NEW ISSUE: JML 49.3 (Spring 2026) "Long Modernisms" is now LIVE

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 

SPECIAL FEATURE: W.G. Sebald and the Wars in Yugoslavia, A Closer Look at JML 48.4

 

Denis Topalović, in his blog post for Indiana University Press Journals on W. G. Sebald, notes that "When he was once asked what compelled him to write The Rings of Saturn, Sebald didn’t look back to the past; instead, he turned to his own present, and in particular to the Yugoslav Wars (1991-99) that had broken out just as he was beginning to work on his book."

Read the full post HERE.

His Journal of Modern Literature essay on Sebald's The Rings of Saturn is available FREE, linked in the post

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

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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

JML 48.1 (Fall 2024) on Stein and Continental Modernism, is now LIVE!

 

JML 48.1 (Fall 2024), with clusters on Gertrude Stein and Continental Modernism, is now live on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54157

Content Includes:

Editorial News: Welcome New Co-Editor Jessica Burstein

Stein

Rei Asaba

“You Ain’t Ever Got Any Way to Remember Right”: Black Affectivity, Insistent Style, and Cross-Racial Transference in Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha” 

Nicole Gantz

Becoming a Minor Literature: Supposing in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons 

Kelly Krumrie

“Not Unordered”: Gertrude Stein’s Numbers

Chris Raczkowski

“The Man Being Dead”: Stein, Modernism and Detective Stories 

Continental Modernism

Thomas Waller

Confessional Desire: Censorship and Repression in Mário de Sá-Carneiro’s A Confissão de Lúcio 

Fredrik Tydal

“A Man Without Scruples”: The Swedish Judgment of Jay Gatsby 

Edward Waysband

The Politics of Childhood in Vladislav Khodasevich’s “Infancy” 

James Martell 

Modernism’s Totalities: From the Marquis de Sade to Titus-Carmel 

Feng Dong 

Overcoming Gravity: Celan, Nietzsche, and Nihilism

Ken R. Hanssen

W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and the Problems of Representation 

Reviews

Philipp Wolf

Mimesis: A Protean Concept

Amalia Cotoi

How Philosophy Turns up Its Nose at Smell: A Review of Simon Hajdini’s What’s That Smell? A Philosophy of the Olfactory 

JML 46.1 (Fall 2022) "Literary Ethics, Literary History" is LIVE!

JML 46.1 (Fall 2022) on the theme "Literary Ethics, Literary History" is now available on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48859

Content includes:

David Dwan 

Unlucky Jim: Conrad, Chance, Ethics

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Shea Hennum 

Reading Borges Ethically

Aubrey Lively 

Ye Shall Bear Witness: An Ethics of Survival in W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn 

Maggie Laurel Boyd 

Ordinary Language for Extraordinary Loss

Jack Dudley 

The Secularizing Work of the Novel: Modernist Form and Ian McEwan’s Saturday 

Heather Clark 

The Voice Within: Sylvia Plath’s Juvenilia, 1947-1950 

Johan Adam Warodell 

Reading Conrad’s Unpublished Trilogy: “Youth,” Heart of Darkness, and Lord Jim

Howard Fisher 

The Emergence of Resemblances between People: Stein’s Diagrams in The Making of Americans 

Susan Farrell 

American Fascism and the Historical Underpinnings of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night 

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Walter Kalaidjian 

Occult Surrealism as “Profane Illumination”: Mina Loy, Leonora Carrington, and Ithell Colquhoun

Reviews

Christopher GoGwilt 

“Going Dead Slow”: Joseph Conrad’s Writing the Now, a review of Yael Levin, Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism 

John Zilcosky 

Kafka, or What Does Literature Sound Like? 

Ashley Byczkowski 

Derridean Deconstruction and Modernist Writer-Sons

Ali AlYousefi 

Revitalizing Close Reading

JML 45.3 (Spring 2022) is LIVE!

JML 45.3 (Spring 2022) on the theme "New Materialisms" is now live on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48204

 

Content includes:

Jennifer Yusin

Editorial Changes

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Marit Grøtta

Showing Seeing: The Study of Faces and Portrait Photographs in Virginia Woolf’s Early Novels 

Rachel Murray

Things that Cling: Marine Attachments in Eliot 

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Emma Felin

Faith and Fabrication in To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf’s Table-Cloth(s)

Olga Zolotareva

The Image Responds: Photographic Aura in Aleksandr Ivanov’s “Stereoscope” 

Matt Prout

Art or Shit: Value, Sincerity, and the Avant-garde in David Foster Wallace 

Zackary Vernon

Faulkner’s Charismatic Megaflora: Critical Plant Studies and the US South

Quan Zhou and Qiping Liu

Agentic Things and Traumatized People in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Aaron McCullough

Sheaths, Molds, and Shards: The Formation of an Anthropological Aesthetics in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark

Alyson Brickey

“Fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth”: Object-Oriented Lists in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 

James Draney

W.G. Sebald’s Paper Universe: Austerlitz and the Poetics of Media Obsolescence 

Reviews

Zachary Kinsella

Becoming Bewildered

Tim Clarke

Modernist Women’s Writing and the Gift of Literature 

Karina Jakubowicz

From Waste Lands to Farmhands: T.S. Eliot and the Organic Husbandry Movement 

Jeffrey Careyva

The Evanescence of Lyric: A Review of John Wilkinson’s Lyric in Its Times: Temporalities in Verse, Breath, and Stone