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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)10
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography4
Anxiety and Community: Clune on Judgment3
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically3
Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)3
Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)2
Contributors2
Translation, Poetics of Instability, and the Postmonolingual Condition in Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words2
"Letting Oneself Matter": The Dangers of Skepticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians2
William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity by Jay Watson (review)2
Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf1
Contributors1
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
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang (review)1
Judgment and Its Publics1
Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend1
The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition1
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives by Leah A. Milne (review)1
Questions of Judgment1
Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Culture, and Difference in Midcentury US Modernism0
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)0
Editor’s Note0
A “Usable Past”: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Fictions of Memory0
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley (review)0
Unwinding Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift0
Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep0
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series0
Contributors0
Ecologies from the Cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the Long Anthropocene0
The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading "Mother" in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime0
The Place of Judgment in the Conversation: A Reply to Michael W. Clune0
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson (review)0
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory by Victoria Aarons0
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
Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius0
"An Unknown Tongue": God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris0
Silence and Speaking in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness0
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson0
Editor’s Note0
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring (review)0
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli (review)0
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith (review)0
Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (review)0
Technologies of Uplift: Race and Beauty in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep0
Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling0
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney (review)0
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature by Morgane Cadieu (review)0
A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello0
"People with Equal but Opposite Afflictions, Propping Each Other Up": Sleep Solidarity and Fictions of Mass Sleeplessness0
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy (review)0
Contributors0
How Day Novels Work: Temporal Economy in A Day Off and Party Going0
Queer Forms by Ramzi Fawaz (review)0
Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment0
Cather and Catastrophe: Time and Environmental Realism in the Improbable West0
American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark (review)0
Publishing In The Time Of: We're Still Writing the Book of the Pandemic0
Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)0
Contributors0
The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending0
2022 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Olfactory Ecologies: Investigating Oil’s Smelly Residues in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep0
"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock0
Elizabeth Bowen’s Grammar of Waning Empire0
Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein0
Faulknerista by Catherine Gunther Kodat (review)0
Deixis and Dissociation: On the Adaptive Power of Dissociated “I”s0
Contributors0
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)0
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts0
Contributors0
Introduction: Critical Intervals0
Contributors0
The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man0
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel (review)0
Contributors0
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (review)0
A Change of Heart: What It’s Like to Live in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich0
What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook0
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto (review)0
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez (review)0
“Gazing at the View”: The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando0
D. H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective by Ben Stoltzfus (review)0
Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)0
Contributors0
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally (review)0
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig0
Drawing In The Time Of: One Seed Sprouted Another0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall (review)0
Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)0
From Tiananmen to COVID: Diasporic Witnessing and Metanarratives of Crisis0
A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes0
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (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
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist0
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review)0
Marcel Proust: Kinesic Styles and Consciousness as Interaction0
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton (review)0
Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans0
Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin0
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review)0
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Mark Christian Thompson (review)0
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake (review)0
Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice by Ina C. Seethaler (review)0
Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies0
English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust0
Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection0
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman (review)0
Philip Roth's Jewish Debility0
The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega0
Crafting Feminism: From Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present by Amy E. Elkins (review)0
In Defense of the Freaky Stuff: The Ecological Potential of Iterative Storytelling0
Teaching In The Time Of: Loving What is Not Loved0
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)0
Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs0
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (review)0
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner0
Antoinette Cosway’s Martyrdom: Catholicism and the “Triumphant” Ending of Wide Sargasso Sea0
“Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)0
The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies0
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Stephen Ross (review)0
Women Thinking in Public: An Introduction0
Trans*-itional Longings of the “Dark Ghetto”: Rosa Guy and a Trans* Black Childhood Studies0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (review)0
"The New Economy and the Old Morality": Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End0
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)0
Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams , The Home-Maker , and The Professor’s House0
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)0
Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review0
The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW0
Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies by Elizabeth Abel (review)0
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin (review)0
Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg0
Nature Prose: Writing in Ecological Crisis by Dominic Head (review)0
Moving Visions: Matisse’s Odalisques, Sebbar’s Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation0
"The Circle Stands before You": Reincarnation and Traumatic Memory in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata0
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida (review)0
"Recalling this": Language and Irony in Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story0
Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers , and Professional Vocation0
History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order0
The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura0
Contributors0
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones (review)0
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)0
Miracle Drug: Therapeutic Fantasies for Pandemic Times0
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph (review)0
The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway0
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review)0
"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl0
Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)0
Theorizing Gender, Crime Fiction, and the State: The Case of Dorothy B. Hughes’s The Blackbirder0
Judgment all the Way Down0
Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm (review)0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)0
Contributors0
Introduction: We Didn't Know, and Other Fictions0
“Secretly Proustian”: Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway , and In Search of Lost Time0
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines (review)0
Gothic Abjection, Intertextuality, and Disloyalty in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover"0
Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer0
Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature by Sarah Davison (review)0
The Kinesthetic Turn: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Machinery of Dance Modernism0
Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee0
Narrative Surveillance and Omniscience: Traces of Historiographic Metafiction in Nabokov's Work0
Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Arielle Zibrak (review)0
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (review)0
Metaphorized (Not Real) Lives in Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love0
Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty0
Alone Together: Connecting through Estrangement in the Black British Novel0
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History by Amy Gore (review)0
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten (review)0
"What was failure? What was success?": The Impostor Syndrome's Literary Transformations0
Imperium Hibernicum? Finnegans Wake and the Pacific0
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy (review)0
Aesthetic Judgment: A Pragmatic View0
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)0
Contributors0
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)0
Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner's Most Splendid Creative Leap by Frédérique Spill (review)0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky (review)0
Contributors0
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich (review)0
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe (review)0
"In Some Strange Way Altered": Miasmic Crises and Pandemic Fictions0
Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying0
Cellular Self-Making: Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder," and the Hypno-Psionic Impulse0
Judgment Takes Care of Itself0
Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century by Pallavi Rastogi0
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel by Pardis Dabashi (review)0
Contemplating "Queerness" in Anglo-American Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Children's Books: The Case of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden0
Neoliberalism, Critique, and the Contemporary Novel: Tom McCarthy and Theory Fiction0
Contributors0
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom by Lawrie Balfour (review)0
Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)0
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return by Patricia Chu0
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)0
Katherine Mansfield, Postimpressionist0
Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present by David F. Eisler (review)0
The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 's Worlding of China0
Diminishing Returns: Henry James, Alice Munro, and the Foreshortened Future0
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)0
The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century by Patrick R. O'Malley (review)0
Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation0
Darl’s Bucket, Cash’s Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying0
The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears0
Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity by Takeo Rivera (review)0
Irvine Welsh, Neoliberalism, and the Lumpenproletariat0
Global Modernism’s Networks: Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer, and a Case for Negative Ties0
"Save America From Itself": Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn0
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)0
Narrative Scarring in The Underground Railroad0
"One way of looking at it": Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods0
Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay0
Free Association and Empathy in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant : A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis0
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs (review)0
Cognitive Modernisms: An Introduction0
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark (review)0
"You Have Fiscal Ebola": The Privatization of Risk in Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets0
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)0
Introduction to Special Issue on Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
Contributors0
Prescient Plague Fiction: How Science Fiction Anticipates Corporate Pandemic Profiteering0
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames (review)0
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen (review)0
Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li (review)0
Plotting Pandemic Fiction0
Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li0
"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights0
Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography0
“In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity0
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck (review)0
On Jacob's Room : The Figure and Ground of Protest0
Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack0
Conceptualizing Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland0
The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions0
Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO30
2024 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Queer Mrs. Ramsay, or Virginia Woolf's Geomorphic Family0
Global Weirding and Paranoid Worlding in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange0
"A World Full of Doors": Postapocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West0
Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel0
Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness0
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus (review)0
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas0
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