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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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New Light on the “Lunacy” of Sir George Buc4
Antiquarian Media Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century3
:Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things2
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: Auerbach’s Renaissance: Rebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante1
:The Communion of the Book: Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading1
: Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight1
:Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal1
:Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material Worlds1
Guillory’s Agon: Et in Academia Ego1
What Difference Does Paris Make in The Ambassadors?1
: Making the Bible French: The “Bible historiale” and the Medieval Lay Reader1
:The Pace of Fiction: Narrative Movement and the Novel1
Gaps in Transmission: Reading Lacan’s Télévision1
:Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard1
:Anglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, PostSaxon Futures1
:The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton0
:Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism0
:Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature0
Butchers and Graziers: Meat, Trade, and Shifting Hierarchies in Persuasion and Emma0
:The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650–18070
:Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature0
:Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature0
: Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England0
:Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate Crisis0
:Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime. Jenny C. Mann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+271.0
A Voice in the Cow Stall: Aesthetic Creatures of the Renaissance0
“Untranslated and Untranslatable”? A Sonic Study of Pope’s Odyssey0
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The Confounding Gloss: Reading the Lowne in Pericles and Edward II0
Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and the Limits of Lyric0
:Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies0
“Like Similies”: Aemilia Lanyer’s Poetics of Intimacy0
:Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature0
:Neither the Time nor the Place: The New Nineteenth-Century American Studies0
The Persistence of Morpheus: Redcrosse’s Carelessness0
:Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–16090
The Descriptions in The Siege of Jerusalem : Source, Theme, and Relationship to The Destruction of Troy0
“I Tried to Answer from the Birds, in Ancient Augury Fashion”: Aristophanes’s Birds and the Work of Elizabeth Bishop0
Shaaban Robert’s Swahili Rubáiyát and Its Reckonings0
:Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet0
:“Genial” Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century0
Dianoia in Coriolanus0
Just as We Read Anywhere: Type Texts, Intertexts, and the Earliest English Lives of Malchus0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation0
From Word to Word: Marianne Moore’s Poetics of Cross-Reference0
The Elegiac Origin of Vittoria Colonna’s Exemplarity: Echoes of Heroides 13 in the Pistola and beyond0
Perrault’s Wager: Betting on Bluebeard and the Verse Epimythium0
:Early Modern Drama at the Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals0
:Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature0
:Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature0
:Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English0
:The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of Talk on the London Stage0
:Walter Pater’s European Imagination0
:The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons0
:The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives0
Ugly Words, Ugly Deeds, Ugly Faces: Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling and the Dynamics of Disgust0
John Darnielle and the Two Medieval Geoffreys0
“Coins of a Former Age”: Thomas Tyrwhitt’s “Essay on the Language and Versification of Chaucer” (1775) and English Historical Metrics0
: About Suffering: On Louise Glück0
: The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories by Virginia Woolf0
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:Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book0
John Donne’s Dark Teachings0
:Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation0
:Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England0
:Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America0
:Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past0
:The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain0
“Clothed with Poetry”: Lafcadio Hearn’s Decadent Aesthetics of Translation0
:Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature0
Thinking, Full Stop0
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Nonconscious Lyric: Ferdinand de Saussure and Poetry’s Computational Origin0
Spanish American Modernismo and English Decadence: Beardsley, Pater, and Wells in the Revista Moderna de México (1903–1911)0
:The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day0
:Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms0
Universal Language and Universal Prose: Eugene Jolas, H. G. Wells, and the Languages of Modernist Utopianism0
:Thoreau’s God0
Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere. Stefano Evangelista. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. ix+290.0
Old English Ecotheology: The Exeter Book. Courtney Catherine Barajas. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Pp. 230.0
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Politics of Punctuation, Poetics of Ambiguity: Rethinking Punctuation Through Modern Chinese Poetry0
:A History of Mexican Poetry0
Have a Good Time: An Essay on the Sestina0
Apostrophe as Play in Seventeenth-Century Lyric0
:Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature0
:Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States0
Paradise Circumcised: How Milton Became Secular0
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Agon: Poetry’s Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality(1920s–1960s)0
“Why Brand They Us?”: The Metaphors and Metamorphoses of Stigma in King Lear0
Children of Allegory: Interpretation and Colonial Rule in Early British India0
Reconstructing Early Beowulf: Evidence from Andreas for the Ninth-Century Form of the Text0
: Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture0
:Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders0
:Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England0
Like Torn, Unanswered Letters: Similes in Elizabeth Bishop0
Thomas Johnson’s and Mary Wellington’s Single-Text Editions of Hamlet and the Copyright Act of 17100
:Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670–17920
:Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones0
Introduction: Decadence and Translation0
English Translations of French Shakespeare Criticism and the Consecration of Universal Genius0
:Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind0
:Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–19220
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style. Simon Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+238.0
:Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World0
:Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England0
:The “Romance of the Rose” and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature0
Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design. Tekla Mecsnóber. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Pp. ix+286.0
:Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science0
Varieties of Nothing: Understatement and Anticlimax in Chekhov, Hemingway, and Carver0
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:Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature0
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:Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century0
“This Sad Time”: The Augustinian Temporality ofKing Lear0
:Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature0
:Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism0
:Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature0
:Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600–18000
: Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature0
:The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science0
“Cantelena Reprobanda”: A Sixteenth-Century Remembrance of a Secret Love0
:Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind0
:Heroic Awe: The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic0
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:Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation0
:The Masculinities of John Milton: Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works0
Vulcan’s Gold: Poetic Metallurgy in the English Renaissance0
:World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture0
:Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere0
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:British Romanticism and Peace0
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:Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism0
The Force of Language in Billy Budd : An Inside-Outside Narrative0
:Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–15000
:Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective0
Rochester’s Corporate Conscience0
Birds as Communities in The Wanderer and The Seafarer0
Bad Faith (and Good) in the “Test of Faith” of Paradiso 240
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
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork. Whitney Trettien. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 324.0
:The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media0
“Certain Cathartic, Aristotelian Qualities” in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy0
:Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge0
The New Science and the Virtuoso Reader in Thomas Creech’s Lucretius0
:Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy0
:Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World0
“Come to My House”: The Architecture of Conversion and Christopher Marlowe’sThe Jew of Malta0
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:Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Imagining Christ0
: Fictions of God: English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator0
:The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment0
:The Art and Thought of the “Beowulf” Poet0
:The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Aesthetics of Disgust0
De Man’s Kant: From Literary Modernity to Material Event0
Ethnicity, Gender, and the Making of a Transnational Decadent Canon: Georges Hérelle’s Translations of Matilde Serao and Grazia Deledda0
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Introduction: Thinking Poems, Poems Thinking0
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:Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age0
“The Face of Antiquity”: Script, Manuscript, and Facsimile in Early Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian Culture0
: The Work of Reform: Literature and Political Ecology from Langland to Spenser0
:Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures0
:Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings from Arrest to Imprisonment0
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 302.0
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“Sabaoths Sight”: Merism and Its Cosmovisión in Edmund Spenser’s The Mutabilitie Cantos0
:Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert0
:Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times0
Overhearing and Underseeing: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Accident of the Poem0
:Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry: The Poetics of Feeling0
Tearing Down Telos: Usury and Sodomy in Jeremy Bentham0
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. ix+145.0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry. Jennifer Putzi. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xii+272.0
:Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics0
:The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels0
:Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data0
Janel Mueller, 1938–20220
:The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States0
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020. Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xi+396.0
:The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English0
Spinning Gold: Nuggets, Narratives, and Raw Materials in the Victorian Gold Rush0
Popular Antiquarianism, New Media, and the Book: The Cultural Transmission of the Past at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century0
:Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation0
Romance and Recovery in Orlando furioso: The Night Raid, the Homicidal Women, and the Pattern of Romance0
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:Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780–18500
Encoded Confessions: D. H. Lawrence’s Secretive Fruits0
:Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction0
Clipping Easter’s Wing: Lorine Niedecker and the Metaphysical Lyric0
King Learand the Irony of Blindness0
:On Close Reading0
:The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought0
“And Still I Live”: Languishing in the French Renaissance0
:Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race0
:Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860–19100
The Night Departure: Tracing Medieval Epic from Ariosto to Milton0
Response Essay: Skylark Philosophy0
:The Value of Poetry0
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:Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities0
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: The Aeneid0
Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver0
What Cato Did Cannot Be Wrong: The Splendid Vices of Addison’s Cato0
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:Why Modern Manuscripts Matter0
Goodison’s Wordsworth0
:Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia0
: Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Future of Literary History0
Translation in Decadence: George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man0
Concordia Discors at World’s End: Pope, Voltaire, Wordsworth0
Thinking Revolution: The Decolonial Instant in Ernesto Cardenal’s Documentary Poems0
:Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition0
Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature. Claudia Stokes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. xi+253.0
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:The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film0
Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons. Daniel Heller-Roazen. New York: Zone Books, 2021. Pp. 317.0
Translation, Reproduction, and Disfigurement: The Queer-Crip Ethic of Florio’s Essays0
:Crusoe’s Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800–19180
“Painful Exactness”: The Publications of the Society of Antiquaries of London during the Directorship of Richard Gough (1771–1797)0
“I Could Tell You”: On Speaking, Not Speaking, and Hamlet ’s Metalanguage of Interiority0
The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics. Jessie Hock. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288.0
:Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization0
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Memory Forged in Genocide: What Nietzsche Meant for Borges0
William Blake’s “Fourfold Vision”: A Practical Antiquary’s Visionary Contemplations among the “Couches of the Dead”0
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How Does a Poem Think?0
:Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation: Poetry, Public Worship, and Popular Divinity0
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:The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal0
Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature. Martin Eisner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 259.0
“Magnifying God Manyfolde”: James Ryman’s Practice of Repetition0
:The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera0
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The Bee and the Butterfly: Translation Practices in Modern Greek Decadence0
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: What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse0
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