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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.

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Monday, March 30, 2026

NEW ISSUE: JML 49.2, “Bodies, Subjectivities, and States of Queer Abundance”



JML 49.2 (Winter 2026), edited by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, on the theme “Bodies, Subjectivities, and States of Queer Abundance” is now live on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56630.

Content includes:

Nir Evron

Intimate Strangers: Regionalism and the Construction of Nonhuman Subjectivities in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Animal Fiction

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Claire Marie Class

X-Rays, Probes, Fingers, and Noses: Empiricism in Rudolph Fisher’s Detective Fiction 


Ian Tan

Narrative Equilibrium and Biopolitical Aesthetic Image in Philip Roth’s Nemesis: Health as Hermeneutical Exchange 


Meindert Peters

No Creature of Habit? Gregor’s Dancing Dis/Abilities in Arthur Pita’s Adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis 


Megan Girdwood

“As if some lovely rose had blossomed for her eyes only”: Virginia Woolf, the Ballets Russes, and Le Spectre de la Rose (1911) 


Jena DiMaggio

Abortion Epistemology: Ambivalence in the Abortion Plot in Modern Literature 


Julyan Oldham

“Preserved Through Childbirth”: Reading Deep in Mrs. Dalloway’s Virginity 


Chris Coffman

H.D.’s Nonbinary Poetics


Daniel Swain

Frank O'Hara Has Collapsed! 


Julia C. Obert

Queering Irish Joy: Seán Hewitt’s Rapture’s Road 


Reviews 

Grant Matthew Jenkins

“This Is Your Brain on Poetry” 


Aaron Stone

How to Do the History of Queer American Literature


Thursday, October 12, 2023

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