MFS-Modern Fiction Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism by Mary K. Holland10
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)4
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically3
Anxiety and Community: Clune on Judgment3
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography3
Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)3
William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity by Jay Watson (review)2
"Letting Oneself Matter": The Dangers of Skepticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians2
Translation, Poetics of Instability, and the Postmonolingual Condition in Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words2
Numbered Erotics: Quantified Sexualities and Enumerative Aesthetics in Nightwood and The Young and Evil1
Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema by Patrick O’Donnell (review)1
Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf1
Judgment and Its Publics1
Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend1
Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)1
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang (review)1
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives by Leah A. Milne (review)1
Questions of Judgment1
Contributors1
The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition1
Queer Forms by Ramzi Fawaz (review)0
Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein0
Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies0
Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg0
The Place of Judgment in the Conversation: A Reply to Michael W. Clune0
"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl0
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory by Victoria Aarons0
The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW0
Olfactory Ecologies: Investigating Oil’s Smelly Residues in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep0
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring (review)0
"One way of looking at it": Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods0
Ready Player One and the Reassertion of US Economic and Technological Supremacy0
Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius0
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Silence and Speaking in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness0
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones (review)0
Introduction to Special Issue on Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century by Patrick R. O'Malley (review)0
"You Have Fiscal Ebola": The Privatization of Risk in Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets0
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames (review)0
Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (review)0
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (review)0
Cellular Self-Making: Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder," and the Hypno-Psionic Impulse0
The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway0
"Save America From Itself": Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn0
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck (review)0
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez (review)0
American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark (review)0
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The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man0
Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation0
Cognitive Modernisms: An Introduction0
Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer0
Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO30
The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
Elizabeth Bowen’s Grammar of Waning Empire0
Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout0
Philip Roth's Jewish Debility0
Narrative Scarring in The Underground Railroad0
Conceptualizing Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland0
2022 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
The Kinesthetic Turn: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Machinery of Dance Modernism0
Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Culture, and Difference in Midcentury US Modernism0
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson (review)0
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel (review)0
Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li0
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)0
Alone Together: Connecting through Estrangement in the Black British Novel0
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli (review)0
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally (review)0
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah0
“Gazing at the View”: The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando0
The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading "Mother" in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime0
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson0
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (review)0
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)0
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto (review)0
Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice by Ina C. Seethaler (review)0
"An Unknown Tongue": God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall (review)0
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis0
Technologies of Uplift: Race and Beauty in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep0
Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)0
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Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig0
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review)0
Contemplating "Queerness" in Anglo-American Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Children's Books: The Case of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden0
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy (review)0
Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty0
Behind Barriers, Living a Man's Life: Imperial Masculinity in Graham Greene's "The Basement Room" and The Fallen Idol0
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten (review)0
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (review)0
Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep0
Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present by David F. Eisler (review)0
The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies0
Aesthetic Judgment: A Pragmatic View0
Irvine Welsh, Neoliberalism, and the Lumpenproletariat0
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review)0
Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling0
Darl’s Bucket, Cash’s Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying0
"A World Full of Doors": Postapocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West0
Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century by Pallavi Rastogi0
Cather and Catastrophe: Time and Environmental Realism in the Improbable West0
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The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman (review)0
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)0
Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams , The Home-Maker , and The Professor’s House0
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)0
Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers , and Professional Vocation0
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)0
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series0
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Neoliberalism, Critique, and the Contemporary Novel: Tom McCarthy and Theory Fiction0
Global Modernism’s Networks: Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer, and a Case for Negative Ties0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)0
Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Arielle Zibrak (review)0
How Day Novels Work: Temporal Economy in A Day Off and Party Going0
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Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)0
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America by Victoria Saramago0
"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock0
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen (review)0
"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room0
Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)0
Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm (review)0
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines (review)0
"People with Equal but Opposite Afflictions, Propping Each Other Up": Sleep Solidarity and Fictions of Mass Sleeplessness0
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Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
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Queer Mrs. Ramsay, or Virginia Woolf's Geomorphic Family0
The Social-Scientific Imagination: Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye0
Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment0
What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook0
The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura0
Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)0
Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner's Most Splendid Creative Leap by Frédérique Spill (review)0
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)0
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)0
"Recalling this": Language and Irony in Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story0
A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes0
A “Usable Past”: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Fictions of Memory0
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle0
Judgment all the Way Down0
Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin0
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph (review)0
Editor’s Note0
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return by Patricia Chu0
The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 's Worlding of China0
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus (review)0
Gothic Abjection, Intertextuality, and Disloyalty in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover"0
Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection0
Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)0
Ecologies from the Cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the Long Anthropocene0
“Secretly Proustian”: Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway , and In Search of Lost Time0
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (review)0
Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert0
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Stephen Ross (review)0
Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature by Sarah Davison (review)0
Dark Words: Blackness in Pale Fire0
Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness0
Judgment Takes Care of Itself0
Imperium Hibernicum? Finnegans Wake and the Pacific0
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith (review)0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky (review)0
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)0
Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell0
Cosmopolis, Civility, and the Practice of Heretical History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land0
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History by Amy Gore (review)0
A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello0
Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li (review)0
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Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)0
Women Thinking in Public: An Introduction0
The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega0
Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (review)0
Free Association and Empathy in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant : A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis0
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner0
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin (review)0
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist0
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe (review)0
Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee0
Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying0
Faulknerista by Catherine Gunther Kodat (review)0
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature by Morgane Cadieu (review)0
Trans*-itional Longings of the “Dark Ghetto”: Rosa Guy and a Trans* Black Childhood Studies0
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida (review)0
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Ali Smith's Parasitic Poetics0
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs (review)0
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom by Lawrie Balfour (review)0
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts0
Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review0
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Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography0
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel by Pardis Dabashi (review)0
History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order0
Theorizing Gender, Crime Fiction, and the State: The Case of Dorothy B. Hughes’s The Blackbirder0
A Change of Heart: What It’s Like to Live in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich0
Moving Visions: Matisse’s Odalisques, Sebbar’s Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation0
D. H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective by Ben Stoltzfus (review)0
"The Circle Stands before You": Reincarnation and Traumatic Memory in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata0
"The New Economy and the Old Morality": Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End0
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review)0
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Rooms Not One's Own: C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, and Caribbean Anticolonialism in 1930s London0
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg0
Unwinding Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift0
Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies by Elizabeth Abel (review)0
The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending0
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney (review)0
Metaphorized (Not Real) Lives in Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love0
Better Futures Needed0
Deixis and Dissociation: On the Adaptive Power of Dissociated “I”s0
Antoinette Cosway’s Martyrdom: Catholicism and the “Triumphant” Ending of Wide Sargasso Sea0
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)0
Katherine Mansfield, Postimpressionist0
Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel0
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“In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity0
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Marcel Proust: Kinesic Styles and Consciousness as Interaction0
Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans0
Crafting Feminism: From Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present by Amy E. Elkins (review)0
The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights0
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Mark Christian Thompson (review)0
2024 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich (review)0
Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)0
On Jacob's Room : The Figure and Ground of Protest0
English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust0
The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions0
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas0
Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing0
Diminishing Returns: Henry James, Alice Munro, and the Foreshortened Future0
Global Weirding and Paranoid Worlding in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange0
Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack0
"I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too": Dildonics and Prosthetic Gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden0
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Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake (review)0
“Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)0
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark (review)0
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton (review)0
"What was failure? What was success?": The Impostor Syndrome's Literary Transformations0
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley (review)0
2021 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
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