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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 34, Number 2, Summer 1988Table of Contents

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View A Varied Harvest: The Life and Works of Henry Blake Fuller, and: American Writers and Radical Politics, 1900-39: Equivocal Commitments, and: The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century, and: Desire and the Sign: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (review)
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View The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, and: Eliot, James, and the Fictional Self: A Study in Character and Narration (review)
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View Dreiser-Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken, 1907-1945, and: Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871-1907 (review)
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View The Sherwood Anderson Diaries, 1936-1941, and: Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, Letters, and: Prairies Within: The Tragic Trilogy of Ole Rölvaag (review)
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View Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction, and: The Old Fictions and the New (review)
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View Since Flannery O'Connor: Essays on the Contemporary American Short Story, and: Risen Sons: Flannery O'Connor's Vision of History (review)
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View A World Outside: The Fiction of Paul Bowles, and: Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction (review)
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View The Writer as Shaman: The Pilgrimages of Conrad Aiken and Walker Percy, and: Figures of the Hero in Southern Narrative, and: Time's Glory: Original Essays on Robert Penn Warren (review)
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View Joyce Carol Oates: Artist in Residence, and: The Uncompromising Fictions of Cynthia Ozick (review)
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View Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, and: Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick (review)
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View In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s (review)
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View The Emperor's Kites: A Morphology of Borges' Tales, and: Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature, and: Gabriel García Márquez: New Readings, and: García Márquez and Latin America (review)
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View Fictional Discourse and Historical Space: Defoe and Theroux, Austen and Forster, Conrad and Greene, and: Knowledge and Experimental Realism in Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf, and: Conrad's Mythology (review)
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View The Great War of Words: British, American, and Canadian Propaganda and Fiction, 1914-1933 (review)
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View The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels, and: Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy, and: Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury (review)
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View Sons and Lovers: A Novel of Division and Desire, and: The Legacy of D. H. Lawrence, and: D. H. Lawrence: New Studies (review)
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View Confused Roaring: Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition, and: H. E. Bates: A Literary Life (review)
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View Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival: A Changeling Art, and: Sean O'Faolain's Irish Vision, and: Kate O'Brien: A Literary Portrait (review)
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View Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller, and: Corridors of Deceit: The World of John le Carré (review)
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View The Sherlock Holmes Letters, and: The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographers in Search of a Life, and: Arthur Conan Doyle (review)
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View Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction, and: The Oak in the Acorn: On "Remembrance of Things Past" and on Teaching Proust, Who Will Never Learn, and: Language and Narration in Céline's Writings: The Challenge of Disorder, and: Simenon: A Critical Biograph (review)
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View The Loves of Franz Kafka, and: Double Dealing, and: Double Heart, and: Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (review)
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View The Making of the Twentieth-Century Novel: Lawrence, Joyce, Faulkner and Beyond, and: Literary Theory at Work: Three Texts, and: The Failure of Theory: Essays on Criticism and Contemporary Fiction (review)
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View Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction, and: Aliens in the Home: The Child in Horror Fiction (review)
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View Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies, and: Criticism without Boundaries: Directions and Crosscurrents in Postmodern Critical Theory (review)
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View The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume Two, 1918-1919, and: The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield (review)
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View Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, and: Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future, and: Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish (review)
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View Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question, and: Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction (review)
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View Between Two Worlds: A Critical Introduction to "The Master and Margarita", and: Style and Structure in the Prose of Isaac Babel (review)
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ISSN | 1080-658X |
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Print ISSN | 0026-7724 |
Launched on MUSE | 2009-01-01 |
Open Access | No |
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