Journal of Modern Literature issue 48.2 (Winter 2025), on the theme "Matter, Meaning, Material" is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54502
Content includes:
Enrico Bruno
Athleticism, Accommodation, and the Labor Question in Ellison’s “Afternoon”
Grzegorz Kosc
From Coinage Metallurgy to Fiat Money: Robert Lowell’s Poetic Evolution
Sean Collins
Marianne Moore and the Environmental “Octopus” of Modernist Collage
Jeffrey Careyva
“The Mind and the Poem Are All Apiece”: William Carlos Williams and the Dysfluent Poetics of Aphasia
Frances Wear
To Worship Burning Art: T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding” as the Organon of F.W.J. von Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism
Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
The Tao of the Non-human: Ineffability, Materiality, and Ecosemiotics in Marianne Moore’s Assemblage Poetics
Bowen Wang
Vital Modernism: E.E. Cummings’s Still Life, the Quotidian, and Visceral Poetics
Ryan Kerr
Anarchism and Misery in Austerity Britain: Alan Sillitoe, Samuel Selvon, and the Origins of Neoliberalism
Reviews
Emily James and Ellie Lange
The Material Lives and Afterlives of World War I
Chen Lin
Giving Voice to the Hidden Muse: A Review of Lyndall Gordon’s The Hyacinth Girl
Orchid Tierney
“The Age of Plasticene”: A Review of Ranjan Ghosh’s The Plastic Turn
Cole Adams
Poetry After Criticism, Criticism After Poetry: A Review of The Academic Avant-Garde
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
A New Realism for Perilous Times
