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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism by Mary K. Holland10
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically3
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)3
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography3
William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity by Jay Watson (review)2
Peripheral Literatures and the History of Capitalism: An Introduction2
Anxiety and Community: Clune on Judgment2
Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)2
Numbered Erotics: Quantified Sexualities and Enumerative Aesthetics in Nightwood and The Young and Evil1
The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition1
Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf1
Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema by Patrick O’Donnell (review)1
Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend1
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
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives by Leah A. Milne (review)1
Judgment and Its Publics1
Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)1
Contributors1
Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg0
Writing Against Peripheralization: Glorifying Labor in Chinese Socialist Literature0
Editor’s Note0
Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review0
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America by Victoria Saramago0
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
What Is Telling? The Racial Dimensions of Narrative and Cognition in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy0
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones (review)0
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return by Patricia Chu0
Moving Visions: Matisse’s Odalisques, Sebbar’s Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation0
Olfactory Ecologies: Investigating Oil’s Smelly Residues in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep0
A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello0
American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark (review)0
Ready Player One and the Reassertion of US Economic and Technological Supremacy0
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel by Astrid Bracke0
Theorizing Gender, Crime Fiction, and the State: The Case of Dorothy B. Hughes’s The Blackbirder0
"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl0
Rooms Not One's Own: C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, and Caribbean Anticolonialism in 1930s London0
Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell0
The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW0
The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears0
Contributors0
Peripheral Labor0
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)0
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring (review)0
Irvine Welsh, Neoliberalism, and the Lumpenproletariat0
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)0
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez (review)0
"One way of looking at it": Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods0
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)0
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (review)0
The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy (review)0
Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO30
Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Culture, and Difference in Midcentury US Modernism0
Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin0
Contributors0
“Secretly Proustian”: Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway , and In Search of Lost Time0
Contributors0
“Gazing at the View”: The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando0
"What was failure? What was success?": The Impostor Syndrome's Literary Transformations0
Contributors0
Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness0
Alone Together: Connecting through Estrangement in the Black British Novel0
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (review)0
Better Futures Needed0
D. H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective by Ben Stoltzfus (review)0
Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep0
Conceptualizing Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland0
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten (review)0
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)0
Contributors0
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus (review)0
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg0
Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty0
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review)0
Contributors0
The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega0
Metaphorized (Not Real) Lives in Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love0
Aesthetic Judgment: A Pragmatic View0
Cellular Self-Making: Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder," and the Hypno-Psionic Impulse0
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History by Amy Gore (review)0
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto (review)0
The Kinesthetic Turn: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Machinery of Dance Modernism0
Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li0
Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century by Pallavi Rastogi0
Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)0
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich (review)0
Neoliberalism, Critique, and the Contemporary Novel: Tom McCarthy and Theory Fiction0
Behind Barriers, Living a Man's Life: Imperial Masculinity in Graham Greene's "The Basement Room" and The Fallen Idol0
Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice by Ina C. Seethaler (review)0
Contributors0
Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying0
Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert0
Contributors0
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy (review)0
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (review)0
"Save America From Itself": Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn0
Contributors0
“Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)0
The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 's Worlding of China0
Response to Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen (review)0
Mozambican Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Long 1980s0
Cognitive Modernisms: An Introduction0
Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers , and Professional Vocation0
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph (review)0
"People with Equal but Opposite Afflictions, Propping Each Other Up": Sleep Solidarity and Fictions of Mass Sleeplessness0
Contributors0
Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins0
Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay0
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)0
The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura0
Cognitive Maps of the Semiperiphery: Two Bengali Novels and the Transition to Colonial Capitalist Modernity0
The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading "Mother" in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime0
Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment0
Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)0
"Recalling this": Language and Irony in Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story0
Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel0
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (review)0
"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room0
Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Arielle Zibrak (review)0
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines (review)0
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida (review)0
Questions of Judgment0
"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock0
Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling0
Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack0
Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel (review)0
The Social-Scientific Imagination: Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye0
Nature Prose: Writing in Ecological Crisis by Dominic Head (review)0
Elizabeth Bowen’s Grammar of Waning Empire0
Contributors0
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe (review)0
A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes0
2024 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Unwinding Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift0
Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm (review)0
Silence and Speaking in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness0
What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook0
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig0
Editor’s Note0
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas0
"An Unknown Tongue": God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris0
Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer0
Global Weirding and Paranoid Worlding in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange0
Cosmopolis, Civility, and the Practice of Heretical History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land0
Ecologies from the Cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the Long Anthropocene0
Imperium Hibernicum? Finnegans Wake and the Pacific0
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Mark Christian Thompson (review)0
Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout0
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)0
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally (review)0
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)0
Dark Words: Blackness in Pale Fire0
Judgment all the Way Down0
A “Usable Past”: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Fictions of Memory0
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American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson0
Marcel Proust: Kinesic Styles and Consciousness as Interaction0
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman (review)0
Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein0
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series0
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner0
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Stephen Ross (review)0
Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection0
Ali Smith's Parasitic Poetics0
Deixis and Dissociation: On the Adaptive Power of Dissociated “I”s0
Judgment Takes Care of Itself0
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney (review)0
Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li (review)0
Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing0
Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry0
2021 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)0
Free Association and Empathy in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant : A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis0
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
Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature by Mitchum Huehls (review)0
The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man0
Women Thinking in Public: An Introduction0
Contributors0
Introduction to Special Issue on Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (review)0
"The New Economy and the Old Morality": Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End0
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames (review)0
2022 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)0
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts0
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)0
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark (review)0
Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography0
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)0
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)0
Global Modernism’s Networks: Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer, and a Case for Negative Ties0
Trans*-itional Longings of the “Dark Ghetto”: Rosa Guy and a Trans* Black Childhood Studies0
A Change of Heart: What It’s Like to Live in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich0
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory by Victoria Aarons0
"The Circle Stands before You": Reincarnation and Traumatic Memory in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata0
Allegories of an Embattled Public: The Red Thread of the Modern Swedish Crime Novel0
Faulknerista by Catherine Gunther Kodat (review)0
History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order0
Antoinette Cosway’s Martyrdom: Catholicism and the “Triumphant” Ending of Wide Sargasso Sea0
"A World Full of Doors": Postapocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West0
“In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity0
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist0
"You Have Fiscal Ebola": The Privatization of Risk in Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets0
Darl’s Bucket, Cash’s Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying0
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review)0
The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions0
Katherine Mansfield, Postimpressionist0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall (review)0
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle0
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck (review)0
The Forms of Irish Modernism0
The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending0
"I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too": Dildonics and Prosthetic Gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden0
Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans0
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review)0
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah0
Queer Mrs. Ramsay, or Virginia Woolf's Geomorphic Family0
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton (review)0
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley (review)0
English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky (review)0
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson (review)0
Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)0
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Oil and Capitalism in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt0
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom by Lawrie Balfour (review)0
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs (review)0
The Place of Judgment in the Conversation: A Reply to Michael W. Clune0
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli (review)0
Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams , The Home-Maker , and The Professor’s House0
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Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies0
Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs0
On Jacob's Room : The Figure and Ground of Protest0
Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius0
The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway0
Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee0
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)0
Diminishing Returns: Henry James, Alice Munro, and the Foreshortened Future0
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis0
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