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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW ISSUE! Journal of Modern Literature 49.4 (Summer 2026), "Ecocriticism / Anti-Imperialism," edited by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is now live on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57714 #ecocriticism #anti-imperialism #AcademicSky #literature

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BOOK NEWS: How modernist writers reading faces reconfigured physiognomy *Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism* by Anca Parvulescu Ebook available as Open Access from @universitypress.cambridge.org journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/09/book...

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BOOK NEWS: How modernist writers reading faces reconfigured physiognomy

Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism By Anca Parvulescu Cambridge UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781009599801 Open Access ebook https://www.cam...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Subscribe to Journal of Modern Literature! Individual rates per year (four issues) are: Electronic/$54.60; Print/$63.55; Print and Electronic/$69.90. Order at www.press.jhu.edu/journals/car... For subscribers outside the US, call our distribution partner at 410-516-6987 (M-F 8:30-4:30 Eastern)

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

BOOK NEWS Examining anachronism in contemporary comics *The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics* By Matthew Levay #comics #AcademicSky journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/08/book...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Matthew Holman reviews *Frank O’Hara’s New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism: Perfectly Disgraceful* by Sam Ladkin Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #FrankOHara #Mannerism #poetry #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Arka Chattopadhyay reviews *The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame* by Sigi Jöttkandt Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #Nabokov #filmicfiction #books #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ira Nadel reviews *Ellmann’s Joyce, The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker* by Zachary Leader Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #JamesJoyce #biography #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Phillip Masterman Broadbent explores how Yoko Tawada's protagonist uses the films of Catherine Deneuve to create a subjectivity that subverts the European Orientalist gaze Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #fiction #Asianlit #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Carra Glatt examines the ways Donna Tartt's *The Goldfinch* plays with the conventions of Victorian fiction Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #contemporaryliterature #fiction #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Thomas Gould examines how Claudia Rankine and Rachel Cusk, through ordinary conversations, reveal the mechanisms by which whiteness is constructed Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #racialpolitics #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Andrew Koenig explores how *Elizabeth Costello* evinces Coetzee's refusal to “write back” and lost faith in postcolonial rewriting Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #postcoloniallit #Coetzee

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Joseph LaBine traces the echoes of Joyce and Lawrence in “Gabriel the chauffeur” of Sebald’s “Ambros Adelwarth” Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #JamesJoyce #DHLawrence #Sebald

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Nathan Wallace unpacks Stephen Dedalus’s “Parable of the Plums” in the “Aeolus” episode of *Ulysses*, tracing the effects of allusions to Dante's Paradiso 31. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #JamesJoyce #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Florian Gargallio shows how William Carlos Williams critiques national myths via Daniel Boone as a symbol of the inherent violence of frontier exploration Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #poetry #history #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Yuli Pan demonstrates how Woolf’s intermedial approach to Greek ritual in *Between the Acts* anticipates the postdramatic Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #Woolf #theaterfiction #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Carolina Iribarren analyzes the many communication breakdowns that appear throughout Woolf's fiction, which exemplify the modernist pull between social critique and utopian vision Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #Woolf #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jonathan Foster explores how Virginia Woolf decenters and undermines state power in *Mrs. Dalloway* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #Woolf #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jean-Michel Rabaté explains the history of "long modernism," the organizing theme of issue 49.3. Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #literature #modernism #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

NEW ISSUE! Journal of Modern Literature 49.3 (Spring 2026), on the theme "Long Modernisms," edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté, is now LIVE on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57113 #AcademicSky #literarystudies #modernism

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Aaron Stone reviews *The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature* edited by Benjamin Kahan Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #AcademicSky #literaryhistory #LGBTQIA+

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Grant Matthew Jenkins reviews *Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems* by Jessica Lewis Luck Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #poetics

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Julia C. Obert examines how Seán Hewitt’s poetry centers queer joy Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth #Irishliterature #LGBT

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Daniel Swain demonstrates how Frank O’Hara’s poetics explore the erotics of class desire Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #AcademicSky

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Chris Coffman argues that H.D.’s poem "The Master" inscribes non-binary subjectivities Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Julyan Oldham considers why Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is considered virginal despite her marriage and daughter Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Jena DiMaggio argues that the ambivalence about abortion in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" reveals the limitations of political rhetorical frameworks Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Megan Girdwood demonstrates how *Le Spectre de la Rose* operates as a model for Woolf’s balletic imaginary and her evocation of pre-war social rituals in *Jacob’s Room*, *Mrs. Dalloway*, and *The Years* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Meindert Peters examines how Arthur Pita’s ballet adaptation of Kafka’s *The Metamorphosis* highlights both corporeal creativity and disability in Gregor's transformation Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Ian Tan explores healing potentialities of narrative in Philip Roth's polio patients story, *Nemesis* Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

SPECIAL FEATURE In a post for the Indiana University Press blog, author Nir Evron discusses how regionalist writers depict animals as individualized beings with distinctive experiences and inner lives that demand recognition and interpretation. iupress.org/connect/blog...

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A Closer Look at JML 49.2: What Happens When Regionalism Takes Animals Seriously? - Indiana University Press

By Nir Evron, author of “Intimate Strangers: Regionalism and the Construction of Nonhuman Subjectivities in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Animal Fiction,”

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