Most cited papers in Modern American Literature Studies
What are the most cited papers in Modern American Literature Studies?
The most cited paper in Modern American Literature Studies is "Climate change in literature and literary studies: From cli‐fi, climate change theater and ecopoetry to ecocriticism and climate change criticism" (Adeline Johns‐Putra, 2016), with 227 citations. Next come "Bad Endings: American Apocalypsis" (226) and "Meet the humanities" (187).
Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 18 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Climate change in literature and literary studies: From cli‐fi, climate change theater and ecopoetry to ecocriticism and climate change criticism Adeline Johns‐Putra · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change | 20 Jan 2016 | 227 |
| 2 | Bad Endings: American Apocalypsis Kathleen Stewart, Susan Harding · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1999 | 226 |
| 3 | Meet the humanities Mike Hulme · Nature Climate Change | 24 Jun 2011 | 187 |
| 4 | What Are the Novels of the Anthropocene? American Fiction in Geological Time Kate H. Marshall · American Literary History | 7 Jun 2015 | 136 |
| 5 | Public memory and private grief: The construction of shrines at the sites of public tragedy Cheryl R. Jorgensen‐Earp, Lori A. Lanzilotti · Quarterly Journal of Speech | May 1998 | 118 |
| 6 | Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination Victoria Lichterman · The Journal of Popular Culture | 16 Nov 2007 | 107 |
| 7 | The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy Robert C. Sickels · ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | Jul 2005 | 87 |
| 8 | The Third Wave of Ecocriticism: North American Reflections on the Current Phase of the Discipline Scott Slovic · Ecozon European Journal of Literature Culture and Environment | 17 Apr 2010 | 75 |
| 9 | A Democratic Pynchon: Counterculture, Counterforce and Participatory Democracy Jeffrey S. Baker · Pynchon Notes | 22 Sep 1993 | 73 |
| 10 | Dead Man Still Walking Kyle William Bishop · Journal of Popular Film and Television | Apr 2009 | 73 |
| 11 | Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism Richard Slotkin, Richard Maxwell Brown · Western Historical Quarterly | Jul 1976 | 73 |
| 12 | the myth of "moral panic": an alternative account of LSD prohibition Benjamin T. Cornwell, Annulla Linders · Deviant Behavior | Jul 2002 | 68 |
| 13 | An extended model for crowd evacuation considering pedestrian panic in artificial attack Changkun Chen, Huakai Sun, Lei Peng et al. · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 9 Feb 2021 | 65 |
| 14 | Pandemic Fear and Literature: Observations from Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague Michele Augusto Riva, Marta Benedetti, Giancarlo Cesana · Emerging infectious diseases | 25 Aug 2014 | 62 |
| 15 | Territoriality and Mating Behavior of the Male Brown-Headed Cowbird James A. Darley · Ornithological Applications | Feb 1982 | 62 |
| 16 | Media justice: Madeleine McCann, intermediatization and ‘trial by media’ in the British press Chris Greer, Eugene McLaughlin · Theoretical Criminology | 3 Sep 2012 | 60 |
| 17 | To scale or not to scale: McCarthy and Wood revisited Albert R. Haig, Evian Gordon, Stephen Hook · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | Aug 1997 | 59 |
| 18 | Toxic Colonialism, Environmental Justice, and Native Resistance in Silko’s Almanac of the Dead T. V. Reed · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States | 2009 | 57 |
| 19 | Thomas Pynchon, Postmodernism, and the Rise of the New Right in California C. Robert Shoop · Contemporary Literature | 2012 | 55 |
| 20 | Anonymous Signatures: Circulating Libraries, Conventionality, and the Production of Gothic Romances Edward Jacobs · ELH | Sep 1995 | 54 |
| 21 | Ecocriticism Pippa Jane Marland · Literature Compass | Nov 2013 | 53 |
| 22 | Nature and The Supernatural: Pynchon's Ecological Ghost Stories Douglas Keesey · Pynchon Notes | 22 Sep 1986 | 50 |
| 23 | Field validation of a free-agent cellular automata model of fire spread with fire–atmosphere coupling Gary L. Achtemeier · International Journal of Wildland Fire | 25 Sep 2012 | 48 |
| 24 | Where is Southern Literature?: The Practice of Place in a Postsouthern Age Scott Romine · Critical Survey | 2000 | 48 |
| 25 | Pyrogeography in flux: Reorganization of Australian fire regimes in a hotter world Calum X. Cunningham, Grant James Williamson, Rachael H. Nolan et al. · Global Change Biology | 2024 | 47 |
| 26 | Rapid Assessment of Population Size by Area Sampling in Disaster Situations Vincent Brown, Guy Jacquier, D Coulombier et al. · Disasters | Jun 2001 | 45 |
| 27 | Outliving Death: Ebola, Zombies, and the Politics of Saving Lives Veronica Gomez‐Temesio · American Anthropologist | 14 Sep 2018 | 44 |
| 28 | Silent Alarm: The Mosquito Youth Deterrent and the Politics of Frequency Mitchell Akiyama · Canadian Journal of Communication | 2 Nov 2010 | 44 |
| 29 | American Literary Realism and Nervous “Reflexion” Randall Knoper · American Literature | Dec 2002 | 44 |
| 30 | Histories, Novels, Ideas: Steven Frye · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 22 Apr 2013 | 43 |
| 31 | The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. Rodney M. Sievers, Robert Denison Griffith · American Quarterly | Aug 1972 | 43 |
| 32 | Black Insecurity at the End of the World Justin Louis Mann · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States | Sep 2021 | 42 |
| 33 | The Good Guys: McCarthy'sThe Roadas Post – 9/11 Male Sentimental Novel Nell Sullivan · Genre | Mar 2013 | 42 |
| 34 | Raising the Dead Kyle William Bishop · Journal of Popular Film and Television | 2006 | 42 |
| 35 | Reading Allegory and Nature in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Vision of the Language of Nature Gabriella Blasi · Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies | Jun 2014 | 41 |
| 36 | The New Naturalism: Cormac McCarthy, Frank Norris, and the Question of Postmodernism Michael Tavel Clarke · Studies in American naturalism | Jun 2014 | 41 |
| 37 | Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World Plate, S. Brent, Linafelt, Tod · Journal of Religion & Film | Apr 2003 | 40 |
| 38 | Gothic Trouble: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Globalized Order Marie Liénard-Yeterian · Text Matters | 23 Nov 2016 | 40 |
| 39 | Looking in Wonder: Prenatal Sublimity and the Commonplace “Life” Nathan Stormer · Signs | 15 Feb 2008 | 40 |
| 40 | “Nor Hell a Fury”: Malkina's Motivation in Cormac McCarthy's THE COUNSELOR Russell M. Hillier · The Explicator | 3 Apr 2014 | 40 |
| 41 | REVERSAL OF BLAST-CELL CRISIS IN C.G.L. BY TRANSFUSION OF STORED AUTOLOGOUS BUFFY-COAT CELLS JohnM. Goldman, Daniel Catovsky, D. A. G. Galton · The Lancet | Feb 1978 | 40 |
| 42 | Against the Post-Apocalyptic: Narrative Closure in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One Leif B. Sorensen · Contemporary Literature | 2014 | 39 |
| 43 | The Kiddie-Sads-Present and Lifetime Version Paulo Mattos, Luís Augusto Rohde · Journal of Attention Disorders | 20 Aug 2007 | 39 |
| 44 | A Physical-Based Cellular Automaton Model for Forest-Fire Propagation Anthony Collin, D. Bernardin, Olivier Sero-Guillaume · Combustion Science and Technology | 14 Feb 2011 | 38 |
| 45 | L'imaginaire de la ruine dans la littérature contemporaine : l'exemple de The Road de Cormac McCarthy Anaïs Boulard · Sociétés | Jun 2013 | 38 |
| 46 | Albert Erskine at Random House: The Cormac McCarthy Years Daniel Robert King · Comparative American Studies An International Journal | 15 Aug 2011 | 38 |
| 47 | (Carrying the Fire on) No Road for Old Horses: Cormac McCarthy’s Untold Biblical Stories Richard Walsh · Journal of Religion and Popular Culture | Nov 2012 | 37 |
| 48 | Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory: An Introduction Erin James, Eric Morel · English Studies | 19 May 2018 | 37 |
| 49 | On the apocalyptic columbine Joshua Gunn, David E. Beard · Southern Communication Journal | Sep 2003 | 37 |
| 50 | The Persisting Relic of Prayer in The Road by Cormac McCarthy Béatrice Trotignon · Revue française d’études américaines | 19 Aug 2015 | 37 |
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