Modern Philology

Papers
(The TQCC of Modern Philology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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New Light on the “Lunacy” of Sir George Buc2
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Possible Worlds: Jorge Luis Borges’s (Pseudo-)Translations of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka. Rebecca Maria Dewald. London: Institute of Modern Languages Research (University of London Press), 1
“Piers Plowman” and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages. Arvind Thomas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. ix +267.1
:The Pace of Fiction: Narrative Movement and the Novel1
:Anglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, PostSaxon Futures1
:Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard1
Antiquarian Media Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century1
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:The Communion of the Book: Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading1
:Walter Pater’s European Imagination1
Transposed Appetites: Mary of Jerusalem’s Cannibalism in Post-Reformation Narratives1
Gaps in Transmission: Reading Lacan’s Télévision1
:Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things1
:Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal1
Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary. Feisal G. Mohamed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+220.1
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age. David Damrosch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x+386.1
What Difference Does Paris Make in The Ambassadors?1
Guillory’s Agon: Et in Academia Ego1
Introduction: Thinking Poems, Poems Thinking0
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics. Jessie Hock. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288.0
:Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Imagining Christ0
Popular Antiquarianism, New Media, and the Book: The Cultural Transmission of the Past at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century0
:Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature0
:The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal0
:The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of Talk on the London Stage0
:Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization0
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The Elegiac Origin of Vittoria Colonna’s Exemplarity: Echoes of Heroides 13 in the Pistola and beyond0
Of Spices and Spies: Paradise Lost, Os Lusíadas, and Richard Fanshawe’s Lusiad (1655)0
Clipping Easter’s Wing: Lorine Niedecker and the Metaphysical Lyric0
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Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork. Whitney Trettien. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 324.0
Experiencing Locally, Thinking Globally: Smallpox Vaccination as a Framework for Understanding the Global Early Modern0
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John Donne’s Dark Teachings0
:Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere0
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading. Dionne Brand. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2020. Pp. vii+52.0
The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Jane Kingsley-Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vi+286.0
:Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics0
:The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day0
The Confounding Gloss: Reading the Lowne in Pericles and Edward II0
What Cato Did Cannot Be Wrong: The Splendid Vices of Addison’s Cato0
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:Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones0
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:Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective0
Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design. Tekla Mecsnóber. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Pp. ix+286.0
Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare. Laura Kolb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. x+223.0
“And Still I Live”: Languishing in the French Renaissance0
Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons. Daniel Heller-Roazen. New York: Zone Books, 2021. Pp. 317.0
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:Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures0
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Eclecticism and Empire, in Translation0
:Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860–19100
:Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England0
The “Vernacular” Babel: TheLinguistic Survey of Indiaand Colonial Philology0
Paradise Circumcised: How Milton Became Secular0
:Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism0
Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library. Andrew M. Stauffer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288.0
Encoded Confessions: D. H. Lawrence’s Secretive Fruits0
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation. Susan Oliver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+229.0
:Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature0
:Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
King Learand the Irony of Blindness0
Spanish American Modernismo and English Decadence: Beardsley, Pater, and Wells in the Revista Moderna de México (1903–1911)0
:Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind0
:Neither the Time nor the Place: The New Nineteenth-Century American Studies0
Michael Field: Decadent Moderns. Edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. v+289.0
“The Face of Antiquity”: Script, Manuscript, and Facsimile in Early Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian Culture0
Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and the Limits of Lyric0
The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America. Abram Foley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 224.0
Ripping Up Ancestries: Indigeneity and Genealogy in Book 2 ofThe Faerie Queene0
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The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs. Andrew Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii+248.0
Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+283.0
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. ix+145.0
:Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities0
Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds. Andrew Gaedtke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. vii+246.0
Have a Good Time: An Essay on the Sestina0
The New Science and the Virtuoso Reader in Thomas Creech’s Lucretius0
:The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Aesthetics of Disgust0
The Life of Words: Etymology and Modern Poetry. By David-Antoine Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+390.0
Butchers and Graziers: Meat, Trade, and Shifting Hierarchies in Persuasion and Emma0
Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life. Lynn Staley. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. viii+218.0
Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. Edited by Jaime Marroquín Arredondo and Ralph Bauer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. vi+387.0
:Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600–18000
Signos vitales: Procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea. Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2020. Pp. 364.0
Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England. Jordan Kirk. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. 187.0
:Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World0
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution. Ian Duncan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii+290.0
The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England. Rebecca M. Rush. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. x+284.0
:Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book0
States of Emergency: Hunger in Shakespeare0
:Why Modern Manuscripts Matter0
De Man’s Kant: From Literary Modernity to Material Event0
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“Painful Exactness”: The Publications of the Society of Antiquaries of London during the Directorship of Richard Gough (1771–1797)0
:The “Romance of the Rose” and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature0
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:The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain0
(Dis)connected History and the Multiple Narratives of Global Early Modernity0
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:The Value of Poetry0
:Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
:Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge0
“This Sad Time”: The Augustinian Temporality ofKing Lear0
:Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
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Gold and Gloom in Ravenna: On a Line in Ezra Pound’s Cantos0
Aspirational Luxury, Jane Austen, and Piano Rentals0
:Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation0
:Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition0
Goodison’s Wordsworth0
:The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons0
:Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction0
:Heroic Awe: The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic0
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Translation, Reproduction, and Disfigurement: The Queer-Crip Ethic of Florio’s Essays0
:Crusoe’s Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800–19180
:Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature0
Perrault’s Wager: Betting on Bluebeard and the Verse Epimythium0
:Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert0
“Of Whom Hast Thu This Cunnyng?”: The Language of “Cunnyng” in The Book of Margery Kempe0
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William Blake’s “Fourfold Vision”: A Practical Antiquary’s Visionary Contemplations among the “Couches of the Dead”0
:Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
“Who Feeds Revenge Hath Found an Endless Muse”: Nashe, Satire, and the Poetics of Vengeance0
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Spenser and Renaissance Patristics: The Eight Deadly Sins inThe Faerie Queene0
On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive. Tison Pugh. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. ix+241.0
Varieties of Nothing: Understatement and Anticlimax in Chekhov, Hemingway, and Carver0
:“Genial” Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century0
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“Untranslated and Untranslatable”? A Sonic Study of Pope’s Odyssey0
:Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature0
:Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America0
:Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry: The Poetics of Feeling0
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxi+654.0
Introduction—The Jaguar’s Beer: Critical Approaches to Multiplicity in the Early Modern World0
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020. Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xi+396.0
English Translations of French Shakespeare Criticism and the Consecration of Universal Genius0
:Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation0
Dryden and Shakespeare in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger: Contrasting Emblems of Nature, Empire, and Communion0
Janel Mueller, 1938–20220
Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western Anti-monarchism, the Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft. Chris Fitter. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. x+364.0
:Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16090
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime. Jenny C. Mann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+271.0
:Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders0
:Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings from Arrest to Imprisonment0
The Persistence of Morpheus: Redcrosse’s Carelessness0
“I Tried to Answer from the Birds, in Ancient Augury Fashion”: Aristophanes’s Birds and the Work of Elizabeth Bishop0
Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance. Edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. vi+244.0
:A History of Mexican Poetry0
:Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780–18500
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Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts. Edited by Sharon M. Rowley. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xix+360.0
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Shakespeare’s Hints0
Old English Ecotheology: The Exeter Book. Courtney Catherine Barajas. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Pp. 230.0
Inconvenient Globalism: Method Making at the Margins of Art History0
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:Early Modern Drama at the Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals0
Shakespeare’s Several Begetters0
:Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation0
“Sabaoths Sight”: Merism and Its Cosmovisión in Edmund Spenser’s The Mutabilitie Cantos0
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Hamlet’s Choice: Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare’s Revenge Tragedies. Peter Lake. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+215.0
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London. Oskar Cox Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii+280.0
:Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century0
The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Edited by Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Paperback reissue, 2020. Pp. v+944.0
:Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism0
“Come to My House”: The Architecture of Conversion and Christopher Marlowe’sThe Jew of Malta0
Spinning Gold: Nuggets, Narratives, and Raw Materials in the Victorian Gold Rush0
Reading Chaucer in Time: Literary Formation in England and Italy. Kara Gaston. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+202.0
Reading Tudor Folly: Sex and Scatology in John Heywood’s Play of the Wether0
:Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms0
Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects. Crystal B. Lake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. x+261.0
The Lyric Now. James Longenbach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp xi+114.0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry. Jennifer Putzi. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xii+272.0
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650. Eric Weiskott. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xviii+297.0
Bad Faith (and Good) in the “Test of Faith” of Paradiso 240
“Clothed with Poetry”: Lafcadio Hearn’s Decadent Aesthetics of Translation0
:Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English0
Thinking Revolution: The Decolonial Instant in Ernesto Cardenal’s Documentary Poems0
The Novel and the New Ethics. Dorothy J. Hale. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxii+330.0
:The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English0
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords. Patricia Parker. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 424.0
:Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia0
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Introduction: Decadence and Translation0
“Certain Cathartic, Aristotelian Qualities” in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy0
Rochester’s Corporate Conscience0
:Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature0
:Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature0
:Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past0
:The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature. Claudia Stokes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. xi+253.0
What Was Early Modern World Literature?0
:Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism0
Nonconscious Lyric: Ferdinand de Saussure and Poetry’s Computational Origin0
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Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism. Ruben Espinosa. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. viii+183.0
Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature. Martin Eisner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 259.0
:The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film0
:Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England0
:Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times0
The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Andrea Charise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. xlv+194.0
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Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619; Bibliography in the Longue Durée. Zachary Lesser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. x+198.0
Ethnicity, Gender, and the Making of a Transnational Decadent Canon: Georges Hérelle’s Translations of Matilde Serao and Grazia Deledda0
Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain. Michelle Levy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+300.0
Romance and Recovery in Orlando furioso: The Night Raid, the Homicidal Women, and the Pattern of Romance0
“Magnifying God Manyfolde”: James Ryman’s Practice of Repetition0
Translation in Decadence: George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man0
:Thoreau’s God0
Crooked Instruments: Obscene Scribal Creativity in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 4160
Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition. Antoine Traisnel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Pp. 296.0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style. Simon Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+238.0
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:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Mining the Colonial Archive: The Global Microhistory of a Peruvian Coya0
:Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies0
The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton. Thomas Fulton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. x+370
:Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind0
:Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus. Charlotte Sussman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 266.0
:The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton0
:British Romanticism and Peace0
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730. Wolfram Schmidgen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 260.0
How Does a Poem Think?0
:Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature0
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. Susan Stewart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+378.0
Thomas Johnson’s and Mary Wellington’s Single-Text Editions of Hamlet and the Copyright Act of 17100
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848. Clare Pettitt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+348.0
The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. viii+388.0
Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11. Peter C. Herman. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. viii+211.0
Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture. Lynn Festa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 350.0
Futures of Enlightenment Poetry. Dustin Stewart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 300.0
Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714. Edited by Elizabeth Sauer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xv+402.0
Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy. Edited by Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+324.0
:Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race0
:Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data0
:Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature0
:Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Vulcan’s Gold: Poetic Metallurgy in the English Renaissance0
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