MFS-Modern Fiction Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of MFS-Modern Fiction Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism by Mary K. Holland10
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)3
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically2
Peripheral Literatures and the History of Capitalism: An Introduction2
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography2
Judgment and Its Publics1
The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition1
Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf1
Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)1
Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema by Patrick O’Donnell (review)1
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives by Leah A. Milne (review)1
William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity by Jay Watson (review)1
Anxiety and Community: Clune on Judgment1
Contributors1
Numbered Erotics: Quantified Sexualities and Enumerative Aesthetics in Nightwood and The Young and Evil1
Translation, Poetics of Instability, and the Postmonolingual Condition in Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words1
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang (review)1
Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review0
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel by Astrid Bracke0
"People with Equal but Opposite Afflictions, Propping Each Other Up": Sleep Solidarity and Fictions of Mass Sleeplessness0
Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)0
Contributors0
Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation0
Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present by David F. Eisler (review)0
Cognitive Modernisms: An Introduction0
"One way of looking at it": Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods0
Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment0
Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying0
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (review)0
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The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW0
The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura0
Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Culture, and Difference in Midcentury US Modernism0
Ali Smith's Parasitic Poetics0
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Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)0
Faulknerista by Catherine Gunther Kodat (review)0
What Is Telling? The Racial Dimensions of Narrative and Cognition in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy0
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory by Victoria Aarons0
Cognitive Maps of the Semiperiphery: Two Bengali Novels and the Transition to Colonial Capitalist Modernity0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines (review)0
Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay0
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (review)0
2024 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room0
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally (review)0
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames (review)0
"Recalling this": Language and Irony in Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story0
Judgment Takes Care of Itself0
Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer0
Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack0
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series0
Behind Barriers, Living a Man's Life: Imperial Masculinity in Graham Greene's "The Basement Room" and The Fallen Idol0
Questions of Judgment0
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe (review)0
Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout0
The Kinesthetic Turn: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Machinery of Dance Modernism0
"An Unknown Tongue": God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris0
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)0
"I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too": Dildonics and Prosthetic Gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden0
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review)0
Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li0
Better Futures Needed0
Aesthetic Judgment: A Pragmatic View0
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review)0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky (review)0
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck (review)0
Editor’s Note0
Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)0
Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies0
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman (review)0
Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams , The Home-Maker , and The Professor’s House0
Nature Prose: Writing in Ecological Crisis by Dominic Head (review)0
Ecologies from the Cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the Long Anthropocene0
Global Weirding and Paranoid Worlding in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange0
Neoliberalism, Critique, and the Contemporary Novel: Tom McCarthy and Theory Fiction0
Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep0
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return by Patricia Chu0
Dark Words: Blackness in Pale Fire0
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis0
Trans*-itional Longings of the “Dark Ghetto”: Rosa Guy and a Trans* Black Childhood Studies0
Response to Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies0
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson0
Women Thinking in Public: An Introduction0
Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers , and Professional Vocation0
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith (review)0
Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)0
Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins0
"The New Economy and the Old Morality": Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End0
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy (review)0
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)0
"The Circle Stands before You": Reincarnation and Traumatic Memory in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata0
A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello0
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Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida (review)0
Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li (review)0
Deixis and Dissociation: On the Adaptive Power of Dissociated “I”s0
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy (review)0
Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein0
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)0
"You Have Fiscal Ebola": The Privatization of Risk in Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets0
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Introduction to Special Issue on Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
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Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography0
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen (review)0
“Gazing at the View”: The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando0
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts0
What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook0
The Social-Scientific Imagination: Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye0
2022 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Darl’s Bucket, Cash’s Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying0
Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm (review)0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall (review)0
Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg0
Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee0
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus (review)0
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)0
"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl0
Queer Mrs. Ramsay, or Virginia Woolf's Geomorphic Family0
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History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order0
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist0
Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend0
The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions0
Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)0
Katherine Mansfield, Postimpressionist0
"What was failure? What was success?": The Impostor Syndrome's Literary Transformations0
The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading "Mother" in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime0
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten (review)0
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Marcel Proust: Kinesic Styles and Consciousness as Interaction0
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson (review)0
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Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)0
The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega0
On Jacob's Room : The Figure and Ground of Protest0
Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans0
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Oil and Capitalism in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt0
Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century by Pallavi Rastogi0
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)0
Silence and Speaking in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness0
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (review)0
English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust0
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)0
Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (review)0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)0
Mozambican Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Long 1980s0
The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 's Worlding of China0
Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert0
Elizabeth Bowen’s Grammar of Waning Empire0
Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature by Mitchum Huehls (review)0
Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice by Ina C. Seethaler (review)0
Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs0
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)0
A Change of Heart: What It’s Like to Live in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich0
“Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)0
Moving Visions: Matisse’s Odalisques, Sebbar’s Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation0
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)0
The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears0
Judgment all the Way Down0
Global Modernism’s Networks: Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer, and a Case for Negative Ties0
Ready Player One and the Reassertion of US Economic and Technological Supremacy0
Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (review)0
Rooms Not One's Own: C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, and Caribbean Anticolonialism in 1930s London0
Allegories of an Embattled Public: The Red Thread of the Modern Swedish Crime Novel0
Irvine Welsh, Neoliberalism, and the Lumpenproletariat0
American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark (review)0
"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock0
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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich (review)0
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Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto (review)0
Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell0
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review)0
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez (review)0
The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man0
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring (review)0
Writing Against Peripheralization: Glorifying Labor in Chinese Socialist Literature0
The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway0
The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending0
Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO30
Peripheral Labor0
"Save America From Itself": Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn0
D. H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective by Ben Stoltzfus (review)0
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (review)0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel0
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Mark Christian Thompson (review)0
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)0
The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights0
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg0
"A World Full of Doors": Postapocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West0
Unwinding Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift0
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones (review)0
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig0
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas0
A “Usable Past”: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Fictions of Memory0
Alone Together: Connecting through Estrangement in the Black British Novel0
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle0
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Cosmopolis, Civility, and the Practice of Heretical History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land0
Imperium Hibernicum? Finnegans Wake and the Pacific0
Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin0
Editor’s Note0
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah0
Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty0
The Place of Judgment in the Conversation: A Reply to Michael W. Clune0
Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry0
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)0
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner0
“Secretly Proustian”: Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway , and In Search of Lost Time0
The Forms of Irish Modernism0
2021 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
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Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection0
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney (review)0
“In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity0
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America by Victoria Saramago0
Cellular Self-Making: Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder," and the Hypno-Psionic Impulse0
Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling0
A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes0
Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing0
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