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Front Cover: Still from In a Lonely Place (1950). Directed by Nicholas Ray. Shown: Gloria Grahame (as Laurel Gray), Humphrey Bogart (as Dixon Steele). Image provided courtesy of Columbia Pictures.
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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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Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 2009Table of Contents

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View Radical Noir: Negativity, Misogyny, and the Critique of Privatization in Dorothy Hughes's In a Lonely Place
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View Ordinary Disappointments: Femininity, Domesticity, and Nation in British Middlebrow Fiction, 1920–1944
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View From Visibility to Visuality: Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization
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View Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (review)
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View Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History (review)
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ISSN | 1080-658X |
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Print ISSN | 0026-7724 |
Launched on MUSE | 2009-06-26 |
Open Access | No |
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