MFS-Modern Fiction Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of MFS-Modern Fiction Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)10
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography4
Anxiety and Community: Clune on Judgment3
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically3
Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)3
Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)2
Contributors2
Translation, Poetics of Instability, and the Postmonolingual Condition in Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words2
"Letting Oneself Matter": The Dangers of Skepticism in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians2
William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity by Jay Watson (review)2
Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf1
Contributors1
Numbered Erotics: Quantified Sexualities and Enumerative Aesthetics in Nightwood and The Young and Evil1
Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema by Patrick O’Donnell (review)1
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang (review)1
Judgment and Its Publics1
Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend1
The Music of the Prose Takes Place in Silence: Sound, Fury, and Faulkner's Negative Audition1
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives by Leah A. Milne (review)1
Questions of Judgment1
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (review)0
Unwinding Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift0
Modernist Parody: Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature by Sarah Davison (review)0
Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)0
Narrative Surveillance and Omniscience: Traces of Historiographic Metafiction in Nabokov's Work0
Editor’s Note0
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (review)0
Imperium Hibernicum? Finnegans Wake and the Pacific0
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson (review)0
Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty0
Marcel Proust: Kinesic Styles and Consciousness as Interaction0
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten (review)0
Ecologies from the Cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the Long Anthropocene0
Metaphysical Exile: On J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin0
"An Unknown Tongue": God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris0
Aesthetic Judgment: A Pragmatic View0
American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent by Jordan Carson0
Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice by Ina C. Seethaler (review)0
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)0
Dark Words: Blackness in Pale Fire0
Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky (review)0
Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century by Pallavi Rastogi0
Technologies of Uplift: Race and Beauty in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep0
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (review)0
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe (review)0
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli (review)0
In Defense of the Freaky Stuff: The Ecological Potential of Iterative Storytelling0
Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying0
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)0
Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy (review)0
Women Thinking in Public: An Introduction0
Neoliberalism, Critique, and the Contemporary Novel: Tom McCarthy and Theory Fiction0
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature by Morgane Cadieu (review)0
“Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)0
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom by Lawrie Balfour (review)0
The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century by Patrick R. O'Malley (review)0
American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark (review)0
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell (review)0
The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing 's Worlding of China0
Contributors0
Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (review)0
Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)0
"Save America From Itself": Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn0
Olfactory Ecologies: Investigating Oil’s Smelly Residues in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep0
Nature Prose: Writing in Ecological Crisis by Dominic Head (review)0
The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears0
Memory as Seriality: Re-cognizing Gertrude Stein0
The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW0
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin (review)0
Cognitive Modernisms: An Introduction0
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts0
History, Cognition and Nostromo: Conrad’s Explorations of Torture, Trauma, and the Human Rage for Order0
Narrative Scarring in The Underground Railroad0
Contributors0
Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas by Ellen Jones (review)0
Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay0
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida (review)0
A Change of Heart: What It’s Like to Live in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich0
The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womack (review)0
Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li (review)0
Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez (review)0
Theorizing Gender, Crime Fiction, and the State: The Case of Dorothy B. Hughes’s The Blackbirder0
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)0
Miracle Drug: Therapeutic Fantasies for Pandemic Times0
Prescient Plague Fiction: How Science Fiction Anticipates Corporate Pandemic Profiteering0
Introduction: We Didn't Know, and Other Fictions0
“In Full Holocaust”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity0
Drawing In The Time Of: One Seed Sprouted Another0
Shared Unshareability, Suicidality, and the Melodrama of Living on after Failure in Yiyun Li0
Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm (review)0
The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights0
Contributors0
2024 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist0
On Jacob's Room : The Figure and Ground of Protest0
Mistakes Were Made: Overthinking and the Contemporary Woman Writer0
The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions0
A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes0
Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee0
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas0
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Mark Christian Thompson (review)0
Global Weirding and Paranoid Worlding in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange0
Metaphorized (Not Real) Lives in Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love0
Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness0
Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London by Elizabeth F. Evans0
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History by Amy Gore (review)0
Philip Roth's Jewish Debility0
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)0
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy (review)0
Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction by Jason R. Marley (review)0
English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust0
Contributors0
Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep0
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah0
Contributors0
Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs0
Judgment Takes Care of Itself0
The Place of Judgment in the Conversation: A Reply to Michael W. Clune0
Crafting Feminism: From Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present by Amy E. Elkins (review)0
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich (review)0
Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory by Victoria Aarons0
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring (review)0
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Stephen Ross (review)0
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return by Patricia Chu0
Gerald Murnane’s Terra Nullius0
Antoinette Cosway’s Martyrdom: Catholicism and the “Triumphant” Ending of Wide Sargasso Sea0
Contemplating "Queerness" in Anglo-American Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Children's Books: The Case of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden0
Silence and Speaking in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness0
The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. Kalliney (review)0
Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams , The Home-Maker , and The Professor’s House0
Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)0
Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (review)0
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)0
Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present by David F. Eisler (review)0
How Day Novels Work: Temporal Economy in A Day Off and Party Going0
Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg0
Global Modernism’s Networks: Mulk Raj Anand, Sajjad Zaheer, and a Case for Negative Ties0
"People with Equal but Opposite Afflictions, Propping Each Other Up": Sleep Solidarity and Fictions of Mass Sleeplessness0
"The Circle Stands before You": Reincarnation and Traumatic Memory in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata0
Darl’s Bucket, Cash’s Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying0
Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity by Takeo Rivera (review)0
Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)0
Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers , and Professional Vocation0
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature by Florian Fuchs (review)0
Toward an Epistemology of Literary Judgment0
Contributors0
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)0
"One way of looking at it": Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods0
The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway0
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Deixis and Dissociation: On the Adaptive Power of Dissociated “I”s0
Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)0
The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy by Margaret Cohen (review)0
2022 Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize0
"You Have Fiscal Ebola": The Privatization of Risk in Jess Walter's The Financial Lives of the Poets0
Elizabeth Bowen’s Grammar of Waning Empire0
Contributors0
Cather and Opera by David McKay Powell (review)0
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel (review)0
Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines (review)0
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)0
Plotting Pandemic Fiction0
Introduction: Critical Intervals0
“Gazing at the View”: The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando0
Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Arielle Zibrak (review)0
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (review)0
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck (review)0
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto (review)0
The Kinesthetic Turn: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Machinery of Dance Modernism0
Conceptualizing Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland0
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall (review)0
"What was failure? What was success?": The Impostor Syndrome's Literary Transformations0
Muriel Spark’s Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form by James Bailey (review)0
Queer Mrs. Ramsay, or Virginia Woolf's Geomorphic Family0
Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig0
Alone Together: Connecting through Estrangement in the Black British Novel0
Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel0
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Un-making of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America by Korey Garibaldi (review)0
Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner's Most Splendid Creative Leap by Frédérique Spill (review)0
From Tiananmen to COVID: Diasporic Witnessing and Metanarratives of Crisis0
Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Culture, and Difference in Midcentury US Modernism0
"I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too": Dildonics and Prosthetic Gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden0
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone (review)0
A “Usable Past”: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Fictions of Memory0
"In Some Strange Way Altered": Miasmic Crises and Pandemic Fictions0
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time by David Shackleton (review)0
Cellular Self-Making: Octavia E. Butler, "Childfinder," and the Hypno-Psionic Impulse0
“The God of Small Comforts:” Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series0
The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review)0
Contributors0
The Books on the Bedside Table: Re-Reading "Mother" in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime0
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake (review)0
Contributors0
Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies0
Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)0
Editor’s Note0
The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity by Frida Beckman (review)0
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel by Pardis Dabashi (review)0
1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis0
The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega0
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner0
Diminishing Returns: Henry James, Alice Munro, and the Foreshortened Future0
Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling0
Teaching In The Time Of: Loving What is Not Loved0
Katherine Mansfield, Postimpressionist0
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith (review)0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)0
Trans*-itional Longings of the “Dark Ghetto”: Rosa Guy and a Trans* Black Childhood Studies0
Irvine Welsh, Neoliberalism, and the Lumpenproletariat0
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The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies0
Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation0
A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello0
Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review0
Free Association and Empathy in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant : A Case for Postcritical Psychoanalysis0
Publishing In The Time Of: We're Still Writing the Book of the Pandemic0
"The New Economy and the Old Morality": Reimagining a Liberal Culture in Howards End0
Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark (review)0
Queer Forms by Ramzi Fawaz (review)0
Cather and Catastrophe: Time and Environmental Realism in the Improbable West0
Moving Visions: Matisse’s Odalisques, Sebbar’s Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation0
Introduction to Special Issue on Michael W. Clune’s A Defense of Judgment0
"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock0
Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies by Elizabeth Abel (review)0
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames (review)0
Faulknerista by Catherine Gunther Kodat (review)0
The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending0
"This Grisly Act of Love": Monstrous Heterosexuality in Giovanni's Room0
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1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)0
Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography0
The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth’s Job: The Story of a Simple Man0
"Recalling this": Language and Irony in Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story0
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The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura0
Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack0
What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook0
Judgment all the Way Down0
Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO30
From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph (review)0
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"I Saw and Felt the Class Lines": Class Divides, Forced Sterilization, and Literary Form in Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl0
Gothic Abjection, Intertextuality, and Disloyalty in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover"0
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus (review)0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)0
D. H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective by Ben Stoltzfus (review)0
“Secretly Proustian”: Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway , and In Search of Lost Time0
"A World Full of Doors": Postapocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West0
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally (review)0
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