Introduction

Brook Thomas

National Literary Histories: Imagined Communities or Imagined Societies?
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 137-152 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-137 [PDF]  

Articles

Linda Georgianna

Periodization and Politics: The Case of the Missing Twelfth Century in English Literary History
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 153-168 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-153 [PDF]  

Richard Helgerson

Before National Literary History
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 169-179 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-169 [PDF]  

Hinrich C. Seeba

Trostgründe: Cultural Nationalism and Historical Legitimation in Nineteenth-Century German Literary Histories
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 181-197 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-181 [PDF]  

Margit Sichert

Functionalizing Cultural Memory: Foundational British Literary History and the Construction of National Identity
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 199-217 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-199 [PDF]  

Hugh Roberts

The Same People Living in Different Places: Allen Curnow's Anthology and New Zealand Literary History
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 219-237 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-219 [PDF]  

Herbert Grabes

Cultivating a Common Literary Heritage: British Histories of English Literature since World War II
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 239-254 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-239 [PDF]  

Reviews

Julie Candler Hayes

Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe
By David Porter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii + 296 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 255-258 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-255 [PDF]  

Catriona MacLeod

Goethe As Woman: The Undoing of Literature
By Benjamin Bennett. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 274 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 258-260 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-258 [PDF]  

Lauren M. E. Goodlad

A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews
By Irene Tucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiv + 311 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 260-265 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-260 [PDF]  

Robert E. Abrams

Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival
By Clare L. Spark. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001. x + 730 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 266-269 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-266 [PDF]  

Cyrena N. Pondrom

Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934
By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 269-272 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-269 [PDF]  

William Flesch

Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities
By Kevin Jackson. New York: Dunne, 2000. xxii + 310 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 64(2): 272-276 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00267929-64-2-272 [PDF]  

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