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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.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Jean Rhys's Lively Objects and Objectified Lives


 JML author Laurel Harris discusses the "impasse genre" and her research on the lively objects and objectified lives in Jean Rhys's fiction, in a post for Indiana University Press, available HERE.

Harris's essay is now a read for FREE feature:

"Impassagenwerk: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction and the Modernist Impasse." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, Spring 2021, pp. 19-34. 

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