Modern Language Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Language Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
An Appreciation of Marshall Brown8
Close, but No Cigar3
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form1
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism1
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18481
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics1
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–17301
The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays1
The Queerness of Character-Details1
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England1
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16091
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist1
The Difference an Editor Makes1
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics1
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England1
Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice0
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons0
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail0
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century0
Everybody’s Autotheory0
Whose Resistance Theory?0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers0
The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke0
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton0
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print0
Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life0
Words about Words0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater0
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice0
Queer Allusion: Wilde, Housman, Cullen0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure0
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana0
Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time0
Aesthetic Historicism Now0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction0
Proust, Typical Novelist: Literary Context as Type0
Reading Christian Experience0
To Detail a Dollhouse0
The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature0
The Quotations We Value0
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Introduction: Criticism Now0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests0
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism0
There’s Something about Murray: Victorian Literary Societies and Alfred Forman’s Translation of Richard Wagner’sDer Ring des Nibelungen0
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach0
Minding Concepts0
The Autonomy of Art and the Legitimization of Biofiction: An Aesthetic Turning Point in Twentieth-Century Literature0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century0
Paranoia, Diversion, and Semblance in William Cowper0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War0
Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators0
Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London0
The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography0
Editor’s Note0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief0
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism0
The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–19500
The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media0
King Learand the Irony of Capacity0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships0
Deep Time: A Literary History0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–17420
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn0
Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’sCapitaland the Global City0
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?0
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal0
The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary0
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork0
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies0
Pascal without Apology0
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata0
Marshall Brown, Editor Extraordinaire0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race0
Hamlet, Horatio, and Love0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato0
The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust0
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”0
Working Critics0
MLQand Marshall Brown among Their Peers0
Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist0
Keeping Faith with Literature0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony0
“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures0
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust0
Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, andThe Wire0
Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism0
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age0
Scorning the Gaze0
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 19600
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
Austen, Gaskell, and the Politics of Domestic Fiction0
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt0
Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century0
“Thy Words Do Finde Me Out”: Aaron Kunin’s Love Three0
The Life after Texts, the Life within Them0
Containing the Unnamable0
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England0
The Medium Is Not the Method0
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement0
What Was Tragedy during the Haitian Revolution?0
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America0
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War0
Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’sPylonin Fascist Italy0
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today0
The Satisfactions of Satire: Neoliberalism, Populism, and the Dilemmas of Political Writing0
MLQ Special Issues since 19900
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions0
The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History0
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference0
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 18900
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–18500
Beckett and Buddhism0
The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel0
Justifying Sex in Arcadia0
The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction0
Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures0
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory0
Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser0
Literary History Writ Large; or, The Multilingual MLQ0
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France0
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany0
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature0
When Novels Were Books0
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics0
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