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MFS publishes scholarly essays that analyze the important aesthetic, cultural, political, and environmental developments currently shaping today’s academic and public conversations. A leading international literature and humanities journal, MFS focuses on the various modalities and uses of fiction in the broadest sense of the term—publishing material designed to speak to a wide audience of scholars, public intellectuals, and cultural practitioners working across diverse fields, regions, and venues. Now in its sixty-eighth year, MFS is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and is available online at Project MUSE.

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Editor's Note

John N. Duvall

pp. 721-722

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0081

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"Remorse and Power": Conrad's Karain and the Queen

David Adams

pp. 723-752

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0068

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A Slow and Dark Birth: Aesthetic Maturation and the Entelechic Narrative in James Joyce's Ulysses

Eric D. Smith

pp. 753-773

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0106

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A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital

Sean Latham

pp. 774-799

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0091

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"A Further Reservation in Favour of Strangeness": Isherwood's Queer Pastoral in The Mortmere Stories and "On Reugen Island"

Stuart Christie

pp. 800-830

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0074

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Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture Between the Wars

Faye Hammill

pp. 831-854

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0086

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Postcolonial Complexity in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe

Ervin Beck

pp. 855-886

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0071

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The Postmodern Imaginary in William Gibson's Neuromancer

Tony Myers

pp. 887-909

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0100

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On the "Simplicity" of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street

Felicia J. Cruz

pp. 910-946

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0078

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Edith Wharton and the Fiction of Marital Unity

Laura K. Johnson

pp. 947-976

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0088

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Idealized, Debased, and Ordinary: Gender in (Post)Modern Circuits of Desire

Madelyn Detloff

pp. 977-985

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0079

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What's Contemporary about Contemporary Women's Fiction?

Sally Robinson

pp. 986-994

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0103

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The Perils of Disembodied Readership

Tim Engles

pp. 995-1003

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0083

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James Joyce after Postcolonialism

Susan C. Harris

pp. 1004-1008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0087

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Placing the Unplaceable: The Dilemmas of Samuel Beckett's Fiction

William J. Cloonan

pp. 1009-1018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0075

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New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (review)

Sean McCann

pp. 1021-1023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0095

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Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction (review)

M. Keith Booker

pp. 1023-1025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0072

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Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (review)

William M. Morgan

pp. 1025-1027

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0099

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Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature (review)

Jeffrey Paul Melnick

pp. 1027-1029

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0097

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Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa (review)

Gwen Athene Tarbox

pp. 1029-1031

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0108

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Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul (review)

Keith Eldon Byerman

pp. 1031-1033

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0073

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Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison (review)

Catherine Gunther Kodat

pp. 1033-1035

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0090

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Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist (review)

Sue Walker

pp. 1035-1036

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0109

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Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World (review)

John N. Swift

pp. 1037-1038

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0107

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Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (review)

Frann Michel

pp. 1038-1040

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0098

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Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography (review)

Laura Barrett

pp. 1040-1042

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0070

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Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction (review)

Marni J. Gauthier

pp. 1043-1045

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0085

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Virginia Woolf Icon (review)

Anne E. Fernald

pp. 1046-1048

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0084

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Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (review)

Thomas P. Adler

pp. 1048-1050

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0069

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The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-20 (review)

Enda Duffy

pp. 1050-1052

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0080

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Joyce's Comic Portrait (review)

Maren Linett

pp. 1052-1054

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0093

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Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Heart of Darkness (review)

John G. Peters

pp. 1054-1056

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0101

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Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction: Killing the Other (review)

Norman Ravvin

pp. 1056-1058

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0102

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Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (review)

Joseph Mark Conte

pp. 1059-1061

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0076

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Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern (review)

John King

pp. 1061-1063

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0089

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Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (review)

Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy

pp. 1063-1065

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0096

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Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities, and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin (review)

Pericles Lewis

pp. 1065-1068

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0092

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Women Coauthors (review)

Katharine Rodier

pp. 1068-1070

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0104

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Writing a Politics of Perception: Memory, Holography, and Women Writers in Canada (review)

Julia Emberley

pp. 1070-1072

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0082

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Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture (review)

Irving Malin

pp. 1072-1073

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0094

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Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia (review)

Heather Schell

pp. 1074-1075

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0105

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Contributors

pp. 1076-1078

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2001.0077

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