...”: the accumulation of details provides an authentic sense of place. But the detail’s usual role in constructing immersive worlds seems antithetical to the project of the so-called global novel, which has often been characterized by placelessness and by cosmopolitan, jet-setting characters. This essay examines...

... second claim involves periodization and uneven development. The events that produced the 1968 social explosions in the global North are bound up with the earlier liberation movements of the global South. Thus the global South’s 1968, partially reflected in these novels, offers a perspective...

...Liam Lanigan Abstract This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-system disrupts Lukácsian totality. Because the novel attends to the complexity...

... . 1990 . “ The Anxiety of Global Influence: What Is World Poetry? ” New Republic , November 19 , 28 – 32 . Parks Tim . 2010 . “ The Dull New Global Novel .” NYRblog , February 9 . www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/feb/09/the-dull-new-global-novel ( accessed February 14, 2011...

... the Eurocentric canon for a global age while enacting the death of the romance of the novel. The essay has three parts: the first examines V. S. Naipaul's vexed identification with and shadowing of Joseph Conrad; the second discusses J. M. Coetzee's deconstructive interpretation of the national and cultural...

... of global modernity. It does so via readings of interconnected novels by Orhan Pamuk, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, and Marcel Proust. References Adūnīs . 2003 . “ Poetics and Modernity .” In An Introduction to Arab Poetics , translated by Cobham Catherine , 87 – 122 . London : Saqi...

... that “the dream of the great American novel” would be superseded by “the global novel” set “in the United States, destination of journeys from everywhere” (344). As Buell explains it, the Great American Novel—or “GAN,” in Henry James’s ironic diminution of 1880—was always a chimera, for this ambivalence about...

.... Mad Men belongs to a long line of naturalist narratives in which the outsider within (often a Jew or probable Jew) assimilates the myriad impacts of capitalist globalization and thus exemplifies the periodic resurgence of historical realism, which Georg Lukács predicted in The Historical Novel...

... concerns of space, place, locality, and imperialism that have defined readings of it for decades, for Forster’s book augurs the global implications of ostensibly local changes to the environment. The pressures Howards End buckles under, its apocalypticism and the formal fissures between the novel’s...

..., location, or people, “China” in this peripheral realism represents the experiential schism between cultural identity and global commodification. Reading Xiao Sa’s novel Song of Dreams as a narrative about the social life of commodities in this context, Liu explores realism’s capacity for diagnosing...

... the rediscovery (by Anglo- American scholars) of early modernisms in Mexico, China, and Persia, cannot fully shed the original and sedi- mented attachment to metropolitan avant- gardism. Nor can it account, we think, for other genealogies of the global novel stretching across the twentieth and twenty- rst...

... as the religion of the novel’s second major character?” 2 We broaden this question: how is it that the global reach of religion is acknowledged as so central to the Victorian literary imagination but so rarely emerges as a meaningful object of scholarly interest? The oversight of global religion...

... used by Erin O’Connor ( 2003 ) to critique postcolonial analyses of Victorian novels, the use of and engagement with the postcolonial still provide a methodological challenge to modes of criticism advanced under the global and the world. Postcolonial literary criticism remains attuned to questions...

... and a language that might sound acceptable and promising if this body had not degenerated into a coercive and violently repressive regime of global dimensions. The novel makes no claim to an ideological commitment, for in front of the committee, with its mili- tary members, the protagonist exposes...

... together. I refer to I City as a novel, but before it became a book, its genre was ambiguous.32 Was this work a novel or a series of essays? Fiction or nonfiction? Turning the installments into a book was in fact a complicated process, prompting Xi Xi to claim 31  Saskia Sassen, The Global...

... ( 2016 : 21) consigns to globality: The world novel of our times, while being a product of our age, is not reducible to the realism of globalization. The global . . . is the domain of territorial and material expansion. The novelistic world can be conceptually distinguished from the globe...

... toward liberalism and a rising Tory imperialism. Thus The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic , in addition to elaborating Fredric Jameson’s concept of the geopolitical aesthetic, redirects the insights on Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary in Georg Lukács’s Historical Novel toward the British novel...

... interconnection as opposed to independence and isolation (159). The shift to Cairo as the new locus for translation in the Arab world (after the British invasion of Egypt in 1882) allows Johnson to bring another set of European works into the mix of colonizing/globalizing imperatives: the “scientific” novels...

... or the global — tea, coffee, or spices in any European novel after 1700, for instance. These are all markers of the work’s rela- tion to the world, just as the presence of felt hats, maps, and porcelain show, in the work of Johannes Vermeer, the artist confronting, along- side other seventeenth-­century...

... by regional (telenovelas) and global ( Titanic ) middle classes. It is easy to confuse all this stuff with the end of nationalism, mainly because most of the people reading this do not actually live in other countries, where in fact the national novel is moving along quite nicely. Consider, for instance...