In this Issue

Table of Contents

Essays

Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf

John Attridge
pp. 1-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958564
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The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions

John Coleman
pp. 27-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958565
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"I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock

Kathleen Costello-Sullivan
pp. 51-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958566
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The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing's Worlding of China

Hsiu-chuan Lee
pp. 74-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958567
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The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW

Craig Melhoff
pp. 96-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958568
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The Lady or the Dame: Class and Contradiction in Vera Caspary's Laura

Clare Rolens
pp. 120-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958569
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Vulnerability in Jean Rhys's Late Gerontography

Sue Thomas
pp. 139-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958570
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Book Reviews

Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)

Jonathan E. Abel
pp. 156-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958571
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Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)

Jocelyn Sutton Franklin
pp. 160-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958572
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Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith (review)

Philip Gould
pp. 163-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958573
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Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges (review)

Ada Hubrig
pp. 166-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958574
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Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)

Heather Latimer
pp. 169-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958575
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Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas (review)

Patricia Moran
pp. 172-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958576
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Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)

Julian Murphet
pp. 175-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958577
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Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts by Chadwick Allen (review)

Nancy Peterson
pp. 178-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958578
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Nature Prose: Writing in Ecological Crisis by Dominic Head (review)

Martin Ryle
pp. 181-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958579
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The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang (review)

Siddharth Srikanth
pp. 184-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958580
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2025.a958581
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