Modern Fiction Studies

Robert P. Marzec, Editor

Maren Linett, Associate Editor

Frida Beckman, Managing Editor

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71.3 (Fall 2025)

General Issue

• Articles
  • Patty Argyrides, "'Secretly Proustian': Les Biches, Mrs. Dalloway, and In Search of Lost Time"
  • Thomas Heise, "A 'Usable Past': Teju Cole's Open City and the Fictions of Memory"
  • Rachael Isom, "'Gazing at the View': The Prospects of Nature Poetry in Virginia Woolf's Orlando"
  • Philipp Loeffler, "Scholars vs. Critics: Henry James, The Aspern Papers, and Professional Vocation"
  • Ariel Pridan, "The Habsburg Myth and the Production of Space in Joseph Roth's Job: The Story of a Simple Man"
  • Brian Richardson, "The Hidden Ending of Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending"
  • Bonnie Roos, "Unwinding Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Ariadne’s Quest: Helga Crane’s Sacrifice to the Minotaur of Racial Uplift"
  • Eric Sandberg, "'In Full Holocaust': Gravity's Rainbow and the Absent Atrocity"
• Reviews
  • Stephen Ross and Kiera Bandy, "Rethinking Modernity: An Essay-Review"
  • Jackson Ayres, "The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel: States of Repair by Kelly M. Rich"
  • Dev K. Bose, "Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum"
  • Geneviève Brassard, "Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History by Jesse Wolfe"
  • Martha C. Carpentier, "1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell’s 1984 by Brian May (review)"
  • Anthony Gottlich, "Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond by Matthew Omelsky"
  • Rae Greiner, "The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson"
  • Andrew Koenig, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames"
  • Kathy Lou Schultz, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America by Stephanie Li"
  • Shantella Sherman, "Rethinking Racial Uplift: Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era by Nigel I. Malcolm"
  • Lu Sun, "Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea by Satoru Hashimoto"
  • Steven Trout, "Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck"

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