Volume 47 - 2001
Issue 1
Guest Editor: Stephen Ross
Special Issue: Working-Class Fiction
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Introduction: Working-Class Fictions
Stephen Ross
Pages 1-11
"Work Has the Smell of Vinegar": Sensing Class in John Berger's Trilogy
Peter Hitchcock
Pages 12-42
In the Country of Contradiction the Hypocrite is King: Defining Dirty Realism in Charles Bukowski's Factotum
Tamas Dobozy
Pages 43-68
The Politics of Cliché: Sex, Class, and Abortion in Australian Realism
Nicole Moore
Pages 69-91
Cities of Affluence: Masculinity, Class, and the Angry Young Men
Peter Kalliney
Pages 92-117
Poles Apart? Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Nelson Algren
Ian Peddie
Pages 118-144
Breaking the Signifying Chain: A New Blueprint for African-American Literary Studies
Bill V. Mullen
Pages 145-163
The Other Proletarians: Native American Literature and Class Struggle
Tim Libretti
Pages 164-189
The Failures of the Romance: Boredom, Class, and Desire in George Gissing's The Odd Women and W. Somerset Maugham'sOf Human Bondage
Lise Sanders
Pages 190-228
Domestic Labor: Film Noir, Proletarian Literature, and Black Women's Fiction
Paula Rabinowitz
Pages 229-254
A Theoretical Afterword
Asha Varadharajan
Pages 255-276
Contributors
Pages 277-278
Issue 2
Editor: William J. Palmer
Assistant Editor: John N. Duvall
General Issue
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Vision and Inversion in Nightwood
Jean Gallagher
Pages 279-305
The Narrator in the Closet: The Ambiguous Narrative Voice inHowards End
Paul B. Armstrong
Pages 306-328
Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and Faulkner
Erik Dussere
Pages 329-355
Undiscovering the Country: Conrad, Fitzgerald, and Meta-National Form
Peter Mallios
Pages 356-390
J. M. Coetzee and the Question of the Body
Brian May
Pages 391-420
Rethinking History as Patchwork: The Case of Atwood's Alias Grace
Magali Cornier Michael
Pages 421-447
(Review Essay) The Simple Art of Detection: The Female Detective in Victorian and Contemporary Mystery Novels
Suzanne Young
Pages 448-457
(Review Essay) Re-effectuating Joyce
David Herman
Pages 458-464
In Search of African Literary Theory
John C. Hawley
Pages 465-470
Book Reviews
Pages 471-549
Contributors
Pages 550-551
Issue 3
Guest Editor: David Herman
Special Issue: Iris Murdoch
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Introduction: Approaches to Murdoch
David Herman
Pages 551-557
Iris Murdoch: The Philosophic Fifties and The Bell
Michael Levenson
Pages 558-579
Philosophy's Dangerous Pupil: Murdoch and Derrida
Bran Nicol
Pages 580-601
Envisioning the Good: Iris Murdoch's Moral Psychology
A. E. Denham
Pages 602-629
Feminist Uses of the Fantastic in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea
Katherine Weese
Pages 630-656
Desires Deferred: Homosexual and Queer Representations in the Novels of Iris Murdoch
W. S. Hampl
Pages 657-673
Realism Disavowed? Discourses of Memory and High Incarnations in Jackson's Dilemma
Richard Todd
Pages 674-695
An Interview with Iris Murdoch
S. B. Sagare
Pages 696-714
Book Review
Pages 715-717
Contributors
Pages 718-719
Issue 4
Editor: John N. Duvall
Assistant Editor: Siobhan Somerville
General Issue
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Editor's Note
John N. Duvall
Pages 721-722
"Remorse and Power": Conrad's Karain and the Queen
David Adams
Pages 723-752
A Slow and Dark Birth: Aesthetic Maturation and the Entelechic Narrative in James Joyce's Ulysses
Eric D. Smith
Pages 753-773
A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital
Sean Latham
Pages 774-799
"A Further Reservation in Favor of Strangeness": Isherwood's Queer Pastoral in The Mortmere Stories and "On Reugen Island"
Stuart Christie
Pages 800-830
Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture between the Wars
Faye Hammill
Pages 831-854
Postcolonial Complexity in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe
Ervin Beck
Pages 855-886
The Postmodern Imaginary in William Gibson's Neuromancer
Tony Myers
Pages 887-909
On the "Simplicity" of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street
Felicia J. Cruz
Pages 910-946
Edith Wharton and the Fiction of Marital Unity
Laura K. Johnson
Pages 947-976
(Review Essay) Idealized, Debased, and Ordinary: Gender in (Post)Modern Circuits of Desire
Madelyn Detloff
Pages 977-985
(Review Essay) What's Contemporary about Contemporary Women's Fiction?
Sally Robinson
Pages 986-994
(Review Essay) The Perils of Disembodied Readership
Tim Engles
Pages 995-1003
(Review Essay) James Joyce after Postcolonialism
Susan Harris
Pages 1004-1008
Placing the Unplaceable: The Dilemmas of Samuel Beckett's Fiction
William Cloonan
Pages 1009-1018
Book Reviews
Pages 1019-1075
Contributors
Pages 1076-1077