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Project MUSE®: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly - Latest Articles https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly. daily 1 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 60 (1999) - vol. 65 (2004) Latest Articles: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly TWO Project MUSE® MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 1527-1943 0026-7929 Latest articles in MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly. Feed provided by Project MUSE® Shakespeare, Women, and French Romanticism https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174237 Mémoires de Hector Berlioz: Comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1830–1865, vol. 1 (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1870), 97–98; The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz, ed. and trans. David Cairns (New York: Knopf, 2002), 70. Mémoires de Hector Berlioz: Comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1830–1865 vol. 1 Paris Calmann-Lévy 1870 97 98 The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz ed. and trans. Cairns David New York Knopf 2002 70 A succinct presentation of the highlights of nineteenth-century appreciation of "Shakespeare ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Shakespeare, Women, and French Romanticism 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Shakespeare, Women, and French Romanticism 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 72625 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174238 The religion of early modern England has recently become a focus of critical attention in literary scholarship. Students of the secular Renaissance stage, in particular, have begun to rethink long-held assumptions about the relations between church and theater, sacred rituals and dramatic performances, and preachers and players in Tudor and Stuart England. Jeffrey Knapp aligns Shakespeare's Tribe with this revisionist scholarship. However, he then makes a bolder and, I think, more controversial claim for the stage than previous scholars have made when he suggests that players and playwrights may have viewed their profession "as a kind of ministry" (9). Entertaining "the possibility that Renaissance plays may have ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 11614 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174240 Susan Manning is best known as the author of The Puritan-Provincial Vision (1990), a comparative study of Scottish and American literature in the nineteenth century. Her new book similarly addresses thematic connections between the Scottish and American Enlightenments, though its thesis reaches much further, arguing in general terms that the organic, hierarchical structures of English language and culture are challenged by a rhetoric of accumulation and parataxis characteristic of both Scottish and American idioms. Whereas the centripetal authority of English literature lays down traditional patterns of grammatical authority, argues Manning, the centrifugal style of Scottish and American writing is constituted ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 10311 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Elizabeth Spencer, the White Civil Rights Novel, and the Postsouthern https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174241 Allen Tate, "The New Provincialism," in Essays of Four Decades (Wilmington, DE: ISI, 1999), 546. Tate Allen The New Provincialism in Essays of Four Decades Wilmington, DE ISI 1999 546 Allen Tate, "The Profession of Letters in the South," in Essays of Four Decades, 533. Tate Allen The Profession of Letters in the South in Essays of Four Decades 533 For the most fully developed version of this argument see Walter Sullivan, A Requiem for the Renascence: The State of Fiction in the Modern South (Athens: University of Georgia Press ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Elizabeth Spencer, the White Civil Rights Novel, and the Postsouthern 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Elizabeth Spencer, the White Civil Rights Novel, and the Postsouthern 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 43403 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174243 Joan Kelly-Gadol, "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, ed. Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 139–64; Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (London: Gay Men’s, 1982). Kelly-Gadol Joan Did Women Have a Renaissance? in Becoming Visible: Women in European History ed. Bridenthal Renate and Koonz Claudia Boston Houghton Mifflin 1977 139 164 Bray Alan Homosexuality in Renaissance England London Gay ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 7208 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 The Difficulties of Modernism (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174244 After more than thirty years of continuing Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and postmodernist demystification of modernism and its critical companion, New Criticism, Leonard Diepeveen's book The Difficulties of Modernism returns to the earliest and most persistent attack voiced against modernist art: its difficulty. In comparison with the ideologically motivated, often radical polemics against the supposedly elitist, self-serving, and hegemonic attitudes of modernist artists and their New Critical apologists, Diepeveen's critique of modernism seems mild. On the surface, he merely objects to the excesses of modernist difficulty and to the reductiveness of considering complexity and obscurity the primary, if not the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall The Difficulties of Modernism (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US The Difficulties of Modernism (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 12875 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174245 Marjorie Perloff is one of the few critics who is essential to our understanding of contemporary American poetry. Without her we could not trace its roots in twentieth-century modernism so clearly or distinguish the innovative from the imitative poets. She describes Twenty-First-Century Modernism as a "manifesto," and many of her early books, such as The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981) and The Futurist Moment (1986), have the same tone. In these works she argues that the poetry of iconic representation has been exhausted and is being replaced by a poetry that features a free play of signifiers (with its resulting indeterminacy). In Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1991), the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 12286 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Orientalism in French Classical Drama (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174246 French classical theater puts on stage a claustrophobic world from which there is no exit. Confined to one location, one day, one plot, the dramatic action does not easily admit of a world beyond, as Roland Barthes pointed out.1 Turned in on itself, this theater implicitly asks us to read its plays in an insular fashion. Fortunately, Michèle Longino does not heed the call. In her pioneering study Orientalism in French Classical Drama, she boldly pushes against the constraints that theatrical conventions have imposed on our readings of the world they delineate. She shows how the confines of "the world" should be expanded to take in what lies beyond: the other. The most important other, in Longino's view, is ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Orientalism in French Classical Drama (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Orientalism in French Classical Drama (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 8915 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174247 The kind of repetition in the first lines of the two poems is common enough that coincidence is more likely than allusion; for examples see R. G. M. Nisbet and Margaret Hubbard, A Commentary on Horace: Odes, Book I (Oxford: Clarendon, 1970), 204; and Virgil, Aeneid, 7.656–57. Since Horace’s ode is not symposiastic, it is hard to see why Milton would allude to it.The kind of repetition in the first lines of the two poems is common enough that coincidence is more likely than allusion; for examples see Nisbet R. G. M. and Hubbard Margaret A Commentary on Horace: Odes, Book I Oxford Clarendon 1970 204 and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 6111 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (review) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174248 Simon During's Modern Enchantments recounts the history of "secular magic" from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States, with a focus on Great Britain. "From about 1700," he argues, "magic slowly became disconnected from supernature" (14). The result was a "self-consciously illusory magic" that developed venues, rituals, traditions, institutions, and publication outlets that distinguished it from such superficially related social practices as organized religion, occultism, and spiritualism (27). Indissociable from the rise of "show business as a creative force" in the modern era, secular magic became popular as leisure time and surplus capital reached sufficient ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (review) 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (review) 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 13615 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20 Metallusion: The Used, the Renewed, and the Novel https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249 Geoffrey H. Hartman, "The Voice of the Shuttle: Language from the Point of View of Literature," in Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958–1970 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970), 337–55. Hartman Geoffrey H. The Voice of the Shuttle: Language from the Point of View of Literature in Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958–1970 New Haven, CT Yale University Press 1970 337 355 Edwin Stein, Wordsworth’s Art of Allusion (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988). Stein Edwin Wordsworth’s Art of Allusion University Park ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174249">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/129/image/coversmall Metallusion: The Used, the Renewed, and the Novel 2004-10-20 text/html en-US Metallusion: The Used, the Renewed, and the Novel 2004-10-20 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 3770 2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-20