Replacing the "Urban Sublime": The City in Contemporary American Fiction by Heinz Ickstadt

“…Pourtant, elle n’a pas totalement disparu de la fiction américaine récente. Elle pourrait être considérée, de manière concrète, comme l’environnement où s’inscrit l’expérience d’un quartier spécifique ou comme un lieu de transaction transculturelle (en particulier dans les romans récents consacrés aux communautés ethniques) mais aussi, de manière abstraite, comme le signe visible de forces invisibles qui simultanément transcendent et absorbent la ville dans des romans où semble se perpétuer la tradition moderniste du sublime urbain. …”
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French Beliefs: Walter Pater and Contemporary French Fiction by Bénédicte Coste

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Claude Le Fustec, Northrop Frye and American Fiction by Robert D. Denham

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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

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The Fragmentary Sentences’ Functions in the Modern German Fiction Texts by L. V. Fadeeva

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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). …”
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Exploring multimodality, literacy and learning with young adult fiction by Melissa Schieble

“…The author examines how preservice English teachers engaged a sociocultural and critical approach to literacy instruction and the tools of a web-based classroom to discuss young adult fiction with adolescents. A sociocultural approach to literacy instruction emphasizes meaning making as an iterative process between text and a reader's lived social, cultural and linguistic experiences. …”
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C-Reactive Protein in Human Atherogenesis: Facts and Fiction by Oliver Zimmermann, Kefei Li, Myron Zaczkiewicz, Matthias Graf, Zhongmin Liu, Jan Torzewski

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London’s Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Fiction by Tamara Silvia Wagner

“…They did so in markedly divergent ways that evince the versatility of suburban fiction.…”
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Portals and Pulps: Orwell, Hoggart, “America,” and the Uses of Gangster Fiction by John Fraser

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Joseph Kestner, Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880–1915 by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

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The Egyptian Museum in Fiction: The Mummy’s Eyes as the ‘Black Mirror’ of the Empire by Nolwenn Corriou

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Merwin’s Prose Poetry: Collective Memory in Uncanny Short Fiction by Françoise Palleau-Papin

“…In his early collections of short fiction pieces in prose poetry, The Miner’s Pale Children (1970) and Houses and Travellers (1977), W.S. …”
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L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…In a Freudian/gender approach to the issue of male sex identity in Charles Dickens’s fiction, the present article starts from Edmund Wilson’s seminal study ‘The Two Scrooges.’ …”
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Fiction Rescues History: Don DeLillo Conference in Paris by Luca Ferrando Battistà, Maud Bougerol, Aliette Ventejoux, Béatrice Pire, Sarah Boulet

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Thomas Cousineau, Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction by Philippe Birgy

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Jill L. Matus, Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction by Bénédicte Coste

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Christopher Pittard, Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

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