Modern Language Quarterly

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Marshall Brown, Editor Extraordinaire4
The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism2
The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form2
An Appreciation of Marshall Brown1
The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays1
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship1
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction1
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science1
Talking about Religion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies1
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation1
The Queerness of Character-Details1
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton1
Resistance to Song: A Modernist View of Early Modern Lyric1
Close, but No Cigar1
Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’sPylonin Fascist Italy0
Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction0
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics0
Everybody’s Autotheory0
How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal0
Did God WriteMoby-Dick?0
Obsessed with Translation: Bovaristic Reading of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China0
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany0
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork0
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton0
Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”0
Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645–17420
The Difference an Editor Makes0
In Praise of Idling: Johnson, Austen, and Literary Leisure0
The Autonomy of Art and the Legitimization of Biofiction: An Aesthetic Turning Point in Twentieth-Century Literature0
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–18480
Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach0
“Thy Words Do Finde Me Out”: Aaron Kunin’s Love Three0
The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day0
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture0
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form0
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century0
The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust0
Histories of Fiction0
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics0
Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer’s Antibiography0
The Words on the Screen: I. A. Richards as Media Theorist0
Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment0
Toward a Realism of the World-System: John Lanchester’sCapitaland the Global City0
Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time0
Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America0
Containing the Unnamable0
The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–19500
Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, andThe Wire0
On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist0
There’s Something about Murray: Victorian Literary Societies and Alfred Forman’s Translation of Richard Wagner’sDer Ring des Nibelungen0
Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests0
Pascal without Apology0
Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War0
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race0
To Detail a Dollhouse0
The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail0
Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism0
“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie0
“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century0
Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print0
Biblical and Theological Literacy and Victorian Studies Today0
Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief0
The Medium Is Not the Method0
It’s the End of the World and We Know It0
Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study0
When Novels Were Books0
Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature0
The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction0
The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction0
Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London0
Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change0
New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory0
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions0
The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England0
George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 18900
Lectures on DostoevskyFar Country: Scenes from American Culture0
The Novel and the Problem of New Life0
Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater0
Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century0
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History0
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England0
Beckett and Buddhism0
The Life after Texts, the Life within Them0
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age0
Schools of Fiction: Literature and the Making of the American Educational System0
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement0
Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture: Bad Beatitudes0
Shameful Specters: Remembering Spanish Slavery in Àngels Aymar’s La Indiana0
The Quotations We Value0
Minding Concepts0
Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–18500
King Learand the Irony of Capacity0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style0
Whose Resistance Theory?0
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice0
Austen, Gaskell, and the Politics of Domestic Fiction0
Wallace Stevens, Music Technology, and the Resonance of Poetry0
The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense0
Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War0
Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand0
Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival0
Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France0
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16090
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics: Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men0
Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism0
Bad Blood: Staging Race between Early Modern England and Spain0
Is a Grapefruit Better than a Grape? A Manifesto for Journal Publication0
The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary0
Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail0
Literary History Writ Large; or, The Multilingual MLQ0
Words about Words0
World Literature as a Speculative Literary Totality: Veselovsky, Auerbach, Said, and the Critical-Humanist Tradition0
Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers0
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism0
MLQ Special Issues since 19900
MLQand Marshall Brown among Their Peers0
From “Gestural Language” to “Language Gesture”: André Jolles, Aby Warburg, and the Morphology of Mass Media0
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War0
Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics0
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England0
In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn0
Queer Allusion: Wilde, Housman, Cullen0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons0
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England0
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage0
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry0
Joseph Brodsky’s Borrowed Chinese Voice0
The Lost Books of Jane Austen0
Aesthetic Historicism Now0
Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism0
Deep Time: A Literary History0
Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust0
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata0
Reading Christian Experience0
The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel0
Editor’s Note0
What Was Tragedy during the Haitian Revolution?0
Keeping Faith with Literature0
The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life0
The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z0
“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures0
Scorning the Gaze0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony0
How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies0
The Decay of Singing: Remembering the Castrato0
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature0
The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies0
The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt0
Justifying Sex in Arcadia0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships0
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
Vale atque Ave0
Introduction: Criticism Now0
Medieval Scottish Historians and the Contest for Britain0
Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory0
Proust, Typical Novelist: Literary Context as Type0
The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance0
Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators0
Working Critics0
The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature0
Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism0
The Mark of the Detail: Universalism, Type, Difference0
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas0
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–17300
Uncertainty and Understanding in the Early Modern English Theater0
Old “New Media” and Literary Studies before 19600
The Revolutionary Romanticisms of Mo Yan and Yan Lianke0
A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes0
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