Modern Language Quarterly 71:1

World Literature and the Dynamic Function of Translation–Wang Ning

Defining Obscenity, Inventing Pornography: The Limits of Censorship in Rétif de la Bretonne–Amy S. Wyngaard

"Very Saleable Articles, Indeed": Margaret Oliphant's Repackaging of Sensational Finance–Tamara S. Wagner

The Poetry of the Future; or, Periodizing the Nineteenth Century–Andrew Parker

Reviews

Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness–Judith H. Anderson

By Meredith Anne Skura. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 301 pp.

Romanticism and the Rise of English–David Simpson

By Andrew Elfenbein. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. viii + 278 pp.

The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature–Rosemarie Bodenheimer

By Andrew H. Miller. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. xiv + 260 pp.

The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire–Vincent P. Pecora

By J. Jeffrey Franklin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 273 pp.

Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post)modern "Third Aesthetic"–Linda Hutcheon

By Herbert Grabes. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. xiii + 172 pp.