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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.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Forster's musical Lucy Churchill and proto-nuclear aesthetics: A Closer Look at JML 47.4




In a special feature for the Indiana University Press blog, author Ryan James McGuckin discusses female musicality in A Room with a View, and sees in the novel's inconclusive romance—as well as in Forster's 1958 essay "A View without a Room"—hints that the fear of nuclear annihilation forecloses hope about the future. Read it at https://iupress.org/connect/blog/e-m-forsters-nuclear-aesthetics-a-closer-look-at-jml-47-4/

McGuckin's JML 47.4 essay, “E. M. Forster’s Female Musicality: Inconclusive Counter-romance in A Room with a View,” is available to read for FREE.

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