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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.

Monday, July 15, 2024

JML 47.3 (Spring 2024) is now LIVE!


 Journal of Modern Literature 47.3 (Spring 2024), with a special guest-edited cluster “Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel,” and a cluster on “Ireland’s Modernists,” is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52819.

Content includes:

Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel

Doug Battersby
Introduction: Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel

Kirsty Martin
D.H. Lawrence and Shyness

Doug Battersby
Elizabeth Bowen’s Equivocal Modernism

Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
Elizabeth Bowen’s Queer Heart

Rick de Villiers
True Feints: Samuel Beckett and the Sincerity of Loneliness 

Ulrika Maude
“Other kinds of emotions”: Ishiguro’s Late-Modernist Affect 

Derek Attridge
Joycean Form, Emotion, and Contemporary Modernism: Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport and McCarthy’s The Making of Incarnation

Ireland’s Modernists

Katherine Franco
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Karl O’Hanlon
Ferdinand Levy: A Harlem Renaissance Dubliner and De-Colonial Cosmopolitanism

Danielle N. Gilman
Elizabeth Bowen’s Critical “Scrap Screen” 

Jivitesh Vashisht
“He will now think he hears her”: Indirect Perception and the Return to Proust in Samuel Beckett’s Ghost Trio

Mantra Mukim
Timbral Poetics: Samuel Beckett and the Impossible Voice

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