Spring 2024, 66:1

Articles

End of the Road: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-apocalyptic West
by Jacqueline Foertsch

Reopening the Dan White Trial in Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice
by Eui Young Kim

What Is Aggro? Situationist Aesthetics in the Plays of Howard Brenton
by Sedat Bay and Cengiz Karagöz

García Márquez’s Literary Smuggling in The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
by Néfer Muñoz-Solano

Winter 2023, 65:4

Special Issue: Kazuo Ishiguro

Articles

Archive Notes: An Introduction to the Kazuo Ishiguro Papers
by Megan Barnard

Intratextual Ishiguro: Transitional Spaces and the Unmaking of Interpretative Communities
by Ivan Stacy

Emotional Repression in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
by Yiqun Xiao

Reimagining Community at the Open Marshland: Ecocritical Anti-Bildung in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
by Nami Shin

Love as Subjectification in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
by Amy Christmas

Roles That Contain and Restrain: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Klara and the Sun, and Living
by Keith Oatley

Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited: A Roundtable Discussion
by Samuel Baker, Joel Faflak, Richard C. Sha, Jacques Khalip, Kate Singer, Nancy Yousef, Hannah Wojciehowski, and Mustafa Aycicegi

Fall 2023, 65:3

Articles

Vampirism in the Ether: Radio’s Horrific Potential in Orson Welles’s “Dracula”
by Nicholas a. Sabo

Nothing to See Here, Move On: A New Look at Humor in Aldous Huxley’s Mock-Dystopic Brave New World
by Kenneth Eckert

The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest
by John G. Peters

“Why Am I a Girl?”: Gender Variance and the Racial Ideal in Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”
by Catherine Irwin

Summer 2023, 65:2

Articles

Under the Sign of the Middle Passage: Black Solidarity Reimagined
by Yeshua G. B. Tolle

Ommateum and the Early Career of A. R. Ammons
by Kevin McGuirk

The Politics of Black Domesticity in Martin R. Delany’s Blake, or the Huts of America
by Joohee Seo

Lord Byron in Colonial Korea: Korean Intellectuals Pursuing National Freedom in the Spirit of Byron
by Jae Young Park

The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Grigg’s Imperium in Imperio
by Chaney Hill

Spring 2023, 65:1

Articles

“Observance of Civility”: Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
by Reto Winckler

Samuel Beckett’s Allusions to John Donne
by Shawn Smith

Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell’s Saint Peter’s Complaint
by Ronald Corthell

“Understanding Each Other Perfectly”: The Desire for Unmediated Communion in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”
by Nils Clausson

Winter 2022, 64:4

Articles

Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Steinm, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior
by Michael Abraham

The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine
by Bailey Moorhead

The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun
by Benjamin Schwartz

The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark
by Marilynn Richtarik

Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent
by Sungjin Jang and John G. Peters

Fall 2022, 64:3

Articles

Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s Prelude
by Anushka Sen

The Daughter’s Paradox: Filial Piety and Rebellion in Three Chinese Mother-Daughter Narratives
by Wang Lang

Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Naturalism/Dialect Poetry Divide
by Patricia Chaudron

Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle
by Jaecheol Kim

“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit
by Paul H. Schmidt

Summer 2022, 64:2

Articles

“The Moon Shines Down the Stair/To See Who’s There”: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics
by David Ben-Merre

Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter
by Yoshiaki Furui

Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lovely Londoners
by Bomi Jeon

Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne
by Sun Jai Kim

Spring 2022, 64:1

The Surprising Success of C.R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean and Murray
by Jae Young Park

Jinjitsu of the Spirit: Trublood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
by Joel Peckham

The Reading Closet
by Sunggyung Jo

Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Teresa Feroli

A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology
by William Tate

Winter 2021, 63:4

The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
by Luke Sayers

Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels
by Robert Lance Snyder

Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction
by John G. Peters

The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernsim in Claude Mckay’s Banjo
by Tomohiro Hori

Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke’s “Child”
by Haiyan Xie

Fall 2021, 63:3

Creative Creatures
by Patricia Clare Ingham

Charles d’Orléans’s “Fowle Langage”
by Holly Barbaccia

“The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman
by Cailin Flannery Roles

Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
by Annie Bolotin

A Man in Search of Family: Kinship and Decline in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission
by Jay N. Shelat

Summer 2021, 63:2

The Wizard of Awe: An Introduction in Three Parts
by Domino R, Perez

“You Are a Cortez!”: Robert Rodriguez’s Tejano Sensibility and Restorative Kinship in the Spy Kids Series
by Jennifer Lozano

The Latinx Fantastic: Robert Rodriguez and the Power of His Speculative Storytelling
by Christopher González

Robert Rodriguez: Teaching Creativity
by Charles Ramírez Berg

Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior
by Frederick Luis Aldama

From Dawn Till Dusk: El Rey Network and the Evolution of Cable Television in the 2010s
by Alisa Perren

Spring 2021, 63:1

Shakespeare the Formalist: Reading and Rewriting John Marston in the Poets’ War
by Meghan C. Andrews

Post-9/11-Disaster Katrina: Reenacting American Innocence in Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun
by Jung-Suk Hwang

The Critique of Reason and Biopolitics in William Blake’s The Four Zoas
by Haram Lee

A Schoolhouse of Their Own: Economic Erotics in The Children’s Hour
by Margaret Speer

Lautrémont, Anarchism and the Origins of the Avant-Garde
by Neil Nehring

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2022: Vol. 64

Paul Schmidt, “’No Sorcery’: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in Walter Tevis’ The Queen’s Gambit“

Benjamin Schwartz “The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun” (Best Graduate Student Essay)

2021: Vol. 63

Patricia Ingham, “Creative Creatures”

Annie Bolotin, “Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric“ (Best Graduate Student Essay)

2020: Vol. 62

Gregory Alan Phipps, “Male Friendships and Betrayal in the Fiction of Graham Greene”

Melissa Merte, “Plotting an Economic and Romantic Path Forward: Miss Matty’s Tea Shop and the Gendered Cycles of Cranford“ (Best Graduate Student Essay)

2019: Vol. 61

Douglas Dowland, “The Politics of Resentment in JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy“

Lindsay Munnelly, “Obstinate Objects: Agency as Immobility in Henry James’s The Spoils of Poynton” (Best Graduate Student Essay)

2018: Vol. 60

Jeffrey Michael Clapp, “Robert Lowell, Richard Nixon, and the Poetics of Surveillance”

2017: Vol. 59

Joseph Taylor, “Arthurian Biopolitics: Sovereignty and Ecology in Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle”

2016: Vol. 58

Marshelle Woodward, “Paradox Regained: Reconsidering Thomas Browne’s Double Hermeneutics”

2015: Vol. 57

Ery Shin, “The Apocalypse for Barnes”

2014: Vol. 56

Annette R. Federico, “Dorothea’s Boudoir: Dream-Work and Ethical Perception in Middlemarch“

2013: Vol. 55

Jason Hoppe, “Personality and Poetic Election in the Preceptual Relationship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862-1886”

2012: Vol. 54

Kenneth Hodges, “Reformed Dragons: Bevis of Hampton, Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene”

2011: Vol. 53 (Co-Winners)

Gwendolyn Blume: “The Reader-Brand: Tolstoy in England at the Turn of the Century” and Dustin Stewart, “Legacies of Reading in the Late Poetry of Thomas Merton”

2010: Vol. 52

Douglas Taylor, “Three Lean Cats in a Hall of Mirrors: James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and Eldridge Cleaver on Race and Masculinity”

2009: Vol. 51

Monica Cohen, “Noblemen Who Have Gone Wrong: Novel-Reading Pirates and the Victorian Stage in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance”

2008: Vol. 50

Steven W. May, “George Puttenham’s Lewd and Illicit Career”

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