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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.

A Closer Look


Our parent press, Indiana UP, publishes this series of blog posts by JML authors explaining background for their essays, how they landed on their topics and avenues for future research. 

The "Closer Look" pieces from 2019 were lost during a change of platform conversion.


Alison Bechdel and Primetime’s “Mad” Women: A Closer Look at JML 39.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/alison-bechdel-and-primetimes-mad-women-a-closer-look-at-jml-394/


“And we’ll all on go as if….”: Re-Visiting Christine Brooke-Rose [JML 44.3]

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/christine-brooke-rose/


An Antidote to the Myth of Historical Progress: A Closer Look at JML 41.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/an-antidote-to-the-myth-of-historical-progress-a-closer-look-at-jml-413/


Approaching Cryptic Poetry: A Closer Look at JML 43.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/approaching-cryptic-poetry-a-closer-look-at-jml-43-4/


The Beast Turning Human: A Closer Look at JML 46.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/the-beast-turning-human-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-4/


Becketts Permanent Revolution: A Closer Look at JML 46.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/becketts-permanent-revolution-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-3/


Becoming Laura: The Impact of Tennessee Williams’s Revisions of You Touched Me! on The Glass Menagerie, 1942–43

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/tennessee-williams/


Charlotte Salomon and “Something Really Crazy”: A Closer Look at JML 41.1

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/charlotte-salomon-and-something-really-crazy-a-closer-look-at-jml-411/


Coetzee’s Survival Tactics: A Closer Look at JML 46.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/coetzees-survival-tactics-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-2/


Dangerous epistles in Joyce and Proust: A Closer Look at JML 42.4

https://iupress.typepad.com/blog/2019/10/dangerous-epistles-in-joyce-and-proust-a-closer-look-at-jml-424.html


The Deeply Rooted Heritage of Recycled Poetics: A Closer Look at JML 47.1

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/the-deeply-rooted-heritage-of-recycled-poetics-a-closer-look-at-jml-47-1/


Disordering Modernism: On T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: A Closer Look at JML 41.3

https://iupress.typepad.com/blog/2018/08/disordering-modernism-on-ts-eliots-the-waste-land-a-closer-look-at-jml-413.html


The Elements of Pace in Spy Fiction: A Closer Look at JML 46.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/the-elements-of-pace-in-spy-fiction-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-2/


Eliot’s Gripping Crustaceans: A Closer Look at JML 45.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/eliots-gripping-crustaceans/


Fossil Fuel Modernities: A Closer Look at JML 43.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/fossil-fuel-modernities-a-closer-look-at-jml-43-2/


Gertrude Stein and the Future of Intelligence: A Closer Look at JML 43.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/gertrude-stein-and-the-future-of-intelligence-a-closer-look-at-jml-43-3/


A Gothic Understanding of Samuel Beckett’s Unsettling Laughter: A Closer Look at JML 40.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/a-gothic-understanding-of-samuel-becketts-unsettling-laughter-a-closer-look-at-jml-404/


Hope is Hard Work: A Closer Look at JML 41.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/hope-is-hard-work-a-closer-look-at-jml-412/


Howe It Is: A Closer Look at JML 45.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/howe-it-is-a-closer-lookat-jml454/


Hunting Ghosts with F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Closer Look at JML 41.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/hunting-ghosts-with-f-scott-fitzgerald-a-closer-look-at-jml-414/


Into the Unknown with Borges and Joyce: A Closer Look at JML 41.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/into-the-unknown-with-borges-and-joyce-a-closer-look-at-jml-412/


The Jack Kerouac Show: A Closer Look at JML 43.1

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/the-jack-kerouac-show-a-closer-look-at-jml-43-1/


Jean Rhys’s Lively Objects and Objectified Lives: A Closer Look at JML 44.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/jean-rhyss-jml-44-3/


Laughing at Fascism in Vonnegut's Mother Night: A Closer Look at JML 46.1

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/laughing-at-fascism-in-vonneguts-mother-night-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-1/


Maps and Traps in Joyce's Ulysses: A Closer Look at JML 46.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/maps-and-traps-in-joyces-ulysses-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-3/


Mishappenstance in Conrad: A Closer Look at JML 46.1

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/mishappenstance-in-conrad-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-1/


The Nabokov Archive and the Unconscious: A Closer Look at JML 39.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/the-nabokov-archive-and-the-unconscious-a-closer-look-at-jml-394/


On E.M. Forster’s doubt, and my own: A Closer Look at JML 45.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/on-e-m-forsters-doubt-and-my-own-a-closer-look-at-jml-45-2/


On Illumination and the Politics of Buddhism in ‘Heart of Darkness’: A Closer Look at JML 40.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/on-illumination-and-the-politics-of-buddhism-in-heart-of-darkness-a-closer-look-at-jml-402/


Pets’ Inner Lives: A Closer Look at JML 45.1

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/petsinnerlives/


Poetry “By the Eye”—A Closer Look at JML 43.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/poetry-by-the-eye-a-closer-look-at-jml-43-4


Political Oppression and Retribution Rape: A Closer Look at JML 39.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/political-oppression-and-retribution-rape-a-closer-look-at-jml-394/


Pot Thoughts: A Closer Look at JML 40.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/pot-thoughts-a-closer-look-at-jml-404/


Queering Wyndham Lewis’s “Homophobia”: A Closer Look at JML 40.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/queering-wyndham-lewiss-homophobia-a-closer-look-at-jml-403/


Ray Bradbury’s Anti-racism: A Closer Look at JML 44.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/ray-bradbury/


Refocusing Inter-American Studies: A Closer Look at JML 41.1

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/refocusing-inter-american-studies-a-closer-look-at-jml-411/


Resurrecting a Feminist Colette: A Closer Look at JML 41.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/resurrecting-a-feminist-colette-a-closer-look-at-jml-414/


Revisiting Amy Lowell, the Rival Imagist: A Closer Look at JML 40.2

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/revisiting-amy-lowell-the-rival-imagist-a-closer-look-at-jml-402/


“That New Free Woman with Novel Inside”: A Closer Look at JML 39.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/that-new-free-woman-with-novel-inside-a-closer-look-at-jml-394/


Turbulent Democracy: A Closer Look at JML 43.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/turbulent-democracy/


Virginia Woolf and the Art and Politics of Conversation: A Closer Look at JML 40.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/virginia-woolf-and-the-art-and-politics-of-conversation-a-closer-look-at-jml-403/


Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Love Story? [JML 45.1]

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/lovestory/


Why I Wrote “‘The Secrets of Blood and Seed’: Primo Levi’s Poetic Emergence”: A Closer Look at JML 41.3

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/why-i-wrote-the-secrets-of-blood-and-seed-primo-levis-poetic-emergence-a-closer-look-at-jml-413/


Woolf's The Waves and tormented public-school boys: A Closer Look at JML 46.4

https://iupress.org/connect/blog/woolfs-the-waves-and-tormented-public-school-boys-a-closer-look-at-jml-46-4/


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