OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Novel-A Forum on Fiction is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Women's Writing in the Foreground	6
Introduction: Form and Medium	4
The Racial Failures of Novel Form: Ralph Ellison's Three Days before the Shooting . . .	3
Living on Pea-nuts: Gissing, Fiction, Subsistence	3
Excessive Belief: Transport and Immersion in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction	2
Prehistories of the Present: Conrad, Ngũgĩ, and the Global Historical Novel	2
The Economy of Form: An Introduction	2
On Not Belonging	1
A Swamp in Name Only: Imagined Geography, Abandonment, and the Archive in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece	1
“Lusting after Relevance”: The Allegorical Import of the African American Novel	1
Beyond Isabel Archer's Door: The Underground Railroad and the Condemned Plot for Freedom	1
Believing in Novels: Hoax, Hocus, and the Fictionality of the Gothic	1
Ride-Sharing with Little Nell: The Gig Economy of Charles Dickens'sThe Old Curiosity Shop	1
Henry James, Minny Temple, and the “Demon of the Why, Whence, and Whither”	1
“Too Much Arunning and Awalking”: Sites of Revelation in Anna Burns's Milkman	1
The Edges of Fiction: Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and the Birth of Novel Theory	1
Strange Forms	0
A Literary History of the American Smart Home	0
Objective Eventfulness	0
Latin American Fiction and the Politics of the Present	0
The End of the City and the Coming of the Urban: Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris	0
Trollope's Boxes: Liberal Privacy and Its Consequences in Phineas Finn and The Eustace Diamonds	0
To the Victor Go the Potatoes	0
We Might Be Giants: Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs and the Space of the Protagonist in New Media	0
When We Were Humans: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Aloning	0

Walter Scott's Loose Leaves: Books, Scraps, and Dispersive Reading	0
Notes on the Novella	0
A Sublime Fantasy: Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby and Populist Desire	0
In Praise of Happy Endings: Precarity, Sustainability, and the Novel	0
The Body of the Critic at Desk, Walking	0
Document Style and Fictional Minds After Modernism	0
Late Enough	0
“Too Domestic to Admit of Calculation”: Jane Austen and Narrative Economics	0
The Activist Novel: Pastoral Political Mediations in England and Aotearoa New Zealand	0
The Novel and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery: Domesticity and Slave Labor in Namık Kemal's İntibah	0
On Fiction by Opinion Writers	0
The Ballot or the Blue Book	0
Thinking Contingently	0
Constructing Attachment: Persistent and Elided Speech in Jane Austen's Novels	0
Conrad, Lawrence, and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre	0
The Plot of Racial Data and George Schuyler's Black No More	0
Reading Literature within the Educational Apparatus	0
The Scarcities ofUdolpho	0
Modernism, Finance, Value, Form	0
Emma's Choices: Economics and Modern Narratives of Decision-Making	0
The Art of Losing	0
Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition: The “Wrong Body” Problem, the Taboo on Translocation, and the Case of Henry James	0
Suspicious Methods	0
Typical Roundness: Fictional Character and the Culture Concept in Howards End	0
Capital Fictions in the Age of Fictitious Capital	0
The Forms of Disavowal	0
Ticket to a Museum: Reading Orhan Pamuk in Our Times	0
Beckett's Big House:Watt, Waste, and the Fiction of Irish Autonomy	0
Recovering Character's Science	0
“Am I Being Paranoid?”	0
Contre Proust . . . ?	0
The Institutionalist	0
Economic Ecosystems and Postcapitalist Futures in The Professor's House	0
“Things Can Always Be Otherwise”: Believing (in) Twenty-First-Century Fiction	0
Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Problem of Cultural Anxiety	0
Possible Futures	0
Containing Hoards	0
The Art of Naturalization	0
Unredeemed	0
Seeing the Chapter	0
Reading (in) Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear (1943)	0
Post-Victorianism in the Balance	0
The Prosaics of Weak Grammar: Novel Theory at the Crossroads of Linguistic Transformation	0
Carl Schmitt in Outer Space: On Cixin Liu's “Dark Forest”	0
The Inside Story: Body Language and Free Indirect Discourse in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko	0
Insurgent Talk in Late Imperial Literature	0
George Sand, Antisex Feminist	0
Only Noticed When It Fails	0
Desire and Democracy	0
Materializing Metafiction: Embedded Media and Embodied Reading in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being	0

Troubling Immediacy in Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards	0
Typicality in the Novel and Novel Theory	0
Genre and Futurity in the Historical Novel: Georg Lukács with Sylvia Townsend Warner	0
The End of the World as We Know It	0
The Privilege of Art	0
How to Read The Pentagon Papers	0
From Alienation to Fictionality: Writing Depersonalization as High Modernism Turns Late	0
Looking Awry in Timothy Mo	0
Inhuman Character	0
Making Meaning Meaningful: Intertextuality and Identification in Never Let Me Go and Daniel Deronda	0
World Theory as Reading Method	0
Whatever Happened to Interracial Literature?	0
Literary Realignment	0
Torture, Imperial Citizenship, and Embodied Reading	0
Detox, Binge, Filter, Ghost	0
Contemporary Transnational Historical Fiction: Forging Solidarities in the Global South Novel	0
“If It No Go So, It Go Near So”: Marlon James and Collective Memory	0
Open-Circuit Narrative: Programmed Reading in Richard Powers	0
Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy and the So-Called Secret of the Historical Novel	0
Colonial Power and the Law against Feeling	0
The Novel's Cybernetic Hypothesis: Coetzee and McCarthy in the Closed World	0
Reading Angles	0
Revitalizing the National-Popular	0
Why Always That Dorothea? Realism and the Rise of Meaning	0
Fossil Hunts and Fuel Exhaustion in Late Victorian Fiction	0
What Does Reading Do in the Anthropocene?	0
The Missing Matter of Revolution: Hydroelectricity and the Terrain of Postcolonial Politics	0
Generic Gayness: Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and a Not-So-Grand Theory of the Gay Novel	0
Post-extraction Possibility: Genre and Landscape in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss	0
Freudian Friction	0
Mental Reflexes	0
Narrative, Time, and Disaster	0
Colson Whitehead's Paranoid Styles	0
The Arts of War	0
Literary Value and the Prizewinning African Novel	0
More Than Human	0
Governmentality on the Road	0
Anthony Trollope's Formal Experiment: Repetition and the Anti-romantic Marriage Plot	0
Enduring Police	0
True Pleasure	0
Scenario Fiction and the Novel Claims of Insurance	0
Hogarth's Networks and the Eighteenth-Century “Graphic” Novel	0
Amitav Ghosh's Historical Genre Fictions	0
Server the Servants	0
The Will to Power	0
Small-Scale Institutions in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel	0
Romancing the State	0
From the Papers of a Formalist Critic: Kierkegaard's Theory of the Novel	0
“She Knew She Ought to Be Happy”: Socialized Subjects in Emma	0
Faulkner's Glitches	0
Minor Action in a Burning World	0
The Hero of This Novel Is a Tree: Biocentric Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Eco-fiction	0
Victorians, Digitized	0
Period, Break, Form	0
Proust and the Powers of Language	0
Print Internationalism's Uneasy Adjacencies	0
“A Look She Cannot Read”: Novelistic Epistemology Between Genre and Narrative Mode in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song	0
Ideas in and out of the Novel	0
Always Be Prepared	0
A Settler-Colonial Genealogy of Modernism: Albert Camus and the Aesthetics of Elimination	0
Late Jameson	0
Describe and Narrate	0
The Suspension of Disbelief, Again	0
Finding the Center:Mrs Dalloway's Bureaucrats and State Centralization	0
Prosthetic Grand Synthesis	0
A Book History of the Novel	0
In Default of Providence: Tragedy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles	0
Introduction: Belief and Disbelief After Secularization	0
Misrecognizing Capital	0
The Racial Economy of Perception: Reading Black Sociality in the Nineteenth Century	0
Speculating on Empty Time	0