Modern Language Quarterly articles from December 2004

Modern Language Quarterly archives from December 2004

Shakespeare, women, and French Romanticism.
December 1, 2004... Shakespeare, coming upon me unawares, struck me like a thunderbolt. The lightning flash of that sublime discovery opened before me at a stroke the whole heaven of art, illuminating it to its remotest depths. I recognized the meaning of...

War in the air.(Poem)
December 1, 2004... No soldiers in the scenery, No thoughts of people now dead, As they were fifty years ago, Young and living in a live air, Young and walking in the sunshine, Bending in blue dresses to touch something, ...

Elizabeth Spencer, the white civil rights novel, and the postsouthern.
December 1, 2004... During the 1940s, around the time that Allen Tate looked back at the recent achievements of the southern renascence and gloomily opined that such literary riches would not come again, a new kind of southern novel--what I will call the white...

Metallusion: the used, the renewed, and the novel.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Allusion to the Poets. By Christopher Ricks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 345 pp. After reviewing more than one book by Christopher Ricks, years back, I was readily pegged as a devotee. Leaving aside his increasingly publicized...

Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic. By Simon During. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. x + 336 pp. Simon During's Modern Enchantments recounts the history of "secular magic" from the late seventeenth to...

Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England. By Jeffrey Knapp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xvi + 277 pp. The religion of early modern England has recently become a focus of critical attention...

The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. By Valerie Traub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 492 pp. The history of early modern studies has been influenced by a number of critical and theoretical streams...

Orientalism in French Classical Drama.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Orientalism in French Classical Drama. By Michele Longino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 274 pp. French classical theater puts on stage a claustrophobic world from which there is no exit. Confined to one location, one...

Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature. By Joshua Scodel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. viii + 367 pp. Long before Aristotle's theory that virtue is a mean between extremes, moderation held an important...

Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing. By Susan Manning. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. viii + 339 pp. Susan Manning is best known as the author of The Puritan-Provincial Vision (1990), a comparative study...

The Difficulties of Modernism.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... The Difficulties of Modernism. By Leonard Diepeveen. New York: Routledge, 2003. xviii + 318 pp. After more than thirty years of continuing Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and postmodernist demystification of modernism and its critical...

Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Twenty-First-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics. By Marjorie Perloff. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. ix + 222 pp. Marjorie Perloff is one of the few critics who is essential to our understanding of contemporary American poetry. Without...