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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 14, 2025

NEW ISSUE: JML 48.4 "History and Geography" is now LIVE

 


Journal of Modern Literature 48.4 (Summer 2025) on the theme "History and Geography" is now LIVE on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55722.


Content includes:

James Dutton

A Future Happening: The Man Without Qualities’ Unfinishable History


Laura L. Behling

“[T]his trivial and vulgar occasion”: P.R. Stephensen’s Lampoons of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness


Andrés Ibarra Cordero

Backwardness in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library


Hannah Loeb

“Like leaves against the sunlight”: Translucent Trans-Historicism in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight” 


Cilliers van den Berg

Patterns of Meaning and the Claims of History: S.J. Naudé’s The Third Reel


Denis Topalović 

The Rings of Sarajevo: W.G. Sebald and the Bosnian War


Aaron Shaheen

The Restitution of Harold Krebs: A Cartographic Reading of Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” 


Duncan Hay

Downriver’s Flâneur(s): Space and Representation in the Fiction of Iain Sinclair


Ryan Johnson

Confused Categories: Russia and the East-West Divide in William Plomer’s Sado


Reviews 

Jack Dudley

Methodological Pluralism and the Cause of Progress: A Review Essay of Jesse Wolfe’s Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury


Laura de la Parra Fernández

Postwar Interiorities: Review of The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel


Hong Zeng and Ping Zhang

The Impact of Taoist and Zen Literature and Arts on Western Modernism: A Dialogue with Zhaoming Qian


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