OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Close, but No Cigar	4
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730	2
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist	2
The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays	1
The Queerness of Character-Details	1
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics	1
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions	1
Lost Causes: Auden’s “New Year Letter” and the Politics of Tone	1
Radical Bildung, Revolutionary Pedagogy, and Left Weltliteratur (Goethe, Nizan, Ding, Godard)	1
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form	1
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism	1
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–1609	1
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork	1
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata	1
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–1500	1
Whose Resistance Theory?	1
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 1890	1
Women’s Epistolary Rhetorics in Late Sixteenth-Century Venetian–Ottoman Diplomacy	1
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England	1
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print	1
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry	1
King Learand the Irony of Capacity	1
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture	1
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”	0
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War	0

An Eastern Account of Goethe’s World Literature	0
Introduction: Criticism Now	0
The Unpicturesque; or, Wen Yiduo in Chicago	0
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory	0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style	0
The Quotations We Value	0
Hamlet, Horatio, and Love	0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis	0
Folly and Feeling: Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample Declaration (1569) and Epistolary Emotion	0
Paranoia, Diversion, and Semblance in William Cowper	0
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana	0
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater	0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–1742	0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn	0
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton	0
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today	0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race	0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life	0
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study	0
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton	0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism	0
The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke	0
Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity	0
Fellow-Traveling: Reading Su Manshu and Byron Across Lands and Seas	0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany	0
The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction	0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day	0
Transnational Dante: Inventing Argentine Cultural Identity	0
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction	0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand	0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance	0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference	0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography	0
The Kinky RenaissanceGlorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature	0
Keeping Faith with Literature	0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas	0
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction	0
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men	0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France	0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief	0
Deep Time: A Literary History	0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes	0
Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures	0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement	0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 1960	0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	0
Beckett and Buddhism	0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature	0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels	0
The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living	0

Letter Writing and the Female Self-in-Love in Early Modern Italy: Reshaping Gender in Isabella Andreini’s Lettere	0
Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics After the Soviet UnionThe Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–2022	0
Minding Concepts	0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction	0
Pascal without Apology	0
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal	0
The Medium Is Not the Method	0
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory	0
The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media	0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism	0
Novel Artifacts	0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies	0
Containing the Unnamable	0
Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser	0
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature	0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It	0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship	0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America	0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature	0
“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures	0
“A Priest of the Eternal Imagination”: Modern Spiritual Authority in Joyce	0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China	0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage	0
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?	0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–1850	0
Reading Christian Experience	0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century	0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail	0
From Carmenta to Justina: A Sketch of Female Readers in Early Modern European Prose	0
To Detail a Dollhouse	0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons	0
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism	0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail	0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist	0
Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature	0
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media	0
The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History	0
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science	0
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England	0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests	0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism	0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie	0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System	0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust	0
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies	0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet	0
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England	0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater	0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change	0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt	0
The Satisfactions of Satire: Neoliberalism, Populism, and the Dilemmas of Political Writing	0
Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London	0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure	0
Words about Words	0
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton	0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain	0
Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature	0
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes	0
Bonding Through Paper: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and Sor Mariana de San José’s Lettered Community	0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry	0
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation	0
The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z	0
Justifying Sex in Arcadia	0
Introduction to “A Web of Sentiments: Gender and Letter Writing in the Early Modern World”	0
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics	0
Gender in an Early Modern Persian Epistolary Rant	0
Aesthetic Historicism Now	0
Working Critics	0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony	0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War	0
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach	0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships	0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato	0
Response to Review Forum on Criticism and Truth	0
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies	0
Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities	0
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel	0
Scorning the Gaze	0