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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, July 10, 2019

JML 42.3 (Spring 2019) is now available

JML 42.3 (Spring 2019), on the theme "Reading a Century of Affects: From Modernist Longing to Neoliberal Disgust" is now live on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.42.issue-3 and on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40682.

Contents


Matthew Clarke
“At the Bottom”: Lytton Strachey and the Sodomitical Archive

Jennifer Spitzer
The Heterodox Psychology and Queer Poetics of Auden in the 1930s

Benjamin Kahan
Sheiks, Sweetbacks, and Harlem Renaissance Sexuality, or the Chauncey Thesis at Twenty-Five

Siobhan Phillips
Intimacy, Epistolarity, and the Work of Queer Mourning in James Schuyler’s Poetry

Patrick Jackson
The Narrative of Grief in Ted Hughes’s Crow

Elizabeth Weston
Resisting Loss: Guilt and Consolation in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Anna Ioanes
Disgust in Silhouette: Toni Morrison, Kara Walker, and the Aesthetics of Violence

Cara L. Lewis
Beholding: Visuality and Postcritical Reading in Ali Smith’s How to be both

Frederick D. King and Alison Lee
Consuming Surfaces: Decadent Aesthetics in The Debt to Pleasure

Alexander Adkins
Neoliberal Disgust in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

Scott C. Thompson
The Culture of Excess: A Review of George Cotkin’s Feast of Excess