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• Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Tyrus Miller (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Martin Bock (PDF at Ohio State)
• Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c2018), by Nasser Mufti (multiple formats at escholarship.org)
• History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Victorian Afterimages (Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by Kate Mitchell
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Molly Hite (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Novel in Motion: An Approach to Modern Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1983), by Richard Pearce (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (London: L. and V. Woolf, at the Hogarth Press, 1924), by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)
• The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford, by Paul B. Armstrong
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE

• Thomas Hardy's Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy's Imagination (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Suzanne Keen (PDF at Ohio State)

• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

• Decentering Rushdie: Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Pranav Jani (PDF at Ohio State)

• Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Pallavi Rastogi (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• Two Stories ("Three Jews" and "The Mark on the Wall"; Richmond, UK: Hogarth Press, 1917), by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf, illust. by Dora de Houghton Carrington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Windsor Magazine (1895-1910): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #32; 2004), by Catharine Vaughan-Pow (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Chambers's Journal, 1854-1910: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #17; 1989), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Cassell's Family Magazine (Cassell's Magazine): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #12; 1987), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Harmsworth Magazine (London Magazine): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #10; 1984), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• Indexes to Fiction in The Idler (1892-1911) (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #23; 1994), ed. by William B. Thesing and Becky Lewis (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• The Signature (all 3 issues published; 1915), ed. by D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, and John Middleton Murry (full serial archives)

• Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015), by Nicole M. Rizzuto
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by James F. Knapp (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering and Sympathy in Modern Literature, Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Walter J. Slatoff
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Ashley Dawson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and The Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Christopher Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• Figures in Modern Literature (London: J. Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924), by J. B. Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thus to Revisit: Some Reminiscences (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1921), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Revathi Krishnaswamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Critical Attitude (London: Duckworth and Co., 1911), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Magic Casements: The Use of Poetry in the Expanding of Consciousness, by George Trevelyan (HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
• New Ways in English Literature (second edition; Chennai: Ganesh and Co., 1919), by James Henry Cousins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• Forty Years' Recollections, Literary and Political (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace of Mind: Essays and Reflections, August 1914-September 1917 (London: A. Melrose, 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Mitchum Huehls (PDF at Ohio State)
• Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Margo Natalie Crawford (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Sharon Stockton (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2016), by Jimmy Fazzino
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter Caster (PDF at Ohio State)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2018), by John Claborn
  • HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF at oapen.org
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by James F. Knapp (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

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