. RISTINE Hamilton College The Secret Diary of IVilliam Byrd of Westover, 1709-1 712. Edited by LOUISB. WRIGHTand MARIONTINLING. Richmond, Virginia : The Dietz Press, 1941. Pp. xxv + 622. $5.00. An Essay Upon the Government of the English Plantations on the Continent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 333–339.
Published: 01 September 1945
...Edwin H. Zeydel Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 EKKEHARD’S INFLUENCE UPON HROTSVITHA A STUDY IN LITERARY INTEGRITY By EDWINH. ZEYDEL Recently, while re-reading Hrotsvitha’s works, I was forcibly struck by the impressive similarity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 321–348.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and as philosophies of social consensus and psychologies of empathetic affect recollected it sentimentally and benevolently. Post-Miltonically, Satan has earned sympathy or pity: upon Sin’s attaching our world with a great chain of necessitarian and material causality. References Aetius . 1987 . In Doxographi...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 31–57.
Published: 01 March 2025
... fabrication and mental image-breaking. This essay is concerned with Petty’s theorization of surplus or “supernumerary” population and with the enduring motif of a “useless pyramid upon Salisbury Plain” that was its superfluous product. The double status of Petty’s supernumerary labor, at once evacuated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 424–428.
Published: 01 December 1948
...), the resemblance to the invocations and obsecrations is most marked.l Each of the addresses of the first invocations is directly followed by the same plea, with each response repeating the preceding address and plea. 0 God the Father of heaven : have mercy upon us miserable sinners. 0 God...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 1943
... in the eighteenth century, but for its subsequent manifesta- tions. This critical movement started seriously with Professor Lan- son’s thesis upon Nivelle de la Chausse‘e et la Come‘die larrnoyante, and continued throughout the present twentieth century, culminating in Professor Trahard’s Les Ma2tres de la...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 243–253.
Published: 01 September 1962
..., if the Fragment-Swift’s subtitle for the work-has made little impression on modern critics, it had quite the reverse effect in the early eighteenth century. In his Observations upon The Tale of a Tub (1705), William Wotton made a remark that not only illustrates the earlier reaction, but also...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 110–111.
Published: 01 March 1951
... in Italy, a book dominated by the twin themes that this period gave a new primacy to the individual personality and that it marked the beginning of the modem world. Scholars more recent than Burckhardt, without the tendency of their predecessors to look upon the medieval church as a con...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 239–263.
Published: 01 September 1978
... and the converse I have had with him of sin- gular desert2 but there is little sense of intimacy, although perhaps the formal and public nature of the letter accounts for that. In the fol- See Don Cameron Allen, ‘‘ ‘Upon Appleton House,’ ” Image and Meaning: Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 277–285.
Published: 01 September 1948
... it its final form in Jewish rationalistic philosophy.1 It may be added that Joseph Albo, commenting upon Maimonides in the early fifteenth century, simplifies the elaborate system which had developed through the years.a Of Milton’s contemporaries John Smith made the most extensive study...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 475–477.
Published: 01 September 1965
...”; but it is less certain that the histories are moral “only in the sense that all thinking about life, or all application of ideas to life, is moral” (p. 29). Emphasis upon the moral and political ideas may have been over- done in the past twenty years, but surely a balanced account of the plays...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 115–134.
Published: 01 June 1979
... of departure and final return. Frequent allusions to Latin antiquity throughout the canon further reinforce the irnpression that the subject of Rome exerts a continuous pull upon his imagination. Yet critics have largely underestimated the generic similarities linking the three plays to which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 123–143.
Published: 01 June 1984
...: Feminism and Paradise Lost,” MiltotiS, 14 (1980), 3-24. JOHN R. KNOTT, JR. 125 teenth-century Puritan. Crosman, in Reading “Paradise Lost,” agrees with much of Fish’s interpretation and with his emphasis upon the reader’s experience, but rejects...