Journal of Modern Literature

Volume 30
Number 1Fall 2006

CONTENTS Volume 30, Number 1Fall 2006

Robert Caserio
Editor’s Introduction/v

John Whalen-Bridge
The Karma of Words: Mailer since Executioner’s Song/1

James Emmett Ryan
“Insatiable as Good Old America”: Tough Guys Don’t Dance and Popular Criminality/17

Scott Duguid
The Addiction of Masculinity: Tough Guys Don’t Dance and the Cultural Politics of Reaganism/23

Ashton Howley
Mailer Again: Heterophobia in Tough Guys Don’t Dance/31

David Rampton
Plexed Artistry: The Formal Case for Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost/47

Jeffrey F.L. Partridge
The Gospel According to the Son and Christian Belief/64

Brian McDonald
Post-Holocaust Theodicy, American Imperialism, and the “very Jewish Jesus” of Norman Mailer’s The Gospel According to the Son/78

J. Michael Lennon
Norman Mailer: Novelist, Journalist, or Historian?/91

Nils Clausson
“Perpetuating the Language”: Romantic Tradition, the Genre Function, and the Origins of the Trench Lyric/104

Vike Martina Plock
A Feat of Strength in “Ithaca”: Eugen Sandow and Physical Culture in Joyce’s Ulysses/129

Jon Chatlos
Automobility and Lyric Poetry: Mobile Gaze in William Carlos Williams’s “Right of Way”/140

Jonathan Bolton
Mid-Term Autobiography and the Second World War/155

Matt Brim
Papa’s Baby: Impossible Paternity in Going to Meet the Man/173

Heather Lusty
Shaping the National Voice: Poetry of WWI/199

Notes on Contributors/210

Call for Papers/213

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