Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9475004
Matt Sussman
This essay offers a significant reconceptualization of Jane Austen’s influence on political novelists of the mid-nineteenth century by examining Elizabeth Gaskell’s extensive use of Pride and Prejudice (1813) in her novel North and South (1855). At a moment when the political dimensions of Austen’s fictions were fading to obscurity, Gaskell drew on Austen’s portrayal of domestic relationships to underscore their relevance to “public” problems. On this view, the Austenian courtship plot does not contain political anxieties so much as animate them, with the logic of complementary coupling providing a formal and thematic model for the dialectical engagements necessary for navigating social conflict. At the same time, Gaskell uses Austenian motifs to dramatize the “marriageability” of different generic frameworks during a time of regional fragmentation while also envisioning Austen as a parental figure whose legacy called for continuing negotiation.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9475082
Jonathan E. Abel
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9475056
John Yargo
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9365957
C. Valentine
Decadence eludes definition, but critics tend to concur on the movement’s transgressive and uncommercial status in the British literary field. This essay questions those associations by exploring a current of archetypal decadent French novels translated by and marketed to a mainstream Anglophone audience: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s En Route (1895, trans. 1896) and La cathédrale (1898, trans. 1898) and Pierre Louÿs’s Aphrodite: Mœurs antiques (1896, trans. 1900 and 1906) and La femme et le pantin (1898, trans. 1908). By reading letters, memoirs, and prefaces alongside periodical reviews and a publisher’s archive, the essay sheds light on the novels’ invisible translators and reveals the fiscal and legal viability of “domesticated decadence.” Doing so models how translation studies and book-historical methods can revise deep-set tenets of literary history. These “poisonous” epitomes of the fin de siècle in fact circulated freely across the Channel, reaching more than the happy few.
颓废难以定义，但评论家们倾向于同意该运动在英国文学界的越界和非商业地位。本文通过探索由英语为母语的主流读者翻译并销售的典型颓废法国小说的潮流，对这些联系提出了质疑:约里斯-卡尔·休斯曼的《在路上》(1895年，英译)。1896)和La cathendrale(1898，译)。1898)和皮埃尔Louÿs的《阿芙罗狄蒂:Mœurs古董》(1896，译)。1900年和1906年)和La femme et le pantin(1898，译)。1908)。通过阅读信件、回忆录和序言，以及定期评论和出版商的档案，这篇文章揭示了这些小说的隐形译者，揭示了“驯化的颓废”在财政和法律上的可行性。这样做可以模拟翻译研究和书籍历史方法如何修正文学史的根深蒂固的原则。事实上，这些“有毒”的经济危机缩影在英吉利海峡两岸自由流通，惠及的不仅仅是少数幸福的人。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9365996
Nathaniel Likert
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9365983
L. Lanigan
This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-system disrupts Lukácsian totality. Because the novel attends to the complexity and extensiveness of the world-system, it depicts the city not as a representative totality but as embedded in the global circuits of capital, shaped by the influences of inward migration and global finance. In this the novel has affinities with many fictions of the global periphery, for instance portraying the city as at once socially fragmented and structurally connected. Furthermore, the novel departs from classical realism in its closure; though the 2008 financial crisis is omitted from the novel, it overshadows the entire plot, and its absence emphasizes the lack of finality in the story of this phase of capitalism itself. In demonstrating the temporal and spatial unknowability of contemporary capital, Lanchester’s novel both affirms the capacity of realism to trace deep systemic connections and reveals the fragility of its construction of a social totality, positing a realism attendant to its own perspectival limits within the world-system.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9090293
S. Alexander
{"title":"Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, and The Wire","authors":"S. Alexander","doi":"10.1215/00267929-9090293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9090293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44947,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY","volume":"25 1","pages":"315-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89781309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9090348
K. A. Jensen
{"title":"Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century","authors":"K. A. Jensen","doi":"10.1215/00267929-9090348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9090348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44947,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY","volume":"17 1","pages":"379-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77262058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9090387
J. Esty
{"title":"The Life after Texts, the Life within Them","authors":"J. Esty","doi":"10.1215/00267929-9090387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9090387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44947,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY","volume":"22 1","pages":"393-399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84406938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00267929-9090280
Timoth Anderson
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