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• Literature, Modern -- 20th century
• Literature, Modern -- History and criticism

• Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
• Negritude (Literary movement)

• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio STate)
• The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), by Michael Keren (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), by Jini Kim Watson (PDF files at JSTOR)
• Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by N. Katherine Hayles (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by N. Katherine Hayles (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (Evanston, UK: Northwestern University Press, c2017), by Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Architecture and Modern Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by David Spurr (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Literature in Exile (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by John Glad (page images at HathiTrust)
• After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1982), by Terry Otten (page images at Pitt)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Critical I, by Norman N. Holland (HTML at ufl.edu)

• Bruno's Weekly (1915-1916), ed. by Guido Bruno (partial serial archives)

• Return to the Kingdom of Childhood: Re-Envisioning the Legacy and Philosophical Relevance of Negritude (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Cheikh Thiam (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• El Corno Emplumado (in Spanish and English) (full serial archives)
• The Smart Set (partial serial archives)
• Two Worlds (full serial archives)
• The Transatlantic Review (1924), ed. by Ford Madox Ford (partial serial archives)
• The Dial (literary and political magazine, 1880-1929) (partial serial archives)
• Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts (1921-1924), ed. by Harold Loeb (partial serial archives)
• Coterie, ed. by Chaman Lall and Russell Green (full serial archives)

• The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Eric L. Berlatsky (PDF at Ohio State)
• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florentin Smarandache's Work, by Ion Soare (PDF at UNM)

• Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1991), ed. by Leonard Orr (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Jerome Klinkowitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Mitchum Huehls (PDF at Ohio State)
• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Ishmael (originally published 1956; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Baird (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Narrative Causalities (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Emma Kafalenos (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Leslie Heywood (HTML at UC Press)
• Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), ed. by Hunter H. Gardner and Sheila Murnaghan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fact, Fiction, and Form: Selected Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Ralph Wilson Rader, ed. by James Phelan and David H. Richter (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Poethical Wager (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Joan Retallack (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Françoise Lionnet (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Books and Persons: Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Common Reader (first series, 1925), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Emerson, and Other Essays (based on the 1899 edition), by John Jay Chapman (Gutenberg text)
• Modernities (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1914), by Horace B. Samuel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Margin: Notes and Essays (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Aldous Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley
  • Volume I (Robespierre; Carlyle; Byron; Macaulay; Emerson): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Vauvenargugs; Turgot; Condorcet; Joseph de Maistre): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (On Popular Culture; The Death of Mr. Mill; Mr. Mill's Autobiography; The Life of George Eliot; On Pattison's Memoirs; Harriet Martineau; W. R. Greg: A Sketch; France in the Eighteenth Century; The Expansion of England; Auguste Comte): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A New Calendar of Great Men; John Stuart Mill: An Annversary; Lecky on Democracy; A Historical Romance; Democracy and Reaction; Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Smart Set (partial serial archives)

• Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jacob Blevins (PDF at Ohio State)

• Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jacob Blevins (PDF at Ohio State)
• Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1982), by Terry Otten (page images at Pitt)
• Architecture and Modern Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by David Spurr (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)
• Inquiries and Opinions (1907), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Foreign Literature (London: Duckworth and Co., c1908), by Virginia M. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Americanisms and Briticisms, With Other Essays on Other Isms (New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)

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