Modern Language Quarterly

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Marshall Brown, Editor Extraordinaire4
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form2
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism2
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers1
An Appreciation of Marshall Brown1
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction1
Close, but No Cigar1
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship1
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes1
The Difference an Editor Makes1
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation1
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–17301
The Queerness of Character-Details1
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies1
Resistance to Song: A Modernist View of Early Modern Lyric1
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics0
Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, andThe Wire0
The Quotations We Value0
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16090
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study0
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 18900
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory0
The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z0
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics0
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
Spenser’s Youth0
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style0
The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust0
Lectures on DostoevskyFar Country: Scenes from American Culture0
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust0
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age0
Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’sCapitaland the Global City0
Beckett and Buddhism0
Medieval Scottish Historians and the Contest for Britain0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War0
The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel0
Literary History Writ Large; or, The Multilingual MLQ0
Minding Concepts0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
World Literature as a Speculative Literary Totality: Veselovsky, Auerbach, Said, and the Critical-Humanist Tradition0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
Histories of Fiction0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America0
A History of Ambiguity0
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach0
Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment0
Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests0
Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt0
Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’sPylonin Fascist Italy0
King Learand the Irony of Capacity0
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata0
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England0
Is a Grapefruit Better than a Grape? A Manifesto for Journal Publication0
There’s Something about Murray: Victorian Literary Societies and Alfred Forman’s Translation of Richard Wagner’sDer Ring des Nibelungen0
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry0
Everybody’s Autotheory0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony0
Cowley’s Dream of a Shadow: Imitation against Experience0
The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary0
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail0
Editor’s Note0
Deep Time: A Literary History0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement0
The Medium Is Not the Method0
Pascal without Apology0
The Lost Books of Jane Austen0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life0
Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism0
Keeping Faith with Literature0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–17420
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War0
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival0
Reading Christian Experience0
Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators0
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life0
Proust, Typical Novelist: Literary Context as Type0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain0
Scorning the Gaze0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century0
The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature0
What Was Tragedy during the Haitian Revolution?0
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference0
The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–19500
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature0
MLQ Special Issues since 19900
Justifying Sex in Arcadia0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race0
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”0
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System0
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail0
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance0
To Detail a Dollhouse0
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
Queer Allusion: Wilde, Housman, Cullen0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism0
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics0
Keywords for Today: A Twenty-First-Century Vocabulary; The Keywords Project0
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture0
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18480
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater0
Aesthetic Historicism Now0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography0
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn0
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal0
Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time0
The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense0
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist0
Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century0
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton0
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism0
Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London0
Containing the Unnamable0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief0
The Autonomy of Art and the Legitimization of Biofiction: An Aesthetic Turning Point in Twentieth-Century Literature0
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism0
Vale atque Ave0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century0
The Life after Texts, the Life within Them0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism0
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History0
Introduction: Criticism Now0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France0
Whose Resistance Theory?0
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day0
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies0
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England0
“Thy Words Do Finde Me Out”: Aaron Kunin’s Love Three0
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships0
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?0
Reinventing Modernism: Randall Jarrell’s Unwritten Essay on T. S. Eliot0
Austen, Gaskell, and the Politics of Domestic Fiction0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie0
MLQand Marshall Brown among Their Peers0
George Herbert’s “The Flower” and the Problem of Praise0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 19600
Working Critics0
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction0
Words about Words0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–18500
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
When Novels Were Books0
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
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