Journal of Modern Literature 49.3 (Spring 2026), on the theme "Long Modernisms," edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté, is now LIVE on ProjectMuse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/57113.
Content includes:
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Long Modernisms: Editor’s Introduction
Jonathan Foster
Woolf’s Westminster: Decentering the State in Mrs. Dalloway
Carolina Iribarren
Strange Communications: Conversation Breakdowns, Monadic Hang-Ups, and Telepathic Approximations in Virginia Woolf’s Novels
Yuli Pan
Anticipating the Postdramatic: Greek Ritual, Modernist Rupture, and Theatrical Innovation in Woolf’s Theater-Fiction Between the Acts
Florian Gargallio
Histories of Violence: William Carlos Williams and Daniel Boone
Nathan Wallace
Dante and Moses in “The Parable of the Plums”
Joseph LaBine
“Gabriel the chauffeur”: James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence as Modernist Precursors to W.G. Sebald’s “Ambros Adelwarth”
Andrew Koenig
The Refusal to “Write Back” in Elizabeth Costello
Thomas Gould
The Everyday Conversation and the Construction of Whiteness in Claudia Rankine and Rachel Cusk
Carra Glatt
Trompe-l'œil: Neo-Victorian Plotting in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
Phillip Masterman Broadbent
Against the Oriental Gaze: Race and Belonging in Yoko Tawada’s The Naked Eye
Reviews
Ira Nadel
Reading Ellmann Reading Joyce
Arka Chattopadhyay
Reading The Nabokov Effect: The Letter between Literature and Cinema
Matthew Holman
Glittering Like Cut Glass
