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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Close, but No Cigar3
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist2
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–17302
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form2
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture1
Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’sPylonin Fascist Italy1
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 18901
The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays1
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism1
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16091
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry1
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions1
Lost Causes: Auden’s “New Year Letter” and the Politics of Tone1
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics1
Women’s Epistolary Rhetorics in Late Sixteenth-Century Venetian–Ottoman Diplomacy1
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England1
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork1
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata1
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print1
The Queerness of Character-Details1
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics1
Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time1
Gender in an Early Modern Persian Epistolary Rant0
Paranoia, Diversion, and Semblance in William Cowper0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–17420
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana0
Editor’s Note0
The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War0
The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel0
Justifying Sex in Arcadia0
Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature0
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
Introduction: Criticism Now0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests0
To Detail a Dollhouse0
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
Working Critics0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure0
“Thy Words Do Finde Me Out”: Aaron Kunin’s Love Three0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage0
Introduction to “A Web of Sentiments: Gender and Letter Writing in the Early Modern World”0
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction0
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography0
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics0
From Carmenta to Justina: A Sketch of Female Readers in Early Modern European Prose0
The Satisfactions of Satire: Neoliberalism, Populism, and the Dilemmas of Political Writing0
The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany0
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism0
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater0
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism0
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes0
King Learand the Irony of Capacity0
The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France0
Fellow-Traveling: Reading Su Manshu and Byron Across Lands and Seas0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn0
Words about Words0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Pascal without Apology0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons0
Beckett and Buddhism0
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail0
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century0
Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures0
Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity0
Keeping Faith with Literature0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–18500
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?0
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study0
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media0
Transnational Dante: Inventing Argentine Cultural Identity0
“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life0
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal0
“A Priest of the Eternal Imagination”: Modern Spiritual Authority in Joyce0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies0
Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser0
Novel Artifacts0
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance0
Minding Concepts0
Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice0
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War0
Whose Resistance Theory?0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry0
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction0
Scorning the Gaze0
The Quotations We Value0
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change0
Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style0
Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics After the Soviet UnionThe Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–20220
An Eastern Account of Goethe’s World Literature0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships0
Hamlet, Horatio, and Love0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt0
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel0
The Unpicturesque; or, Wen Yiduo in Chicago0
Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature0
Response to Review Forum on Criticism and Truth0
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference0
Letter Writing and the Female Self-in-Love in Early Modern Italy: Reshaping Gender in Isabella Andreini’s Lettere0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 19600
Aesthetic Historicism Now0
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction0
The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media0
Deep Time: A Literary History0
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony0
The Kinky RenaissanceGlorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature0
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement0
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach0
Reading Christian Experience0
Bonding Through Paper: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and Sor Mariana de San José’s Lettered Community0
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton0
The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense0
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China0
Folly and Feeling: Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample Declaration (1569) and Epistolary Emotion0
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
Radical Bildung, Revolutionary Pedagogy, and Left Weltliteratur (Goethe, Nizan, Ding, Godard)0
The Medium Is Not the Method0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail0
Containing the Unnamable0
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