... . —-. `` Wong Chin Foo's Troubles .'' New York Times ( Oct 16 , 1887 ) 16 . Beetham Margaret . `` Towards a Theory of the Periodical as a Publishing Genre .'' In Investigating Victorian Journalism , 19 - 32 . Ed. Brake Laurel Jones Aled Madden Lionel . London : Macmillan , 1990...

..., and a smaller one on which the hope for this transformation is nourished in daily, increasingly erotic labor. What their doubled temporality of promised but deferred pleasure makes possible—when formalized in periodical writing as a comforting, albeit ambivalent, state of suspension—is a kind of utopianism...

... America; Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature , 176 - 87 . Ed. Sollors Werner . New York : NYU P , 1998 . INTRODUCTION: PERIODIZATION, RACE, AND ASIAN AMERICAN SUB-GENRES HSUAN L. HSU Unpublished narratives. Legal cases in which they couldn't...

... and on their fundamental insistence on working-class difference . Instead of offering a gradualist argument in the mold of much socialist writing of the period (whether revisionist or “New Leftist”), Sillitoe's fictional engagements point to a persistent rift, to a lasting separation that may effectively lead the working...

... the uncanny nature of the relationship between data and information in the Victorian period and in our own informatic age. Mitchell underscores and seeks to expand on two strategies employed by contributors: on the one hand, the exploration of what Mitchell calls “unsecured” terms (that is, terms used in both...

...Benjamin Noys; Timothy S. Murphy The introduction to this special issue proposes a three-stage periodization for the development of weird fiction, the unstable hybrid of horror, science fiction, and fantasy most often associated with H. P. Lovecraft: Old Weird (1880–1940), which is centered...

...Eric D. Smith Central to the polarizing discussions of the late-period work of V. S. Naipaul has been the author’s apparent faithfulness to methods—and political presuppositions—derived from nineteenth-century British models of literary realism. This essay explores Naipaul’s pivotal late-period...

...Bonnie Costello Most of the scholarship on Marianne Moore and the visual arts has concentrated on her modernist period during the second and third decades of the twentieth century, when she drew inspiration from the formal innovations and metacognitive preoccupations of contemporary art. Modernism...

...Michael Martel This article examines Edwardian “radioactive fiction”—narratives about radium’s transformative political implications—to demonstrate how radioactivity shaped narrative form and English politics between 1898 and 1914. Recent scholarship on this period’s literary engagements...

.... On this reading, a theory of time as gradual development (flow) sits in tension with a model that imagines short, sharp transitions between discrete temporal periods (structures), one “step” and another. Like Barthes, Eliot aims to think in both synchronic blocks and linear flows simultaneously. She goes further...

...Su Fang Ng This article considers European cross-cultural exchanges with Islamic Southeast Asia from the perspective of language. Earlier assumptions of the superiority of European languages over non-European ones are unwarranted. In the early modern period English was a peripheral language...

... that to escape the profane world can only be to repurpose it as sacredly lovable. When The Sound of Music resorts at the end to the tombs of the abbey, however, it puts a period to its own escapism. © 2016 by University of Oklahoma 2016 escapism globalization Utopianism musicals Richard Rodgers...

... to abuses like eugenics, it has never disappeared. It exists today in the field of evolutionary psychology and its offshoot, Darwinian psychiatry. This fledgling discipline posits the mind as developing during the long period of hunter-gatherer existence, with some emotional states and behaviors now...

... choice as to what analytic lenses or worldviews can or should be defended. Even as literary studies continues to open up possible texts and traditions for study, the bottom has fallen out of a hiring market organized around periodizing categories and national literatures. Turning back to Wiredu...

.... The book's historical trajectory spans more than a thousand years: the three central chapters focus on charms from the Old English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English periods, with forays into antiquity and (in the conclusion) the early modern period. This longue durée allows Hindley to demonstrate some...

... Gleaner , a series of periodical essays that she originally published in Massachusetts Magazine and then later as a book volume. But Koenigs concentrates on only one small plotline in these essays—what he titles the Story of Margaretta . Murray, however, does not identify this story by name, and indeed...

... development in the late Soviet period. Having placed this critical revolutionary moment of Rus- sian history—the time of most intense political and social bifurcations—at the centre of our investigation, we were able to analyze the complex processes of a rapid...

... poet. While H.D. wrote extensively about film and films, and participated very active- ly in film production, and Stein helpfully claimed in her lecture "Portraits" that "our period was undoubtedly the period of the cinema" (cited on 56), there is considerably less testimony to be heard...

... simply be projected onto a much earlier period; and both fail to distinguish between European techno-military dominance in the Americas and the comparative weakness of Europe in relation to China. Markley's opening salvo, then, is that postcolonial readings have not been radi- cal enough...

.... The book's chapters are neatly organized, each addressing a mode of data technology. The first, about the social survey, is the longest and most fully elaborated of the chapters. Womack notes that the social survey is a popular form among African American social historians and sociologists of the period—take...