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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)10
The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism by Mary K. Holland3
Peripheral Literatures and the History of Capitalism: An Introduction1
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography1
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
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically1
William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity by Jay Watson (review)1
Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)1
The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition1
Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf1
Anxiety and Community: Clune on Judgment1
Judgment and Its Publics1
Contributors1
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (review)0
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)0
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson0
2021 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography0
Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer0
Questions of Judgment0
Judgment all the Way Down0
Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness0
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines (review)0
Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)0
Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature by Mitchum Huehls (review)0
Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema by Patrick O’Donnell (review)0
The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears0
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
Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis0
Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack0
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman (review)0
Better Futures Needed0
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)0
Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee0
Global Weirding and Paranoid Worlding in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange0
"The Circle Stands before You": Reincarnation and Traumatic Memory in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata0
Ali Smith's Parasitic Poetics0
"What was failure? What was success?": The Impostor Syndrome's Literary Transformations0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry0
Nature Prose: Writing in Ecological Crisis by Dominic Head (review)0
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America by Victoria Saramago0
Neoliberalism, Critique, and the Contemporary Novel: Tom McCarthy and Theory Fiction0
Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation0
Contributors0
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return by Patricia Chu0
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory by Victoria Aarons0
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney (review)0
Katherine Mansfield, Postimpressionist0
"The New Economy and the Old Morality": Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End0
"A World Full of Doors": Postapocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West0
Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling0
Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing0
Writing Against Peripheralization: Glorifying Labor in Chinese Socialist Literature0
"Save America From Itself": Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn0
Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans0
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel by Astrid Bracke0
Irvine Welsh, Neoliberalism, and the Lumpenproletariat0
Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present by David F. Eisler (review)0
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas0
Moving Visions: Matisse’s Odalisques, Sebbar’s Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation0
Contributors0
"One way of looking at it": Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods0
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)0
Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams , The Home-Maker , and The Professor’s House0
The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura0
The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights0
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen (review)0
Silence and Speaking in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness0
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (review)0
Editor’s Note0
"You Have Fiscal Ebola": The Privatization of Risk in Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets0
Peripheral Labor0
Cellular Self-Making: Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder," and the Hypno-Psionic Impulse0
Contributors0
A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes0
D. H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective by Ben Stoltzfus (review)0
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)0
Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)0
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)0
Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)0
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg0
"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock0
Numbered Erotics: Quantified Sexualities and Enumerative Aesthetics in Nightwood and The Young and Evil0
The Forms of Irish Modernism0
"I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too": Dildonics and Prosthetic Gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden0
"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room0
Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li0
History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order0
2022 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Ready Player One and the Reassertion of US Economic and Technological Supremacy0
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)0
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus (review)0
Marcel Proust: Kinesic Styles and Consciousness as Interaction0
What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook0
The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading "Mother" in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies0
The Social-Scientific Imagination: Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye0
Queer Mrs. Ramsay, or Virginia Woolf's Geomorphic Family0
Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel0
Contributors0
The Kinesthetic Turn: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Machinery of Dance Modernism0
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten (review)0
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist0
Response to Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy (review)0
Deixis and Dissociation: On the Adaptive Power of Dissociated “I”s0
"People with Equal but Opposite Afflictions, Propping Each Other Up": Sleep Solidarity and Fictions of Mass Sleeplessness0
Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein0
"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl0
Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall (review)0
Trans*-itional Longings of the “Dark Ghetto”: Rosa Guy and a Trans* Black Childhood Studies0
Editor’s Note0
Mozambican Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Long 1980s0
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts0
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith (review)0
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review)0
Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)0
Ecologies from the Cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the Long Anthropocene0
Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins0
Contributors0
A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello0
Imperium Hibernicum? Finnegans Wake and the Pacific0
Contributors0
Dark Words: Blackness in Pale Fire0
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida (review)0
Faulknerista by Catherine Gunther Kodat (review)0
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)0
Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice by Ina C. Seethaler (review)0
Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)0
Elizabeth Bowen’s Grammar of Waning Empire0
English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust0
Contributors0
Global Modernism’s Networks: Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer, and a Case for Negative Ties0
"Recalling this": Language and Irony in Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story0
Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs0
Cognitive Modernisms: An Introduction0
The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway0
What Is Telling? The Racial Dimensions of Narrative and Cognition in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy0
Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend0
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy (review)0
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (review)0
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez (review)0
Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout0
Contributors0
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives by Leah A. Milne (review)0
Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg0
Cosmopolis, Civility, and the Practice of Heretical History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land0
Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO30
Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)0
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review)0
Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies0
A Change of Heart: What It’s Like to Live in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich0
The Place of Judgment in the Conversation: A Reply to Michael W. Clune0
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah0
On Jacob's Room : The Figure and Ground of Protest0
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally (review)0
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner0
Contributors0
American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark (review)0
"An Unknown Tongue": God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris0
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Oil and Capitalism in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt0
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series0
Contributors0
Aesthetic Judgment: A Pragmatic View0
Alone Together: Connecting through Estrangement in the Black British Novel0
Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (review)0
Behind Barriers, Living a Man's Life: Imperial Masculinity in Graham Greene's "The Basement Room" and The Fallen Idol0
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)0
Contributors0
The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions0
Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment0
Introduction to Special Issue on Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
Women Thinking in Public: An Introduction0
Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century by Pallavi Rastogi0
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (review)0
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)0
Cognitive Maps of the Semiperiphery: Two Bengali Novels and the Transition to Colonial Capitalist Modernity0
2024 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Contributors0
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle0
“Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)0
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Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection0
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)0
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)0
The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW0
The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega0
Rooms Not One's Own: C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, and Caribbean Anticolonialism in 1930s London0
The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 's Worlding of China0
Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Culture, and Difference in Midcentury US Modernism0
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones (review)0
Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying0
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring (review)0
Judgment Takes Care of Itself0
Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay0
Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep0
Darl’s Bucket, Cash’s Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying0
Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell0
Allegories of an Embattled Public: The Red Thread of the Modern Swedish Crime Novel0
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