MFS-Modern Fiction Studies

Article	Citations
The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism by Mary K. Holland	10
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)	4
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically	3
Anxiety and Community: Clune on Judgment	3
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography	3
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 Barbarians	2
Translation, Poetics of Instability, and the Postmonolingual Condition in Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words	2
Contributors	1
The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition	1
Numbered Erotics: Quantified Sexualities and Enumerative Aesthetics in Nightwood and The Young and Evil	1
Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema by Patrick O’Donnell (review)	1
Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf	1
Judgment and Its Publics	1
Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend	1
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 Judgment	1
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig	0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall (review)	0
Contributors	0
Editor’s Note	0
Unwinding Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift	0

Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)	0
Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing	0
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten (review)	0
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review)	0
Katherine Mansfield, Postimpressionist	0
2021 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize	0
Better Futures Needed	0
Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty	0
“Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)	0
Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep	0
Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans	0
"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl	0
Contributors	0
Aesthetic Judgment: A Pragmatic View	0
Queer Forms by Ramzi Fawaz (review)	0
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review)	0
"One way of looking at it": Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods	0
Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams , The Home-Maker , and The Professor’s House	0
English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust	0
Contributors	0
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Mark Christian Thompson (review)	0
Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century by Pallavi Rastogi	0
The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW	0
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman (review)	0
Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)	0
"You Have Fiscal Ebola": The Privatization of Risk in Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets	0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)	0
Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack	0
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (review)	0
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)	0
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones (review)	0
Neoliberalism, Critique, and the Contemporary Novel: Tom McCarthy and Theory Fiction	0
Diminishing Returns: Henry James, Alice Munro, and the Foreshortened Future	0
"What was failure? What was success?": The Impostor Syndrome's Literary Transformations	0
Contributors	0
How Day Novels Work: Temporal Economy in A Day Off and Party Going	0
The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man	0
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America by Victoria Saramago	0
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark (review)	0
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck (review)	0
Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg	0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)	0
Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)	0
"People with Equal but Opposite Afflictions, Propping Each Other Up": Sleep Solidarity and Fictions of Mass Sleeplessness	0
Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein	0
Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer	0
Ready Player One and the Reassertion of US Economic and Technological Supremacy	0
Conceptualizing Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland	0
Contributors	0
Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment	0

Olfactory Ecologies: Investigating Oil’s Smelly Residues in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep	0
Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout	0
Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li	0
The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura	0
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)	0
Introduction to Special Issue on Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment	0
Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Culture, and Difference in Midcentury US Modernism	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 Story	0
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return by Patricia Chu	0
Judgment all the Way Down	0
The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway	0
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally (review)	0
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez (review)	0
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph (review)	0
The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading "Mother" in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime	0
“Secretly Proustian”: Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway , and In Search of Lost Time	0
Gothic Abjection, Intertextuality, and Disloyalty in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover"	0
Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation	0
Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice by Ina C. Seethaler (review)	0
Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO3	0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)	0
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis	0
Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness	0
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (review)	0
The Kinesthetic Turn: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Machinery of Dance Modernism	0
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (review)	0
Philip Roth's Jewish Debility	0
Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature by Sarah Davison (review)	0
Contemplating "Queerness" in Anglo-American Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Children's Books: The Case of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden	0
Cosmopolis, Civility, and the Practice of Heretical History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land	0
Imperium Hibernicum? Finnegans Wake and the Pacific	0
Alone Together: Connecting through Estrangement in the Black British Novel	0
Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling	0
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson (review)	0
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)	0
Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present by David F. Eisler (review)	0
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson	0
Cather and Catastrophe: Time and Environmental Realism in the Improbable West	0
The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega	0
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)	0
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)	0
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah	0
Contributors	0
Darl’s Bucket, Cash’s Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying	0
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)	0
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series	0
Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying	0
Contributors	0
Global Modernism’s Networks: Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer, and a Case for Negative Ties	0
"An Unknown Tongue": God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris	0
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner	0
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)	0
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe (review)	0
Technologies of Uplift: Race and Beauty in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep	0
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom by Lawrie Balfour (review)	0
Behind Barriers, Living a Man's Life: Imperial Masculinity in Graham Greene's "The Basement Room" and The Fallen Idol	0
"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock	0
Trans*-itional Longings of the “Dark Ghetto”: Rosa Guy and a Trans* Black Childhood Studies	0
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen (review)	0
Ali Smith's Parasitic Poetics	0
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy (review)	0
Contributors	0
Irvine Welsh, Neoliberalism, and the Lumpenproletariat	0
Contributors	0
Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review	0
Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay	0
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel by Pardis Dabashi (review)	0
The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies	0
Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm (review)	0
Contributors	0
What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook	0
Moving Visions: Matisse’s Odalisques, Sebbar’s Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation	0
"The New Economy and the Old Morality": Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End	0
"A World Full of Doors": Postapocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West	0
Queer Mrs. Ramsay, or Virginia Woolf's Geomorphic Family	0
Contributors	0
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)	0
Rooms Not One's Own: C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, and Caribbean Anticolonialism in 1930s London	0
Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies by Elizabeth Abel (review)	0

Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers , and Professional Vocation	0
Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)	0
Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin	0
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney (review)	0
Deixis and Dissociation: On the Adaptive Power of Dissociated “I”s	0
Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Arielle Zibrak (review)	0
A “Usable Past”: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Fictions of Memory	0
Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)	0
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)	0
Crafting Feminism: From Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present by Amy E. Elkins (review)	0
“In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity	0
"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room	0
The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 's Worlding of China	0
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines (review)	0
Marcel Proust: Kinesic Styles and Consciousness as Interaction	0
Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection	0
The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions	0
2024 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize	0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)	0
Judgment Takes Care of Itself	0
The Social-Scientific Imagination: Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye	0
On Jacob's Room : The Figure and Ground of Protest	0
Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert	0
"I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too": Dildonics and Prosthetic Gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden	0
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas	0
A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	0
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History by Amy Gore (review)	0
Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner's Most Splendid Creative Leap by Frédérique Spill (review)	0
Global Weirding and Paranoid Worlding in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange	0
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith (review)	0
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake (review)	0
Editor’s Note	0
Women Thinking in Public: An Introduction	0
Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance by Laura Doyle	0
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton (review)	0
A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello	0
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley (review)	0
Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs	0
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin (review)	0
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory by Victoria Aarons	0
Ecologies from the Cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the Long Anthropocene	0
Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee	0
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus (review)	0
Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies	0
Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (review)	0
The Place of Judgment in the Conversation: A Reply to Michael W. Clune	0
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida (review)	0
Silence and Speaking in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness	0
Dark Words: Blackness in Pale Fire	0
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs (review)	0
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring (review)	0
Faulknerista by Catherine Gunther Kodat (review)	0
Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius	0
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Stephen Ross (review)	0
Cellular Self-Making: Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder," and the Hypno-Psionic Impulse	0
Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell	0
History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order	0
The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century by Patrick R. O'Malley (review)	0
Theorizing Gender, Crime Fiction, and the State: The Case of Dorothy B. Hughes’s The Blackbirder	0
Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (review)	0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky (review)	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review)	0
"Save America From Itself": Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn	0
American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark (review)	0
Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li (review)	0
D. H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective by Ben Stoltzfus (review)	0
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist	0
The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending	0
Cognitive Modernisms: An Introduction	0
The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears	0
Free Association and Empathy in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant : A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis	0
Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg	0
2022 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize	0
Antoinette Cosway’s Martyrdom: Catholicism and the “Triumphant” Ending of Wide Sargasso Sea	0
Elizabeth Bowen’s Grammar of Waning Empire	0
Narrative Scarring in The Underground Railroad	0
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature by Morgane Cadieu (review)	0
Metaphorized (Not Real) Lives in Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love	0
Contributors	0
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli (review)	0
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel (review)	0
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts	0
Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel	0
Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography	0
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)	0
Contributors	0
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto (review)	0
“Gazing at the View”: The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando	0
A Change of Heart: What It’s Like to Live in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich	0
The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights	0
"The Circle Stands before You": Reincarnation and Traumatic Memory in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata	0
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (review)	0
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich (review)	0