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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Resistance to Song: A Modernist View of Early Modern Lyric6
An Appreciation of Marshall Brown2
Close, but No Cigar2
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics1
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism1
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–17301
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist1
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18481
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England1
The Queerness of Character-Details1
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form1
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16091
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England1
The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays1
The Difference an Editor Makes1
Words about Words0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn0
Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’sPylonin Fascist Italy0
Scorning the Gaze0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
MLQ Special Issues since 19900
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture0
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–17420
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature0
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies0
Proust, Typical Novelist: Literary Context as Type0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It0
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics0
The Quotations We Value0
Beckett and Buddhism0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance0
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain0
Histories of Fiction0
To Detail a Dollhouse0
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life0
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
MLQand Marshall Brown among Their Peers0
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal0
The Lost Books of Jane Austen0
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference0
Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London0
Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, andThe Wire0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief0
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction0
Medieval Scottish Historians and the Contest for Britain0
The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense0
Reading Christian Experience0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships0
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt0
“Thy Words Do Finde Me Out”: Aaron Kunin’s Love Three0
Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators0
Everybody’s Autotheory0
Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’sCapitaland the Global City0
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England0
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction0
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study0
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism0
Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions0
Minding Concepts0
Aesthetic Historicism Now0
“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures0
The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction0
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 18900
Keeping Faith with Literature0
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History0
Literary History Writ Large; or, The Multilingual MLQ0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry0
Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War0
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today0
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?0
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival0
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies0
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–18500
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form0
Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism0
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography0
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century0
Working Critics0
Austen, Gaskell, and the Politics of Domestic Fiction0
When Novels Were Books0
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America0
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand0
Deep Time: A Literary History0
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature0
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
What Was Tragedy during the Haitian Revolution?0
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice0
Whose Resistance Theory?0
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers0
Lectures on DostoevskyFar Country: Scenes from American Culture0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure0
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print0
Pascal without Apology0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change0
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata0
Is a Grapefruit Better than a Grape? A Manifesto for Journal Publication0
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men0
Containing the Unnamable0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies0
Queer Allusion: Wilde, Housman, Cullen0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage0
There’s Something about Murray: Victorian Literary Societies and Alfred Forman’s Translation of Richard Wagner’sDer Ring des Nibelungen0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time0
Justifying Sex in Arcadia0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie0
The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel0
The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust0
Introduction: Criticism Now0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism0
Marshall Brown, Editor Extraordinaire0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France0
Vale atque Ave0
World Literature as a Speculative Literary Totality: Veselovsky, Auerbach, Said, and the Critical-Humanist Tradition0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry0
The Medium Is Not the Method0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century0
Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail0
The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z0
The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–19500
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 19600
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War0
The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style0
The Autonomy of Art and the Legitimization of Biofiction: An Aesthetic Turning Point in Twentieth-Century Literature0
Editor’s Note0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement0
The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature0
The Life after Texts, the Life within Them0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day0
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism0
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton0
The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary0
King Learand the Irony of Capacity0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato0
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater0
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