Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2023)
Journal Article
Davies, L. L. (2023). Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 71(2), 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2023-2014

This article explores Gyorgy Lukacs's reflections on the relationship between the eighteenth-century novel and early modern capitalism. As such, it offers a critical overview of Lukacs's treatment of this subject in two major works - The Theory of th... Read More about Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (2023)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2023). Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot. Modernism/modernity, 30(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2023.a902605

This article examines two of Claude McKay’s novels, Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929) with relation to their characters’ complex and sometimes seemingly contradictory attitude to food cultures. McKay’s characters demonstr... Read More about Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot.