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More than four decades after its founding, the Journal of Modern Literature remains a leading scholarly journal in the field of modern and contemporary literature and is widely recognized as such. It emphasizes scholarly studies of literature in all languages, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. International in its scope, its contributors include scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceana, and South America.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Winter 2019 issue is live!


JML 42.2 (Winter 2019), a Special Issue on the theme "Varieties of Embodiment: Whose Body?" is now available online at JSTOR and Project Muse.

Contents:


Eric Sandberg
“The Body in the Bath”: Dorothy L. Sayers's Whose Body? and Embodied Detective Fiction (pp. 1-20)

Sarah Kingston
“Great Sleepless Artists”: Humbert Humbert's Insomnias in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (pp. 21-37)

Julia Chan
The Brave New Worlds of Birth Control: Women's Travel in Soviet Russia and Naomi Mitchison's We Have Been Warned (pp. 38-56)
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Greg Kinzer
“Throat in Hand”: Myung Mi Kim's Poetics of the Physical (pp. 57-74)

Valerie O'Brien
“A Genius for Unreality”: Neurodiversity in Elizabeth Bowen's Eva Trout (pp. 75-93)
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Rebecah Pulsifer
“Contemplating the idiot” in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (pp. 94-112)

Joshua R. Galat
Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability (pp. 113-131)

Hannah Simpson
Kinesthetic Empathy, Physical Recoil: The Conflicting Embodied Affects of Samuel Beckett's Quad (pp. 132-148)

Imola Nagy-Seres
Malleable Sculptures in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room and Early Travel Diaries (pp. 149-166)

Lillian Hingley
The Failed-Escape Artist: Kafka, Houdini and “In the Penal Colony” (pp. 167-184)


Book Reviews
Narrative Strategies and Fictional Intellectual Disabilities (pp. 185-191)
The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read by Michael Bérubé
Review by: Michael Patrick Hart

“A spectacle and nothing strange”: Rebecca Sanchez's Deafening Modernism (pp. 192-197)
Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature by Rebecca Sanchez
Review by: Caiden Feldmiller

Normativity and the Modernist Bodymind (pp. 198-200)
Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature by Maren Tova Linett
Review by: Rebecca Sanchez

A Fragmentary Illness (pp. 201-205)
Unica Zürn: Art, Writing and Postwar Surrealism by Esra Plumer
Review by: Charles Clements

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