Articles

Nicholas Paige

The Storyteller and the Book: Scenes of Narrative Production in the Early French Novel
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 141-170 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-001 [PDF]  

Elisa Tamarkin

Revolution and Nostalgia: American Elegies for British Empire
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 171-211 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-002 [PDF]  

Matthew Potolsky

Decadence, Nationalism, and the Logic of Canon Formation
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 213-244 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-003 [PDF]  

Jian Xu

Body, Earth, and Migration: The Poetics of Suffering in Zhang Wei's September Fable
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 245-264 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-004 [PDF]  

Reviews

William Waters

Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition. By John T. Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature, 2003. 348 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 265-270 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-005 [PDF]  

Annabel Patterson

Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674. By Victoria Kahn. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xii + 370 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 271-274 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-006 [PDF]  

Deidre Lynch

Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. By G. Gabrielle Starr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 298 pp.
(2006).
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 274-278 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-007 [PDF]  

Patrick Caddeau

Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. By Susan L. Burns. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 282 pp.
is forthcoming.
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 278-280 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-008 [PDF]  

Rita Felski

Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. By Jennifer Fleissner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 338 pp.
(2003), and she is completing a Black-well's Manifesto on the uses of literature.
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 280-282 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-009 [PDF]  

James Tweedie

Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea. By Steven Dillon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 271 pp.
and is working on a comparative study of cinematic new waves from the late 1950s to the 1990s.
Modern Language Quarterly 67(2): 283-286 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2005-010 [PDF]  

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