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2024

Klem James, "Particules Flottantes: Mutable Identity and Postmodern “Schizophrenia” in the Works of Michel Houellebecq." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, Winter 2024, pp. 17-36.

Daniel R. Adler, "Making Visible the 'Mental Wreckage': A Historical Materialist Reading of Milkman." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 2, Winter 2024, pp. 133-45.

2023

Sam Walker, "'[S]ongs of allusion': Sterling Brown, Harryette Mullen, and the Roots of Poetic Recycling." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 1, Fall 2023, pp. 118-135.

Patricia Morgne Cramer, "'Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion': The Waves as a Modernist Symposium." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 4, Summer 2023, pp. 43-62.

Cory Austin Knudson, "Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 4, Summer 2023, pp. 63-80.

Coogan, Sarah. “‘I am other I now’: Identity, Intertextuality, and Networks of Debt in Ulysses.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, Spring 2023, pp. 97-116.

Ionica, Cristina. “‘For the Sake of Harmony’: Beckett’s Enactment of the Violence of Abstraction in The Lost Ones” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, Spring 2023, pp. 147-165.

Ng, Lynda, and Paul Sheehan. "Introduction: Caring to Survive." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 2, Winter 2023, pp. 1-9.

Allan Hepburn. "'To Come into the Story as Late as Possible, and To Tell It as Fast as You Can': Pace in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 2, Winter 2023, pp. 157-173.

2022

Dwan, David. "Unlucky Jim: Conrad, Chance, Ethics." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Fall 2022, pp. 1-17.

Farrell, Susan. "American Fascism and the Historical Underpinnings of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Fall 2022, pp. 141-157.

Heim, Stefania. “‘I for i and i for I’: Susan Howe’s That This and the Relational Self.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 4, Summer 2022, pp. 130-47.

Murray, Rachel. "Things that Cling: Marine Attachments in Eliot." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Spring 2022, pp. 21-38. Free access expires 31 Dec 2022

Yusin, Jennifer. "Editorial Changes." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Spring 2022, pp. 1-2.

Gaubinger, Rachel. "The 'Voiceless Language' of Sisters: Queer Possibility in E.M. Forster's Howards End." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 2, Winter 2022, pp. 52-68.

2021

Banin, Tali. "Winged Creatures of The Waves and Woolf's Figuration of 'The One'," Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Fall 2021, pp. 56-73.

McRae, Calista. "'More human than others': Stevie Smith and the Inner Lives of Pets." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Fall 2021, pp. 1-20.

Ellerhoff, Steve Gronert. “White Supremacy and the Multicultural Imagination in Ray Bradbury's Afrofuturist Stories of Mars.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 4, Summer 2021, pp. 1-18.

Harris, Laurel. “Impassagenwerk: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction and the Modernist Impasse.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, Spring 2021, pp. 19-34.

Grech, Marija. “Re-Visions of the End: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Post-Literary.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, Spring 2021, pp. 146-63.

2020

Bak, John S. “Tennessee Williams’s ‘“Homage to Ophelia” (A Pretentious Foreword)’ with Commentary,”  Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 1, Fall 2020, pp. 36-58.

Williamson, Andrew. "Pound 're/ sound.'" Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 4, Summer 2020, pp. 1-17.

Lim, Jerome J.H. “Recurrence and Remembrance: Reading J.H. Prynne's ‘Reach Up’ and ‘Morning’ from Al-Dente (2014).” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 4, Summer 2020, pp 127-147.

McKelvey, Seth. "Unstate: Disarticulating State Knowledge and Joan Didion’s Democracy." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 3, Spring 2020, pp. 116-131.

Parkinson, Isabelle. "Democrat or 'imbecile'? Gertrude Stein’s Useful Knowledge and Discourses of Intellectual Disability in the To-day and To-morrow Pamphlet Series." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 3, Spring 2020, pp. 1-18.

Otjen, Nathaniel. "Energy Anxiety and Fossil Fuel Modernity in H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, Winter 2020, pp. 118-133.

2019

Spoo, Robert." Judge Woolsey's Ulysses Opinion: Early Print History and Reader Response." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 1, Fall 2019, pp. 53-70.

Winner, Kathryn. "Visions of Cody and Media: Jack Kerouac as a Late Modernist." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 43, no. 1, Fall 2019, pp. 132-49.

Chan, Julia. "Brave New Worlds of Birth Control: Women's Travel in Soviet Russia and Naomi Michison's We Have Been Warned." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter 2019, pp. 38-56.

O'Brien, Valerie. “‘A Genius for Unreality’: Neurodiversity in Elizabeth Bowen's Eva Trout.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter 2019, pp. 75-93.

2018

Barrett, Laura. “‘[R]adiance in dailiness’: The Uncanny Ordinary in Don DeLillo's Zero K.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 42, no. 1, Fall 2018, pp. 106-23.

Lee, Derek. “Dark Romantic: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Specters of Gothic Modernism.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 4, Summer 2018, pp. 125-42.

Antonioli, Kathleen. “How Colette Became a Feminist: Selling Colette in the United States 1960–1985.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 4, Summer 2018, pp. 68-83.

Estrin, Barbara. “The Secrets of Blood and Seed”: Primo Levi's Poetic Emergence.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring 2018, pp. 43-59.

Brunton, James.  “Whose (Meta)modernism?: Metamodernism, Race, and the Politics of Failure.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring 2018, pp. 60-76.

Scully, Matthew. “Plasticity at the Violet Hour: Tiresias, The Waste Land, and Poetic Form.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 3, Spring 2018, pp. 166-182.

Arnett, James. “What’s Left of Feelings? The Affective Labor of Politics in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 2, Winter 2018, pp. 77-95.

Renggli, Gabriel. “Specters of Totality: Reading and Uncertainty in Joyce’s Ulysses and Borges’s Fictions.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 2, Winter 2018, pp. 42-59.

2017

Anderson, Vaughn. “‘Revision of the Golden Rule’: John Cage, Latin America, and the Poetics of Non-Interventionism.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 1, Fall 2017, pp. 58-80.

Freedman, Ariela. “Charlotte Salomon, Degenerate Art, and Modernism as Resistance.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 41, no. 1, Fall 2017, pp. 3-18.

Simpson, Hannah. “Strange laughter”: Post-Gothic Questions of Laughter and the Human in Samuel Beckett's Work.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 40, no. 4, Summer 2017, pp. 1-19.

Dukes, Hunter. “Beckett's Vessels and the Animation of Containers,” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 40, no. 4, Summer 2017, pp. 75-89.