An article relating modernism to financial speculation.

Analyzes Jack London’s The Star Rover and Mary Austin’s The Man Jesus in light of their correspondence.

Analyzes Stephen Crane’s The Third Violet in the context of his sister Agnes Crane’s vacation story “A Victorious Retreat.”

This article provides a biographical sketch of Gertrude Christian Fosdick and analyzes her little-known novel of a female artist, Out of Bohemia (1894), in the context of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun.

Analyzes Hamlin Garland’s three autobiographical accounts of his 1924 meeting with Edith Wharton as an index of her reputation as novelist and expatriate.

Discusses Edith Wharton’s “The Looking Glass” and “The Day of the Funeral” in relation to macabre humor and Anderson’s theory of the grotesque.

Peer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]