OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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New Light on the “Lunacy” of Sir George Buc	2
Possible Worlds: Jorge Luis Borges’s (Pseudo-)Translations of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka. Rebecca Maria Dewald. London: Institute of Modern Languages Research (University of London Press),	2
:Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal	1
Guillory’s Agon: Et in Academia Ego	1
What Difference Does Paris Make in The Ambassadors?	1
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age. David Damrosch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x+386.	1
:Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard	1
:Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things	1
Gaps in Transmission: Reading Lacan’s Télévision	1
:The Pace of Fiction: Narrative Movement and the Novel	1
:Anglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, PostSaxon Futures	1
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Antiquarian Media Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century	1
:The Communion of the Book: Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading	1
:Walter Pater’s European Imagination	1
Transposed Appetites: Mary of Jerusalem’s Cannibalism in Post-Reformation Narratives	1
The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. viii+388.	0
Thinking Revolution: The Decolonial Instant in Ernesto Cardenal’s Documentary Poems	0
Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition. Antoine Traisnel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Pp. 296.	0
:Thoreau’s God	0
:Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature	0
Dante’s New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature. Martin Eisner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 259.	0
Janel Mueller, 1938–2022	0
Bad Faith (and Good) in the “Test of Faith” of Paradiso 24	0

English Translations of French Shakespeare Criticism and the Consecration of Universal Genius	0
Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus. Charlotte Sussman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 266.	0
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Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork. Whitney Trettien. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 324.	0
Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature. Claudia Stokes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. xi+253.	0
What Was Early Modern World Literature?	0
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Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy. Edited by Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+324.	0
:Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders	0
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:Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States	0
:Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America	0
:Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book	0
Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism. Ruben Espinosa. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. viii+183.	0
Defoe@2025	0
Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain. Michelle Levy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+300.	0
Clipping Easter’s Wing: Lorine Niedecker and the Metaphysical Lyric	0
The Lyric Now. James Longenbach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp xi+114.	0
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Dryden and Shakespeare in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger: Contrasting Emblems of Nature, Empire, and Communion	0
:Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600–1800	0
Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619; Bibliography in the Longue Durée. Zachary Lesser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. x+198.	0
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. Susan Stewart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+378.	0
Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style. Simon Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+238.	0
:Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature	0
A Voice in the Cow Stall: Aesthetic Creatures of the Renaissance	0
:The Value of Poetry	0
What Cato Did Cannot Be Wrong: The Splendid Vices of Addison’s Cato	0
:Neither the Time nor the Place: The New Nineteenth-Century American Studies	0
“Painful Exactness”: The Publications of the Society of Antiquaries of London during the Directorship of Richard Gough (1771–1797)	0
:Crusoe’s Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800–1918	0
The Elegiac Origin of Vittoria Colonna’s Exemplarity: Echoes of Heroides 13 in the Pistola and beyond	0
:World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture	0
Spanish American Modernismo and English Decadence: Beardsley, Pater, and Wells in the Revista Moderna de México (1903–1911)	0
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Nonconscious Lyric: Ferdinand de Saussure and Poetry’s Computational Origin	0
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:Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies	0
:Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature	0
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John Donne’s Dark Teachings	0
Shakespeare’s Hints	0
Popular Antiquarianism, New Media, and the Book: The Cultural Transmission of the Past at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	0
:Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism	0
Futures of Enlightenment Poetry. Dustin Stewart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 300.	0
Reading Chaucer in Time: Literary Formation in England and Italy. Kara Gaston. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+202.	0
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime. Jenny C. Mann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+271.	0
Introduction: Decadence and Translation	0
:Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States	0

The Form of Love: Poetry’s Quarrel with Philosophy. James Kuzner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. vi+216.	0
Front Cover	0
Front Matter	0
Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts. Edited by Sharon M. Rowley. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xix+360.	0
:Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780–1850	0
Rewriting Joyce’s Europe: The Politics of Language and Visual Design. Tekla Mecsnóber. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Pp. ix+286.	0
:The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal	0
:Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics	0
Varieties of Nothing: Understatement and Anticlimax in Chekhov, Hemingway, and Carver	0
Experiencing Locally, Thinking Globally: Smallpox Vaccination as a Framework for Understanding the Global Early Modern	0
:Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind	0
“Certain Cathartic, Aristotelian Qualities” in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy	0
Butchers and Graziers: Meat, Trade, and Shifting Hierarchies in Persuasion and Emma	0
Paradise Circumcised: How Milton Became Secular	0
Front Matter	0
:The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day	0
On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive. Tison Pugh. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. ix+241.	0
Of Spices and Spies: Paradise Lost, Os Lusíadas, and Richard Fanshawe’s Lusiad (1655)	0
Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere. Stefano Evangelista. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. ix+290.	0
:The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons	0
Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary. Feisal G. Mohamed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+220.	0
The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Edited by Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Paperback reissue, 2020. Pp. v+944.	0
The New Science and the Virtuoso Reader in Thomas Creech’s Lucretius	0
“Untranslated and Untranslatable”? A Sonic Study of Pope’s Odyssey	0
:Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms	0
:Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature	0
Aspirational Luxury, Jane Austen, and Piano Rentals	0
:The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment	0
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:Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860–1910	0
:Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry: The Poetics of Feeling	0
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
Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and the Limits of Lyric	0
The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America. Abram Foley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 224.	0
:The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States	0
Ripping Up Ancestries: Indigeneity and Genealogy in Book 2 ofThe Faerie Queene	0
Rochester’s Corporate Conscience	0
“And Still I Live”: Languishing in the French Renaissance	0
Vulcan’s Gold: Poetic Metallurgy in the English Renaissance	0
:Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England	0
:The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton	0
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848. Clare Pettitt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xv+348.	0
:On Close Reading	0
Introduction—The Jaguar’s Beer: Critical Approaches to Multiplicity in the Early Modern World	0
How Does a Poem Think?	0
Eclecticism and Empire, in Translation	0
Introduction: Thinking Poems, Poems Thinking	0
:Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature	0
:Early Modern Drama at the Universities: Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals	0
:Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past	0
Mining the Colonial Archive: The Global Microhistory of a Peruvian Coya	0
:Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation	0
Encoded Confessions: D. H. Lawrence’s Secretive Fruits	0
The Life of Words: Etymology and Modern Poetry. By David-Antoine Williams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+390.	0
Spenser and Renaissance Patristics: The Eight Deadly Sins inThe Faerie Queene	0
:Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–1609	0
:Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism	0
Reconstructing Early Beowulf: Evidence from Andreas for the Ninth-Century Form of the Text	0
Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730. Wolfram Schmidgen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 260.	0
:Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction	0
Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western Anti-monarchism, the Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft. Chris Fitter. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. x+364.	0
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“This Sad Time”: The Augustinian Temporality ofKing Lear	0
:Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670–1792	0
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“I Tried to Answer from the Birds, in Ancient Augury Fashion”: Aristophanes’s Birds and the Work of Elizabeth Bishop	0
:The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film	0
:Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge	0
The Novel and the New Ethics. Dorothy J. Hale. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxii+330.	0
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:The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Aesthetics of Disgust	0
:Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition	0
Goodison’s Wordsworth	0
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry. Jennifer Putzi. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xii+272.	0
:Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century	0
:Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings from Arrest to Imprisonment	0
:Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World	0
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:Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature	0
:The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels	0

De Man’s Kant: From Literary Modernity to Material Event	0
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords. Patricia Parker. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 424.	0
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:Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization	0
:The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama: Forms of Talk on the London Stage	0
Thomas Johnson’s and Mary Wellington’s Single-Text Editions of Hamlet and the Copyright Act of 1710	0
William Blake’s “Fourfold Vision”: A Practical Antiquary’s Visionary Contemplations among the “Couches of the Dead”	0
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:Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones	0
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:Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation	0
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:The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain	0
The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England. Rebecca M. Rush. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. x+284.	0
The Confounding Gloss: Reading the Lowne in Pericles and Edward II	0
Gold and Gloom in Ravenna: On a Line in Ezra Pound’s Cantos	0
Translation, Reproduction, and Disfigurement: The Queer-Crip Ethic of Florio’s Essays	0
:Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England	0
:Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–1500	0
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London. Oskar Cox Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii+280.	0
:Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Imagining Christ	0
:Heroic Awe: The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic	0
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:Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind	0
:Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science	0
:Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere	0
Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries. Alison A. Chapman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xvi+214.	0
Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons. Daniel Heller-Roazen. New York: Zone Books, 2021. Pp. 317.	0
:Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature	0
Perrault’s Wager: Betting on Bluebeard and the Verse Epimythium	0
:Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature	0
“The Face of Antiquity”: Script, Manuscript, and Facsimile in Early Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian Culture	0
:Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data	0
:Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities	0
:Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–1922	0
:Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism	0
:Why Modern Manuscripts Matter	0
“Who Feeds Revenge Hath Found an Endless Muse”: Nashe, Satire, and the Poetics of Vengeance	0
Spinning Gold: Nuggets, Narratives, and Raw Materials in the Victorian Gold Rush	0
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Romance and Recovery in Orlando furioso: The Night Raid, the Homicidal Women, and the Pattern of Romance	0
Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life. Lynn Staley. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. viii+218.	0
Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American 19th Century. Elizabeth Freeman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. xii+228.	0
Translation in Decadence: George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man	0
Have a Good Time: An Essay on the Sestina	0
:“Genial” Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century	0
:A History of Mexican Poetry	0
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020. Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xi+396.	0
King Learand the Irony of Blindness	0
:Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World	0
The Persistence of Morpheus: Redcrosse’s Carelessness	0
:Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature	0
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxi+654.	0
Inconvenient Globalism: Method Making at the Margins of Art History	0
(Dis)connected History and the Multiple Narratives of Global Early Modernity	0
:The “Romance of the Rose” and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature	0
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Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England. Jordan Kirk. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. 187.	0
:Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature	0
:The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media	0
:Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective	0
The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity. Benjamin Schreier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 228.	0
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation. Susan Oliver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+229.	0
:British Romanticism and Peace	0
:Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet	0
“Clothed with Poetry”: Lafcadio Hearn’s Decadent Aesthetics of Translation	0
:Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English	0
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading. Dionne Brand. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2020. Pp. vii+52.	0
:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation	0
Old English Ecotheology: The Exeter Book. Courtney Catherine Barajas. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Pp. 230.	0
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“Magnifying God Manyfolde”: James Ryman’s Practice of Repetition	0
“Sabaoths Sight”: Merism and Its Cosmovisión in Edmund Spenser’s The Mutabilitie Cantos	0
States of Emergency: Hunger in Shakespeare	0
Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare. Laura Kolb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. x+223.	0
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:Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures	0
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. ix+145.	0
:Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation	0
“Come to My House”: The Architecture of Conversion and Christopher Marlowe’sThe Jew of Malta	0
Ethnicity, Gender, and the Making of a Transnational Decadent Canon: Georges Hérelle’s Translations of Matilde Serao and Grazia Deledda	0
:Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England	0
“Of Whom Hast Thu This Cunnyng?”: The Language of “Cunnyng” in The Book of Margery Kempe	0
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650. Eric Weiskott. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xviii+297.	0
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:Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times	0
Signos vitales: Procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea. Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2020. Pp. 364.	0
Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library. Andrew M. Stauffer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. 288.	0
:Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia	0
Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+283.	0
Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects. Crystal B. Lake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. x+261.	0
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:Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race	0
:The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English	0
:Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert	0