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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
An Appreciation of Marshall Brown7
Close, but No Cigar2
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist1
The Difference an Editor Makes1
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics1
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–17301
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form1
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18481
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England1
The Queerness of Character-Details1
The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays1
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16091
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism1
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt0
Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment0
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture0
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust0
“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures0
To Detail a Dollhouse0
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 18900
Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice0
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies0
Proust, Typical Novelist: Literary Context as Type0
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”0
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail0
Scorning the Gaze0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day0
Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism0
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies0
Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, andThe Wire0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’sCapitaland the Global City0
Deep Time: A Literary History0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement0
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form0
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China0
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age0
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies0
Working Critics0
Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century0
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
Pascal without Apology0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail0
Whose Resistance Theory?0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America0
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism0
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print0
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
Justifying Sex in Arcadia0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism0
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
Everybody’s Autotheory0
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton0
Queer Allusion: Wilde, Housman, Cullen0
The Autonomy of Art and the Legitimization of Biofiction: An Aesthetic Turning Point in Twentieth-Century Literature0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature0
There’s Something about Murray: Victorian Literary Societies and Alfred Forman’s Translation of Richard Wagner’sDer Ring des Nibelungen0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–18500
Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time0
Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London0
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century0
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions0
The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense0
Introduction: Criticism Now0
The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life0
When Novels Were Books0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships0
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice0
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media0
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure0
“Thy Words Do Finde Me Out”: Aaron Kunin’s Love Three0
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
Marshall Brown, Editor Extraordinaire0
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction0
MLQ Special Issues since 19900
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers0
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature0
Reading Christian Experience0
Containing the Unnamable0
Aesthetic Historicism Now0
King Learand the Irony of Capacity0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–17420
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study0
Keeping Faith with Literature0
Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’sPylonin Fascist Italy0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System0
The Quotations We Value0
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain0
Minding Concepts0
The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel0
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today0
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics0
Austen, Gaskell, and the Politics of Domestic Fiction0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography0
Beckett and Buddhism0
The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–19500
MLQand Marshall Brown among Their Peers0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests0
The Medium Is Not the Method0
The Life after Texts, the Life within Them0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 19600
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics0
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life0
The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary0
Editor’s Note0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry0
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn0
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism0
The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato0
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes0
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men0
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
What Was Tragedy during the Haitian Revolution?0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage0
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction0
Words about Words0
The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust0
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata0
Literary History Writ Large; or, The Multilingual MLQ0
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