In this Issue

Table of Contents

Spacing and Placing in Toni Morrison's Sula

Patricia McKee
pp. 1-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0009
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Dangerous Liaisons: Prostitution, Disease, and Race in Frank Norris's Fiction

Stephanie Bower
pp. 31-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0058
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Bonfire of the Avant-garde: Cultural Rage and Readerly Complicity in The Day of the Locust

Mathew Roberts
pp. 61-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0010
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Work of the Detective, Work of the Writer: Paul Auster's City of Glass

Jeffrey T. Nealon
pp. 91-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0011
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Review Essay

Costly compensations: postmodern fashion, politics, identity

Vincent B. Leitch
pp. 111-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0055
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Reviews of Recent Books on MFS Modern Fiction
The Americas

Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline (review)

Peter C. Carafiol
pp. 133-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0045
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Double-Consciousness/Double-Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth- Century Black Literature (review)

Malin Lavon Walther
pp. 136-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0057
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Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990 (review)

Marcus Klein
pp. 138-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0052
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Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (review)

William J. Palmer
pp. 140-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0012
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Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse (review)

Charles Scruggs
pp. 142-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0051
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Ellen Glasgow and a Woman's Traditions (review)

Susan Goodman
pp. 145-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0036
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Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text (review)

Thomas F. Strychacz
pp. 147-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0019
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Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy (review)

Cyrena N. Pondrom
pp. 149-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0035
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The Novels of William Styron: From Harmony to History (review)

Christopher Metress
pp. 152-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0018
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Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction (review)

Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
pp. 155-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0038
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Writing After War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism (review)

D. Quentin Miller
pp. 157-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0033
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Cynthia Ozick's Fiction: Tradition and Invention (review)

Hans Borchers
pp. 159-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0030
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Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West (review)

Dick Harrison
pp. 161-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0020
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The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence (review)

Barbara Godard
pp. 164-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0027
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Mexican Literature: A History (review)

Steven Frye
pp. 167-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0023
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Reinaldo Arenas: The Pentagonia (review)

George R. McMurray
pp. 171-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0025
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Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction (review)

Carlos J. Alonso
pp. 173-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0034
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Britain, Ireland, Continental Europe, and Africa

Virginia Woolf Against Empire (review)

Ellen Bayuk Rosenman
pp. 176-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0043
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The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment (review)

Ellis Hanson
pp. 178-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0046
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The Blinding Torch: Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization (review)

Herbert N. Schneidau
pp. 180-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0053
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Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition (review)

Lisa J. Limburg
pp. 183-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0031
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Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain (review)

Daniel R. Schwarz
pp. 185-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0054
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The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design (review)

Michael Wutz
pp. 189-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0024
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Illness. Gender & Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield (review)

Rhoda B. Nathan
pp. 192-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0017
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Doris Lessing, and: Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change (review)

Betsy Draine
pp. 194-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0044
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History and Ideology in Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic, and: Reading Proust: In Search of the Wolf-Fish (review)

Rebecca Karoff
pp. 198-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0047
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Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism (review)

Brian Boyd
pp. 203-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0026
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Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex)Soviet and American Women (review)

Stephanie Sandler
pp. 205-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0013
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The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: Images of Modern Egypt (review)

Michael Beard
pp. 208-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0037
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Homelands, Harlem, and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (review)

Jeanne M. Colleran
pp. 211-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0041
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Comparative and Cultural Studies

Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, and: Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism (review)

Mária Minich Brewer
pp. 214-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0014
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Writing from the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics (review)

Barbara Harlow
pp. 219-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0048
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Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (review)

Thomas Reinert
pp. 221-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0029
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Post-modern Science Fiction (review)

David Porush
pp. 224-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0016
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Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology (review)

Kathleen M. Woodward
pp. 227-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0049
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"Modernist" Women Writers and Narrative Art (review)

Laura L. Doan
pp. 230-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0050
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Murder by the Book? Feminism and the Crime Novel (review)

Marty S. Knepper
pp. 232-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0039
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Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise (review)

Roger K. Anderson
pp. 234-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0028
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Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (review)

Chris Bongie
pp. 237-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0015
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Theory

The Ambivalence of Form: Lukacs, Freud and the Novel (review)

David Bruce Suchoff
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0021
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Ethics, Theory, and the Novel (review)

Elizabeth Patnoe
pp. 243-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0042
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Narrative Ethics (review)

David H. Richter
pp. 247-250
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0040
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Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis. (review)

Susan Derwin
pp. 250-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0032
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Still Life in Real Time: Theory After Television (review)

Allen Meek
pp. 252-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0022
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Contributors

p. 255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0056
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