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| MODERNISG | ANGUAGE OUFRTERLY EDITORS Marshall Brown John C. Coldewey EDITORIAL BOARD Joanne Altieri Ernst H. Behler Kathleen A. Blake Jane K. Brown Douglas Collins Gary Handwerk Raimonda Modiano Ross Posnock Michael L. Quinn Cynthia Steele Marian Sugano Eugene Vance Evan Watkins Sabine Wilke ASSISTANT EDITORS James I. McNelis Graham R. Shutt MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY Volume 53—1992 ARTICLES Archibald, Elizabeth. Tradition and Innovation in the Macaronic Poetry of Dunbar and Skelton Benson, C. David. Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde Boffey, Julia. Lydgate, Henryson, and the Literary Testament Booth, Mark. Written and Writing Bards in Eighteenth- eo gs eeeS Tee eee Tee EET TCT TT Bronfen, Elisabeth. “Lasciatemi Morir”: Representations of the Diva’s Swan Song Bullock, Marcus. Benjamin, Baudelaire, Rossetti, and the Discovery of Error Copeland, Rita. Lydgate, Hawes, and the Science of Rhetoric in the Late Middle Ages ...............45. INDEX Edwards, A.S.G. Introduction to Tradition and Innovation in Fifteenth-Century Poetry: A Special Issue of Modern Language Quarterly Fein, Susanna Greer. Form and Continuity in the Alliterative Tradition: Cruciform Design and Double Birth in Two Stanzaic Poems Gallagher, Catherine. Nohody’s Story: Gender, Property, and the Rise of the Novel Geller, Jay. Hegel’s Self-Conscious Woman KowalikJ,i ll Anne. Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre O’Brien, Timothy D. Troubling Waters: The Feminine and the Wife of Bath’s Performance Pearsall, Derek. Lydgate as Innovator Popkin, Richard H. New Views on the Role of Skepticism in the Enlightenment Rawson, Claude. “Indians” and Irish: Montaigne, Swift, and the Cannibal Question Readings, Bill. Sublime Politics: The End of the Party Line. . Ryan, Judith. Dead Poets’ Voices: Rilke’s “Lost From the Outset” and the Originality Effect Spearing, A.C. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d’Orléans. . . . Stoicheff, Peter. Between Originality and Indebtedness: Allegories of Authorship in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury REVIEWS Altick, Richard D. The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel [David Parker] Baker, Houston A.,Jr . |W orkings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing |J oycelyn Moody] Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Office of “The Scarlet Letter” [Richard Brodhead] DeKoven, Marianne. Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism [Vincent P. Pecora] Greenblatt, Stephen J. Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture [Edward Pechter] Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender [Sheila Delany] Hartman, Geoffrey H. Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Cultural Wars [Mark Edmundson] Hutcheon, Linda. Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies [Georgiana M. M. Colvile]} Levenson, Michael. Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf {Ruth Bernard Yeazell] McGann, Jerome J. The Textual Condition [Stephen Parrish] . Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation [Donald G. Marshall] Terras, Victor. A History of Russian Literature {Hugh McLean] Welsh, Alexander. Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Evidence in England {David Punter]