JML 47.4 (Summer 2024) is now LIVE!

 

JML 47.4 (Summer 2024) with clusters on Virginia Woolf and literary misfits is now LIVE on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53384

Content includes:

Woolf

Kate M. Nash

The Ecology of Virginia Woolf’s London Scene

 

Gabriel Quigley

Moments of Rupture: Woolf, Whitehead, Deleuze 

Timothy O’Leary

Years and Years: The Distribution of the Sensible in Woolf and Ernaux 

Misfits

Abhipsa Chakraborty

Vernacular Acoustics: Caste, Embodiment, and the Politics of Listening in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935)

Carly Overfelt 

“To Suggest the Sound”: Impressibility and the Language of Whiteness in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Long Fiction 

Lillianna G. Wright

“A Fascination, Strange and Compelling”: Marriage as the Prevention of Queerness in Nella Larsen’s Passing 

Ryan James McGuckin 

E. M. Forster’s Female Musicality: Inconclusive Counter-romance in A Room with a View 

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Tim Clarke

The Consolations of Decadence in John Fante’s Ask the Dust 

Susan Poursanati and Maryam Neyestani

Sisyphean or Medusan: The Absurd Hero in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea  

Reviews  

Anna Nygren

Rewriting the Narrative of Modernisms 

Andrew Hui

The Once and Always Baroque

Benjamin Schreier

How to Be a Critic

Afterword

Daniel T. O’Hara

Memorial Tributes

BOOK NEWS: New critical edition of Larsen's Passing

Passing by Nella Larsen

EDITED BY RAFAEL WALKER

Broadview Press, 2023

ISBN: 9781554815159

https://broadviewpress.com/product/passing/#tab-description

Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance (the first sustained artistic movement by African Americans) and of Jim Crow (one of this cultural group’s greatest obstacles), Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing is easily among the most penetrating, skillfully composed explorations of race and gender in the twentieth century. It focuses on two estranged friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, who, after years apart, are joltingly thrown back together, their lives transformed radically through one of the most scandalous and intriguing social phenomena of Larsen’s time—racial passing. Today, Larsen is ranked as one of the leading novelists of her generation; this novel, her masterpiece, demonstrates why.

BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in modernist and contemporary literary studies. These announcements do NOT constitute an endorsement by the Journal of Modern Literature.

Appendices include material on the novel’s composition and reception, as well as legal documents relating to mixed-race individuals and a selection of recent critical work on the novel’s afterlife and the 2021 film adaptation.

“This new edition of Nella Larsen’s now-classic novel, with Rafael Walker’s excellent introduction and chronology, along with relevant reviews and contemporary documents about passing, is the best we have, perfect for classroom use and the general reader alike.” — George Hutchinson, Cornell University, author of In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line

“Rafael Walker’s introduction, along with the edition’s appendices, offers important historical contextualization for Larsen’s life and novels. These materials enhance, rather than cover over, the proliferation of meanings and contradictions that emerge not only from reviews and criticism but also from biographies and accounts that detail the archival fragments of who Larsen was. Nella Larsen was a formidable novelist and social figure of the Harlem Renaissance, but Walker creates a pathway for students and educators alike to confidently approach the magnitude of her being.” — Haylee Harrell, University of Houston

Rafael Walker is assistant professor of English, Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the editor of The Awakening and Selected Stories (Warbler Classics).

JML 46.4 (Summer 2023) is now LIVE!

JML 46.4 (Summer 2023), "Evocations of Intimacy," is now LIVE on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51258

Content includes:

Anca Parvulescu

The Biography of a Face: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Patty Argyrides

Hauntingly Beautiful: Embodied Reading, Virginia Woolf, and Woolf Works 

Patricia Morgne Cramer

“Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion”: The Waves as a Modernist Symposium 

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Cory Austin Knudson

Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille

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Farah Ali

The Invisible Flesh: Mimesis in Jean Genet’s The Maids

Molly B. Lewis

The Life-Giving Efficacy of Beauty and Desire in Stoppard’s Drama 

Sina Movaghati

A Beast to Be Slain: The Tiger and the Unquenched Desire of Man

Yi-chin Shih

Senses of Place: The Black Community in Alice Childress’s Wedding Band

Hsiao-wen Chen

Black Cosmofeminism: Commodity, Sexuality, and the Transnational Mixed-Race Subject in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand

Celiese Lypka

“I Look Straight into His Eyes … For the Last Time”: Intimacy and Indifference in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight 

Reviews

Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

Imagining Justice for Sentient Lives 

Caroline Hovanec 

The Modernist Dog