Modern Language Quarterly 72:2

On Literary Worlds– Eric Hayot

Finding Freedom in Hamlet– Joshua Scodel

The Critique of Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne– Raphaël Ingelbien and Benedicte Seynhaeve

Reading Bradley after Reading Laforgue: How Eliot Transformed Symbolist Poetics into a Paradigmatic Modernism – Charles Altieri

Reviews

History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence

History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence. By Dominick LaCapra. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. ix + 230 pp.– John E. Toews

Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe

Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe. By Timothy Hampton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 235 pp.–Hassan Melehy

The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture

The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture. By Bruce R. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 326 pp.– Maureen Quilligan

Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction

Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction. By Garrett Stewart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 268 pp.–Nicholas Dames

Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing

Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing. By Katherine Adams. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. vi + 264 pp.– Joycelyn Moody

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. By Alexander C. Y. Huang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xi + 350 pp.–Bi-qi Beatrice Lei

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. By Enda Duffy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 306 pp.–Jessica Burstein