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... and barbarisms,” it set a lasting precedent. Several ingenious studies have explained how the nineteenth-century novels known as American his- torical romances, by authors such as Hawthorne, contributed to the early consolidation of American national...

... and the Jewish Question.” Sex,Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel . Ed. Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins up, 1986 . 39 -62. Graver, Susanne. George Eliot and Community. A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form. Berkeley: u of California p, 1984 . Kaufmann, David...

... of financialized capitalism. This new situation noticeably departs from earlier instantiations of the debt chronotope. In the nineteenth century novel, amortization of debt is arguably one of the most efficient devices for plot configuration. In Balzac’s Lost Illusions , everything that happens...

... to the public as a labor of love, or what Weeks characterizes as the romance with work, the woman fashioned for the Fordist household has now become the representative worker. Eighteenth-and nineteenth-century novels insisted that the ability to love their domestic work was immanent in women’s nature. Weeks’s...

... that the attraction of biological likeness to likeness, the infertility of hybrids, and the limits of geographical proximity would limit the choice of a mate. variation selection attraction difference Charles Darwin nineteenth-century novel © 2016 by Brown University and differences : A Journal...

... The “railway journey” which fills nineteenth-century novels as an event of travel and social encounter was at bottom an event of spatial relocation in the service of production. . . . It was a decisive mode...

..., critically for a work of narra- tive fiction like To the Lighthouse , contingency “un-tells” or “dis-narrates ” or “unrelates” the passions whose “relating” constitutes the domestic form of knowledge furnished by the nineteenth-century...

.... Phelps’s novel challenges, too, the victimology of nineteenth-century reform and, in doing so, contests the “feminization” of the culture. Phelps shows what happens when the vic- tim does not submit to a disciplinary code that she has...

...-refracting and translucent properties of precious stones such as emeralds or sapphires—and is different again from the semiprecious and semiopaques like hematite, agate, malachite, opal, quartz, topaz, and moonstone (all of which carried their own connotations in some nineteenth-century novels, much like...

... the "plot of decline" -in Howard's term-which for marxism is the narrative both of naturalism and of the late nineteenth-century history to which it refers. It is the power of the latter plot that requires the begging male heroes of novels like McTeague and Carrie-rather than their successful female...

.... At the outset of her chapter on Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Tompkins summarizes her goal: The thesis I will argue . . . holds that the popular domestic novel of the nineteenth century represents a monumental effort...

... of Dreams.” 1900 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 4 . 1 -338. Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination . New Haven: Yale up, 1979 . Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development...

... that ushered in a new family based on mutual consent, as I will show in reading William Hill Brown’s Power of Sympathy. It was not until the nineteenth century, however, that novels fully exploited the capability of the libertine to generate...

... and nineteenth centuries, is evidently supplanted in the twentieth century with consuming understood as buying them. We might take Catherine Gallagher's treatment of Frances Burney and the novel as some proof: "Evelina, [Burney] claimed, was intended to have readers rather than buyers; it was destined for people...

... have to adjudicate Alec’s guilt, we would then have room to think about the novel’s exploration of how the experience of rape harms Tess. Sex was literally and socially dangerous for nineteenth-century women; maternal mortality was high, and pregnancy outside of marriage spelled economic destitution...

... obsessions—that comes to define her future work. Across the world and nearly half a century later, Wang Anyi’s 1995 novel, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow ( Chang hen ge ), reveals the melancholy harbored within each “young lady’s bedchamber” in Shanghai’s longtang , the “vast neighborhoods inside...

...: Garnier-Flammarion, 1968 . Frawley, Maria H. Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain . Chicago: Chicago up, 2004 . Friedman, Susan Stanford. “Gender and Genre Anxiety: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and H. D. as Epic Poets.” Rpt. in Reynolds 466 -73. Johnson, Barbara. A World...

... : Farrar , 1972 . Bolt Christine . “ Race and the Victorians .” British Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century . Ed. Eldridge C. C. . New York : St. Martin's , 1984 . 126 - 47 . Bowlby Rachel . Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola . New York : Methuen...

... rocher, ou L’ananké du grand Hugo . Saint-Germain : Toinon , 1866 . Gilman Sander . “ Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature .” Critical Inquiry 12.1 ( Autumn 1985 ): 204 – 42 . Gilmore...

... the distinction between paranoid and reparative, symptomatic and surface readings, and ultimately offering a method that I will call parasymptomatic reading, a way of reading with symptoms, even with one’s own, rather than through or against them. Let me begin, then, with a nineteenth-century American...