Volume 42 - 1996
Issue 1
Editor: Patrick O'Donnell
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue
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Spacing and Placing Experience in Toni Morrison's Sula
Patricia McKee
Pages 1-30
Dangerous Liaisons: Prostitution, Disease, and Race in Frank Norris's Fiction
Stephanie Bower
Pages 31-60
Bonfire of the Avant-Garde: Cultural Rage and Readerly Complicity in The Day of the Locust
Mathew Roberts
Pages 61-90
Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer: Paul Auster's City of Glass
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Pages 91-110
Review Essay: Costly Compensations: Postmodern Fashion, Politics, Identity
Vincent B. Leitch
Pages 111-128
Recent Books on Modern Fiction
Pages 129-254
Issue 2
Editor: Patrick O'Donnell
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
Special Issue: Narrative and History
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Editor's Preface
Patrick O'Donnell
Pages 255-257
Mournful Histories: Narratives of Postimperial Melancholy
Ian Baucom
Pages 259-288
Jean Toomer's Washington and the Politics of Class: From "Blues Veins" to Seventh-Street Rebels
Barbara Foley
Pages 289-322
Sublime Barbarians in the Narrative of Empire; or, Longinus at Sea in The Waves
Laura Doyle
Pages 323-348
History, Literature, Proust
Michael Sprinker
Pages 349-370
Imperial Topographies: The Spaces of History in Waterland
Pamela Cooper
Pages 371-396
The Consequences of Chaos: Cleopatra's Sister and Postmodern Historiography
Tony E. Jackson
Pages 397-418
History Re-Membered: Forrest Gump, Postfeminist Masculinity, and the Burial of Counterculture
Thomas B. Byers
Pages 419-444
Review Essay: The Holocaust and Rodney King, Memory and Silence: Cliff Notes in the Age of Historical Reproduction
Alan Nadel
Pages 445-468
Issue 3
Guest Editor: Marianne DeKoven
Special Issue: Gertrude Stein
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Introduction: Transformations of Gertrude Stein
Marianne DeKoven
Pages 469-484
Stein's Identity
Charles Bernstein
Pages 485-488
Gertrude Stein's Jewishness, Jewish Social Scientists, and the "Jewish Question"
Maria Damon
Pages 489-507
"We Are Americans": Gertrude, Brewsie and Willie
Julie Abraham
Pages 508-528
"A little body with a very large head": Composition, Psychopathology, and the Making of Stein's Normal Self
Priscilla Perkins
Pages 529-546
Sapphic Primitivism in Gertrude Stein's Q.E.D.
Jaime Hovey
Pages 547-568
"Cousin to Cooning": Relation, Difference, and Racialized Language in Stein's Nonrepresentational Texts
Lorna J. Smedman
Pages 569-589
Narratologies of Pleasure: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Georgia Johnston
Pages 590-606
Gertrude Stein and Her Thoroughly Modern Protégé
Constance Pierce
Pages 607-626
Desultory Correspondence: An Interview with Paul Bowles on Gertrude Stein
Florian Vetsch
Pages 627-646
Review Essay: Stein and Cultural Criticism in the Nineties
Lisa Ruddick
Pages 647-660
Gertrude Stein: A Selected Bibliography
Deborah M. Mix
Pages 661-680
Issue 4
Editor: Patrick O'Donnell
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue
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Alan Paton and the Novel of South African Liberalism: Too Late the Phalarope
John O. Jordan
Pages 681-706
Ethan Frome and the "Springs" of Masculinity
Maria Magdalena Farland
Pages 707-729
On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner'sAbsalom, Absalom! and the New South
Rebecca Saunders
Pages 730-762
The Shattered Modernism of Momaday's House Made of Dawn
Larry Landrum
Pages 763-786
Serving a New World Order: Postcolonial Politics in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Susie O'Brien
Pages 787-806
Review Essay: Uncertain Terms of Pleasure
Christopher Lane
Pages 807-826
Book Reviews
Pages 827-942