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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Close, but No Cigar9
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–17303
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist2
The Queerness of Character-Details1
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18481
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics1
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16091
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form1
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism1
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England1
Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time1
The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays1
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics1
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England1
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 18901
The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France0
When Novels Were Books0
Justifying Sex in Arcadia0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism0
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form0
Editor’s Note0
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal0
To Detail a Dollhouse0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany0
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust0
Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature0
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist0
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction0
Paranoia, Diversion, and Semblance in William Cowper0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction0
The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It0
The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel0
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail0
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies0
The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media0
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England0
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies0
Words about Words0
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure0
Avant-Garde Post-: Radical Poetics After the Soviet UnionThe Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–20220
Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’sPylonin Fascist Italy0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change0
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction0
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America0
Hamlet, Horatio, and Love0
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes0
Austen, Gaskell, and the Politics of Domestic Fiction0
Beckett and Buddhism0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance0
Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser0
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics0
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?0
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory0
Aesthetic Historicism Now0
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 19600
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today0
The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century0
Reading Christian Experience0
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry0
Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities0
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography0
The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–19500
“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day0
Proust, Typical Novelist: Literary Context as Type0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief0
The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke0
Everybody’s Autotheory0
Radical Bildung, Revolutionary Pedagogy, and Left Weltliteratur (Goethe, Nizan, Ding, Godard)0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature0
Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’sCapitaland the Global City0
What Was Tragedy during the Haitian Revolution?0
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print0
The Quotations We Value0
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
Containing the Unnamable0
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata0
The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life0
Working Critics0
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry0
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–18500
Scorning the Gaze0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War0
Response to the Review Forum on Criticism and Truth0
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”0
Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage0
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life0
Deep Time: A Literary History0
The Satisfactions of Satire: Neoliberalism, Populism, and the Dilemmas of Political Writing0
Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment0
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
“Thy Words Do Finde Me Out”: Aaron Kunin’s Love Three0
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators0
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age0
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference0
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism0
Minding Concepts0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century0
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War0
Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System0
The Kinky RenaissanceGlorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes0
Whose Resistance Theory?0
Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature0
The Medium Is Not the Method0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–17420
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton0
King Learand the Irony of Capacity0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice0
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
Queer Allusion: Wilde, Housman, Cullen0
An Eastern Account of Goethe’s World Literature0
The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense0
Pascal without Apology0
Lost Causes: Auden’s “New Year Letter” and the Politics of Tone0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony0
Introduction: Criticism Now0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature0
Keeping Faith with Literature0
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