MFS Modern Fiction Studies

Editor

John N. Duvall

Associate Editor

Robert P. Marzec

Editorial Assistants

Shaun Clarkson, Marc Diefenderfer, and Elizabeth A. Boyle

Purdue Advistory Board

Marlo Denice David

Lance Duerfahrd

Wendy Flory

Sandor Goodhart

Shaun F. D. Hughes

Robert Paul Lamb

Maren Linett

Alfred J. López

Jennifer Freeman Marshall

Daniel Morris

Bill V. Mullen

Venetria K. Patton

Nancy J. Peterson

Arkady Plotnitsky

Charles Ross

Aparajita Sagar

James Robert Saunders

Patrocinio Schweickart

Editorial Advisory Board

Paul B. Armstrong, Brown University

Herman Beavers, University of Pennsylvania

Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University

Chris Bongie, Queen’s University

Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow

Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University

Marc Dolan, City University of New York

Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts

Jonathan Eburne, Pennsylvania State University

Anne Fernald, Fordham University

Ellen G. Friedman, College of New Jersey

Donald Goellnicht, McMaster University

Barbara Harlow, University of Texas, Austin

David Herman, Durham University

Scott Herring, Indiana University

Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky

Randall Knoper, University of Massachusetts

Martin Kreiswirth, McGill University

John T. Matthews, Boston University

Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia

Patrick McGee, Louisiana State University

Mark McGurl, Stanford University

David McWhirter, Texas A & M University

Richard C. Moreland, Louisiana State University

Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University

Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky

Patrick O’Donnell, Michigan State University

Stacey Olster, SUNY, Stony Brook

Robert Dale Parker, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Adam Parkes, University of Georgia

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, University of California, Irvine

Catherine Rainwater, St. Edward’s University

John Paul Riquelme, Boston University

Judith Roof, Rice University

Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University

Urmila Seshagiri, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University

Susan Strehle, SUNY, Binghamton

John J. Su, Marquette University

Jay Watson, University of Mississippi

Phillip Wegner, University of Florida

Steven Weisenburger, Southern Methodistn University