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Editor’s Note Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/modern-language-quarterly/article-pdf/83/2/137/1611084/137editorsnote.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 Jeffrey Todd Knight n July 2021 I took over as editor of Modern Language Quarterly from I Marshall Brown, who retired after thirty years on the job. As it hap- pens, the first essay I ever prepared for publication I sent to MLQ,to Marshall. I was a graduate student just starting work on my dissertation. My adviser had recently attended the journal-sponsored conference “Feminism in Time” and was preparing his contribution to the special issue that would soon appear under that title. He recommended that I submit to MLQ in part because his work had been so warmly received by the journal’s longtime editor, and in part because my essay—a rangy piece on nineteenth-century book collecting, Walter Benjamin, and a lyric oddity from the French Renaissance—seemed to fit MLQ’s distinc- tive literary-history mission: its broad embrace of literature’s temporal entanglements. Marshall rejected my essay immediately. I received what I later heard others more clued in to journal legend refer to as “the full treatment”: three single-spaced pages of impossibly detailed criticism, a total inven- tory of my errors and shortcomings, delivered with a smile within seventy- two hours http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modern Language Quarterly Duke University Press

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Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington
ISSN
0026-7929
eISSN
1527-1943
DOI
10.1215/00267929-9644799
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Abstract

Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/modern-language-quarterly/article-pdf/83/2/137/1611084/137editorsnote.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 Jeffrey Todd Knight n July 2021 I took over as editor of Modern Language Quarterly from I Marshall Brown, who retired after thirty years on the job. As it hap- pens, the first essay I ever prepared for publication I sent to MLQ,to Marshall. I was a graduate student just starting work on my dissertation. My adviser had recently attended the journal-sponsored conference “Feminism in Time” and was preparing his contribution to the special issue that would soon appear under that title. He recommended that I submit to MLQ in part because his work had been so warmly received by the journal’s longtime editor, and in part because my essay—a rangy piece on nineteenth-century book collecting, Walter Benjamin, and a lyric oddity from the French Renaissance—seemed to fit MLQ’s distinc- tive literary-history mission: its broad embrace of literature’s temporal entanglements. Marshall rejected my essay immediately. I received what I later heard others more clued in to journal legend refer to as “the full treatment”: three single-spaced pages of impossibly detailed criticism, a total inven- tory of my errors and shortcomings, delivered with a smile within seventy- two hours

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Modern Language QuarterlyDuke University Press

Published: Jun 1, 2022

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