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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 302.4
John Trevisa’s Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400. Emily Steiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii+287.2
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Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature. Martin Eisner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 259.2
Four Shakespearean Period Pieces. Margreta de Grazia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 248.1
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation. Susan Oliver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+229.1
“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
Prose, Poetry, and the Frontiers of British Discourse, 1660–18001
Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage. Richard E. Keatley. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pp. x+233.1
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry. Wendy Beth Hyman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+201.1
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Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium. Levi Roach. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xxix+326.1
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Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature. Shane Graham. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Pp. vii+307.1
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
Audiation: Listening to Writing1
:Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism1
:Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England1
Michael Field: Decadent Moderns. Edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. v+289.1
:Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater0
“Untranslated and Untranslatable”? A Sonic Study of Pope’s Odyssey0
Response Essay: Skylark Philosophy0
The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. viii+388.0
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork. Whitney Trettien. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 324.0
:Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
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Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry. Jennifer Putzi. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xii+272.0
Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Tristan Major. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. xiii+289.0
Introduction: Decadence and Translation0
:Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Inconvenient Globalism: Method Making at the Margins of Art History0
:The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton0
Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons. Daniel Heller-Roazen. New York: Zone Books, 2021. Pp. 317.0
Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714. Edited by Elizabeth Sauer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xv+402.0
Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture. Lynn Festa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 350.0
Crooked Instruments: Obscene Scribal Creativity in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 4160
How the Classics Made Shakespeare. Jonathan Bate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xi+361.0
:Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race0
:Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature0
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:Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book0
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords. Patricia Parker. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 424.0
Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life. Lynn Staley. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. viii+218.0
Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design. Tekla Mecsnóber. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Pp. ix+286.0
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon. Megan E. Hartman. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xii+213.0
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Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds. Andrew Gaedtke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. vii+246.0
:The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
Parrots and Paragrams: AI Language Models and Erasure Poetry0
The Painter of Rural Life: Narrative Complexity and Imaginative Sympathy in George Sand and George Eliot0
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution. Ian Duncan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii+290.0
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Reading Tudor Folly: Sex and Scatology in John Heywood’s Play of the Wether0
:The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States0
States of Emergency: Hunger in Shakespeare0
What Cato Did Cannot Be Wrong: The Splendid Vices of Addison’s Cato0
:Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings from Arrest to Imprisonment0
:Crusoe’s Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800–19180
:Neither the Time nor the Place: The New Nineteenth-Century American Studies0
Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library. Andrew M. Stauffer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288.0
:Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature0
“Magnifying God Manyfolde”: James Ryman’s Practice of Repetition0
Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11. Peter C. Herman. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. viii+211.0
Piers Plowman: The A Version. William Langland. Translated by Michael Calabrese. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020. Pp. xlvii+160.0
Bad Faith (and Good) in the “Test of Faith” of Paradiso 240
:Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia0
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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King Learand the Irony of Blindness0
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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking. Cord J. Whitaker. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 247.0
Introduction: Thinking Poems, Poems Thinking0
Paradise Circumcised: How Milton Became Secular0
Ripping Up Ancestries: Indigeneity and Genealogy in Book 2 ofThe Faerie Queene0
:Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities0
:Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England0
Romance and Recovery in Orlando furioso: The Night Raid, the Homicidal Women, and the Pattern of Romance0
:The Art and Thought of the “Beowulf” Poet0
:Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England0
Spenser and Renaissance Patristics: The Eight Deadly Sins inThe Faerie Queene0
:Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation0
The New Science and the Virtuoso Reader in Thomas Creech’s Lucretius0
:Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures0
Naming with Many Names: Reimagining Origins in Marie de France’sLais0
Authorial Creativity in Interdisciplinary Perspective: The Cognitive-Material Generation of Annie Ernaux’s Les années0
“Painful Exactness”: The Publications of the Society of Antiquaries of London during the Directorship of Richard Gough (1771–1797)0
:Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare: Metaphor, Cognition and Eros. Gillian Knoll. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+273. The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desir0
:Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
Popular Antiquarianism, New Media, and the Book: The Cultural Transmission of the Past at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century0
:Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal0
:Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere0
:Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things0
Shakespeare’s Several Begetters0
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
:Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature0
“Who Feeds Revenge Hath Found an Endless Muse”: Nashe, Satire, and the Poetics of Vengeance0
:The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History0
:Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Imagining Christ0
:Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation0
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
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Of Spices and Spies: Paradise Lost, Os Lusíadas, and Richard Fanshawe’s Lusiad (1655)0
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:Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms0
:Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation0
Dante’s True Constellation: Writing the Stars in Aratus, Ovid, and Paradiso 130
The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America. Abram Foley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 224.0
Frankenstein,Paradise Lost, and the Fiction of Translation0
:Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age0
:Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition0
:The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English0
:Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Hamlet’s Choice: Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare’s Revenge Tragedies. Peter Lake. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+215.0
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
Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare. Laura Kolb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. x+223.0
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“Of Whom Hast Thu This Cunnyng?”: The Language of “Cunnyng” in The Book of Margery Kempe0
Nonconscious Lyric: Ferdinand de Saussure and Poetry’s Computational Origin0
:Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–19220
Literary Value and Social Identity in the “Canterbury Tales.” Robert J. Meyer-Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. x+282.0
Old English Ecotheology: The Exeter Book. Courtney Catherine Barajas. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Pp. 230.0
Introduction—The Jaguar’s Beer: Critical Approaches to Multiplicity in the Early Modern World0
The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity. Benjamin Schreier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 228.0
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Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition. Antoine Traisnel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Pp. 296.0
:The Masculinities of John Milton: Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works0
:Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics0
Milton’s Aristotelian Transformations in the Representation of Regenerative Change0
Character as Form. Aaron Kunin, with illustrations by David Scher. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp.vi+242.0
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Robert Frost: Poems in Books, Poems against Books0
Shakespeare’s Hints0
Mapped in Blood: Civil War and the Israelite State in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
Guillory’s Agon: Et in Academia Ego0
Clipping Easter’s Wing: Lorine Niedecker and the Metaphysical Lyric0
From Word to Word: Marianne Moore’s Poetics of Cross-Reference0
“I Tried to Answer from the Birds, in Ancient Augury Fashion”: Aristophanes’s Birds and the Work of Elizabeth Bishop0
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“Why Brand They Us?”: The Metaphors and Metamorphoses of Stigma in King Lear0
:“Genial” Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century0
Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594. Edited by Rory Loughnane and Andrew J. Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. v+324.0
Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects. Crystal B. Lake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. x+261.0
:Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
Gaps in Transmission: Reading Lacan’s Télévision0
A Senegambian King in an Englishman’s Bed: The King of Saloum, Francis Moore, and the Making of Early Modern Sovereignty0
William Blake’s “Fourfold Vision”: A Practical Antiquary’s Visionary Contemplations among the “Couches of the Dead”0
Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy. Edited by Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+324.0
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On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive. Tison Pugh. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. ix+241.0
:Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World0
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
The Life of Words: Etymology and Modern Poetry. By David-Antoine Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+390.0
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
The Confounding Gloss: Reading the Lowne in Pericles and Edward II0
Edward Lear: Sudden and Surprising0
Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus. Charlotte Sussman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 266.0
Shakespeare’s “Monstrous State”: Divination, Typology, and the Book of Nature in Julius Caesar0
Janel Mueller, 1938–20220
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
English Translations of French Shakespeare Criticism and the Consecration of Universal Genius0
:Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America0
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848. Clare Pettitt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+348.0
:Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction0
Aspirational Luxury, Jane Austen, and Piano Rentals0
:Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16090
Thinking Revolution: The Decolonial Instant in Ernesto Cardenal’s Documentary Poems0
Spanish American Modernismo and English Decadence: Beardsley, Pater, and Wells in the Revista Moderna de México (1903–1911)0
:The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons0
:Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
:Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe0
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading. Dionne Brand. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2020. Pp. vii+52.0
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease, and Colonial Modernity. Emily Senior. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+284.0
“Certain Cathartic, Aristotelian Qualities” in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy0
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Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics. Tobias Menely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. vii+269.0
:World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture0
:Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600–18000
:Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860–19100
Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries. Alison A. Chapman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xvi+214.0
Gold and Gloom in Ravenna: On a Line in Ezra Pound’s Cantos0
Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere. Stefano Evangelista. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. ix+290.0
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. Susan Stewart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+378.0
:Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization0
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
The Novel and the New Ethics. Dorothy J. Hale. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxii+330.0
Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England. D. Vance Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. x+299.0
:Early Modern Drama at the Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals0
:Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century0
Varieties of Nothing: Understatement and Anticlimax in Chekhov, Hemingway, and Carver0
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Signos vitales: Procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea. Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2020. Pp. 364.0
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:Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature0
Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500–1500. Edited by Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner, and Elizabeth M. Tyler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+581.0
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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
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics. Jessie Hock. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288.0
:Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective0
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:Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
“Prayer the Churches Banquet”: The Parallel Temporalities of Objects in George Herbert’sTemple0
:Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies0
Reconstructing Early Beowulf: Evidence from Andreas for the Ninth-Century Form of the Text0
Flower Girls and Garbage Women: Misogyny and Cliché in Ronsard and Herrick0
Encoded Confessions: D. H. Lawrence’s Secretive Fruits0
:Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature0
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The Lyric Now. James Longenbach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp xi+114.0
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:Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge0
From Piccolomini to Sandford: Contextualizing Irony in “The Originall of Herawldes”0
Without the Novel: Romance and the History of Prose Fiction. Scott Black. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. ix+208.0
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Shaaban Robert’s Swahili Rubáiyát and Its Reckonings0
:The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day0
:The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film0
“Clothed with Poetry”: Lafcadio Hearn’s Decadent Aesthetics of Translation0
Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and the Limits of Lyric0
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxi+654.0
The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life. Peter Boxall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+411.0
The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature. Tina Skouen. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. Pp. x+234.0
:Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London0
Translation in Decadence: George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man0
Intertextuality and Sociolectal Differentiation in Old Saxon and Old English Verse: A Stylometric Analysis Using N-grams0
:The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Aesthetics of Disgust0
Eclecticism and Empire, in Translation0
Thinking, Full Stop0
:The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain0
:Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times0
“Loves halowed temple”: Erotic Sacramentalism and Reformed Devotion in John Donne’s “To his Mistress going to bed”0
:Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones0
:Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature0
:The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
:Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism0
Reading Chaucer in Time: Literary Formation in England and Italy. Kara Gaston. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+202.0
:Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature0
:Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind0
Translation, Reproduction, and Disfigurement: The Queer-Crip Ethic of Florio’s Essays0
The “Vernacular” Babel: TheLinguistic Survey of Indiaand Colonial Philology0
:The Communion of the Book: Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading0
:Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670–17920
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:Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders0
Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California0
:A History of Mexican Poetry0
Experiencing Locally, Thinking Globally: Smallpox Vaccination as a Framework for Understanding the Global Early Modern0
Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism. Ruben Espinosa. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. viii+183.0
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