Introduction

Andrew Elfenbein

Defining Influence
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 433-436 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-010 [PDF]  

Articles

Paul H. Fry

How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 437-459 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-011 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Asha Varadharajan

The Unsettling Legacy of Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 461-480 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-012 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrew Elfenbein

On the Discrimination of Influences
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 481-507 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-013 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Katherine Elkins

Memory and Material Significance: Composing Modernist Influence
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 509-531 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-014 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ankhi Mukherjee

The Death of the Novel and Two Postcolonial Writers
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 533-556 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-015 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Reviews

Julia Reinhard Lupton

Shylock Is Shakespeare
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 557-559 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-016 [PDF]  

Christopher Matthews

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
By Kirstie Blair. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. vi + 273 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 560-562 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-017 [PDF]  

Martha Banta

Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
(2007).
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 563-567 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-018 [PDF]  

Daniel T. O'Hara

Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature
are forthcoming.
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 567-569 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-019 [PDF]  

Paul Giles

Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 569-572 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-020 [PDF]  

Bruce Robbins

Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture; Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
By Aamir R. Mufti. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiii + 325 pp.; (2007). His current work is on transnational rhetoric.
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 572-577 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-021 [PDF]  

Donald Wesling

The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
(2008).
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 578-582 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-022 [PDF]  

David Simpson

Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
is forthcoming.
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 582-586 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-023 [PDF]  

Herbert Lindenberger

The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text
By Garrett Stewart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 411 pp.
Modern Language Quarterly 69(4): 586-589 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00267929-2008-024 [PDF]  

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