A Searchable Index

Welcome to the comprehensive, searchable index of Modern Fiction Studies. We have collected the table of contents of every issue of Mfs—from the first one in 1955 through the most recent—and made them available here. If you are looking for articles on a particular subject or author, you can search the index or browse each volume and our list of special issue topics.

All of our issues from 1994 to the present are available online for those who have access to Project MUSE. If you find an article or issue you would like to read that is older than 1994 and/or you do not have access to Project MUSE, Mfs is available at most university libraries, or you can order back issues from our publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Listed Chronologically

Select a Topic Joseph Conrad - 1955 Ernest Hemingway - 1955 Virginia Woolf - 1956 William Faulkner - 1956 Henry James - 1957 Graham Greene - 1957 James Joyce - 1958 Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1958 D. H. Lawrence - 1959 Stephen Crane - 1959 Southern Writers - 1959 Robert Penn Warren - 1960 Thomas Hardy - 1960 F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1961 E. M. Forster - 1961 Franz Kafka - 1962 Herman Melville - 1962 American Realists - 1962 Ford Madox Ford - 1963 Joyce Cary - 1963 Joseph Conrad - 1964 Albert Camus - 1964 John Steinbeck - 1965 Thomas Wolfe - 1965 Henry James - 1966 J. D. Salinger - 1966 William Faulkner - 1967 Lawrence Durrell - 1967 Mark Twain - 1968 Ernest Hemingway - 1968 James Joyce - 1969 Iris Murdoch - 1969 The Modern French Novel - 1970 William Dean Howells - 1970 The Modern German Novel - 1971 Norman Mailer - 1971 Italo Svevo - 1972 Virginia Woolf - 1972 Recent American Fiction - 1973 Jorge Louis Borges - 1973 John Updike - 1974 Experimental Fiction - 1974 George Orwell - 1975 Anniversary Issue - 1975 Jack London - 1976 Modern Canadian Fiction - 1976 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 1977 Theodore Dreiser - 1977 The Modern Novel and the City - 1978 Katherine Mansfield - 1978 Saul Bellow - 1979 Vladimir Nabokov - 1979 Doris Lessing - 1980 John Dos Passos - 1980 Modern New Zealand and Australian Fiction - 1981 Anthony Burgess - 1981 The Modern Short Story - 1982 Women Writers of the American South - 1982 Samuel Beckett - 1983 Detective and Suspense Fiction - 1983 Modern War Fiction - 1984 V. S. Naipaul - 1984 John Fowles - 1985 Sinclair Lewis - 1985 Science and Fantasy Fiction - 1986 Modern Latin American Fiction - 1986 Modern Sports Fiction - 1987 Narrative Theory - 1987 Modern Black Fiction - 1988 Feminism and Modern Fiction - 1988 Narratives of Colonial Resistance - 1989 Feminist Readings of Joyce - 1989 Willa Cather - 1990 Peter Handke / MFS History - 1990 John Updike - 1991 Postcolonial African Fiction - 1991 Virginia Woolf - 1992 The Politics of Modernism - 1992 Fiction on the Indian Subcontinent - 1993 Toni Morrison - 1993 Autobiography, Photography, Narrative - 1994 Postmodern Narratives - 1995 Sexuality and Narrative - 1995 Narrative and History - 1996 Gertrude Stein - 1996 National and Postnational Narratives - 1997 Technocriticism and Hypernarrative - 1997 Contested Spaces in the Caribbean and the Américas - 1998 Modernisms and Modern Wars - 1998 Native American Literature - 1999 Don DeLillo - 1999 South African Fiction after Apartheid - 2000 Gothic and Modernism - 2000 Working-Class Fiction - 2001 Iris Murdoch - 2001 Postmodernism and the Globalization of English - 2002 Queer Fictions of Race - 2002 Fictions of the (Trans)American Imaginary - 2003 Racechange and the Fictions of Identity - 2003 Virginia Woolf - 2004 J. R. R. Tolkien - 2004 Modernism’s Jews / Jewish Modernisms - 2005 Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic - 2005 Toni Morrison - 2006 Graphic Narratve - 2006 Elizabeth Bowen - 2007 Levinas and Narrative - 2008

Listed Alphabetically
Select a Topic American Realists - 1962 Anniversary Issue - 1975 Autobiography, Photography, Narrative - 1994 Beckett, Samuel - 1983 Bellow, Saul - 1979 Borges, Jorges Louis - 1973 Bowen, Elizabeth - 2007 Burgess, Anthony - 1981 Camus, Albert - 1964 Cary, Joyce - 1963 Cather, Willa - 1990 Conrad, Joseph - 1955 Conrad, Joseph - 1964 Contested Spaces in the Caribbean and the Américas - 1998 Crane, Stephen - 1959 DeLillo, Don - 1999 Detective and Suspense Fiction - 1983 Dos Passos, John - 1980 Dostoevsky, Fyodor - 1958 Dreiser, Theodore - 1977 Durrell, Lawrence - 1967 Experimental Fiction - 1974 Faulkner, William - 1956 Faulkner, William - 1967 Feminism and Modern Fiction - 1988 Feminist Readings of Joyce - 1989 Fiction on the Indian Subcontinent - 1993 Fictions of the (Trans)American Imaginary - 2003 Fitzgerald, F. Scott - 1961 Ford, Ford Madox - 1963 Forster, E. M. - 1961 Fowles, John - 1985 Gothic and Modernism - 2000 Graphic Narrative - 2006 Greene, Graham - 1957 Handke, Peter - 1990 Hardy, Thomas - 1960 Hemingway, Ernest - 1955 Hemingway, Ernest - 1968 Howells, William Dean - 1970 James, Henry - 1957 James, Henry - 1966 Joyce, James - 1958 Joyce, James - 1969 Kafka, Franz - 1962 Lawrence, D. H. - 1959 Lessing, Doris - 1980 Lewis, Sinclair - 1985 London, Jack - 1976 Mailer, Norman - 1971 Mansfield, Katherine - 1978 Melville, Herman - 1962 Modern Black Fiction - 1988 Modern Canadian Fiction - 1976 Modern French Novel - 1970 Modern German Novel - 1971 Modern Latin American Fiction - 1986 Modern New Zealand and Australian Fiction - 1981 Modern Novel and the City, The - 1978 Modern Short Story - 1982 Modern Sports Fiction - 1987 Modern War Fiction - 1984 Modernisms and Modern Wars - 1998 Modernism’s Jews / Jewish Modernisms - 2005 Morrison, Toni - 1993 Morisson, Toni - 2006 Murdoch, Iris - 1969 Murdoch, Iris - 2001 Nabokov, Vladimir - 1979 Naipaul, V. S. - 1984 Narrative and History - 1996 Narrative Theory - 1987 Narratives of Colonial Resistance - 1989 National and Postnational Narratives - 1997 Native American Literature - 1999 Orwell, George - 1975 Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic - 2005 Politics of Modernism, The - 1992 Postcolonial African Fiction - 1991 Postmodern Narratives - 1995 Postmodernism and the Globalization of English - 2002 Queer Fictions of Race - 2002 Racechange and the Fictions of Identity - 2003 Recent American Fiction - 1973 Salinger, J. D. - 1966 Science and Fantasy Fiction - 1986 Sexuality and Narrative - 1995 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - 1977 South African Ficiton after Apartheid - 2000 Southern Writers - 1959 Stein, Gertrude - 1996 Steinbeck, John - 1965 Svevo, Italo - 1972 Technocriticism and Hypernarrative - 1997 Tolkien, J. R. R. - 2004 Twain, Mark - 1968 Updike, John - 1974 Updike, John - 1991 Warren, Robert Penn - 1960 Wolfe, Thomas - 1965 Women Writers of the American South - 1982 Woolf, Virginia - 1956 Woolf, Virginia - 1972 Woolf, Virginia - 1992 Woolf, Virginia - 2004 Working-Class Fiction - 2001 Levinas and Narrative - 2008