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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Austen as a parental figure whose legacy called for continuing negotiation. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 domestic fiction social-problem novel industrial novel gender influence Should Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
... failures.” Since the revival of interest in Gissing from the mid-twentieth century, his novels have proved attractive to literary historians, as the abiding concerns of this latter-day social problem novelist—life in the slums, the New Woman, the waning of a literary scene—have lent themselves...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 491–515.
Published: 01 December 2017
... life. Sociological fiction differs from earlier nineteenth-century US literature concerned with the disadvantaged, the transatlantic social problem novel, and the too broad categories of realism or naturalism by specifically naming Progressive institutions and political organizations...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 570–572.
Published: 01 December 1940
... symbolical treatment of a contemporary social
and political phenomenon; but the problem itself is handled in a
rather unsatisfactory manner . . . Selma Lagerlof, it must be
admitted, had little ability in writing a “problem novel,” though
The Miracles of Anti-Christ must always stand...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 151–176.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Fanny Price), the essay describes witness-protagonists as characters with an uncertain relation to the novel as a whole. Straddling the functions of narrator and character, witness and agent, they pose at once a formal problem (of where to place the character in relation to the story) and a political...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 287–290.
Published: 01 September 1987
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(if not the ‘solution’) of intractable problems, a method for rendering
such problems intelligible” (p. 20). In McKeon’s scheme, the development
of the English novel was less a progression of literary forms or a response
to particular social changes than a sign that previous genres such as spiri-
tual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 159–180.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Vivasvan Soni Abstract Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews is often thought to have inaugurated a tradition of sociological observation in the novel, and it also cultivates a practice of judgment in readers. Yet the social theory that informs Fielding’s novel (Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Mandeville...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 157–180.
Published: 01 March 2000
... of California Press, 1988);
and Miller, Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981).
Frances Ferguson is professor of English and the humanities and direc-
tor of the Center...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 119–136.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and arbitrary fate was essential for comprehending his object: historical causality. Although Lukács repudiated his own work on multiple occasions, his various arguments regarding the novel invariably link realism to a social reality “in which the immanence of meaning in life has become a problem” (Lukács 1971...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 429–453.
Published: 01 December 1994
... and Birth”
Lennox’s attempt to elevate the novel works through class problems as
well as those of gender and thus underscores the generic and social
dimension to her criticism. Novelistically proper and decorous behav-
ior, she claims, is not only the province of “tender maids” but also...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 126–132.
Published: 01 March 1943
... the
impossible daunts Miss Haines; she actually tries to teach club-
women how to review a novel!
Professor Taylor’s book on The Economic Novel in America is
the result of a study of the 250 novels on economic problems pub-
lished in America between 1870 and 1901. (It is delightful to know...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 329–349.
Published: 01 September 2012
...
a different set of problems, including labor, caste con ict, and social
movements. In southern India, K. S. Venkataramani revalorized the
rural in novels like Murugan the Tiller and Raja Rao excavated
caste in Kanthapura In Bhabani Bhattacharya published...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (2): 151–161.
Published: 01 June 1980
.... As Morgan points out, however,
With the eighteenth century a great change came over these social
treatises. In the first place, the select coteries no longer existed, and
1 The Rise of the Novel ofManners (191 1; rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963), p. 89...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 393–404.
Published: 01 September 1993
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of the failure, rather than the success, of the social, political, and philo-
sophical premises of modern culture to render the world rational and
real.
For the novel derives its generic identity from its refusal of the
rational principles of form making previously associated with the cate-
gory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (3): 519–544.
Published: 01 September 2000
... apparent or even missing in the others” (SG, xiv).
The narratives that interest Bakhtin most are those of the more
complex “central problems” to which Holquist alludes: narrativity, au-
thorship, polyphony, indeterminacy, modernity. Specific novels serve...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 323–347.
Published: 01 September 2003
... eighteenth-century novels read, then we are stuck with
the problem: curiosity, causality, the novel. Our task here is to account
for that strange concatenation.
So how do we get from a “mechanical turn” to “an invincible attach-
ment to books”? The answer, I would claim, is Machiavelli—to which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... thinking” in the novel. References Alexander Sam . 2012 . “ Joyce’s Census: Character, Demography, and the Problem of Population in Ulysses .” Novel 45 , no. 3 : 433 – 54 . Alexander Sam . 2019 . “ Social Network Analysis and the Scale of Modernist Fiction .” Modernism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 75–105.
Published: 01 March 2011
...-purpose female demon, clearly she expresses a form of moral panic
most likely to arise in capitalist societies.
Thus the Nana figure enabled authors to explore social and philo-
sophical problems that are absent, or at best submerged, in Zola’s novel.
What at first seems derivative variation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 153–174.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of
Chicago Press, 1988), 9.
Martin The Privilege of Contemporary Life 157
cal work on American Psycho “brand[s] the novel as pornography.”7 But
the bright lights of Ellis’s spectacular content have tended to distract
critics from the formal problems posed by the texts, which concern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 511–539.
Published: 01 December 2014
... . “ The Transformation of Reality and the Arabic Novel’s Aesthetic Response .” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) 57 , no. 1 : 93 – 112 . Harlow Barbara . 1986 . “ Return to Haifa: ‘Opening the Borders’ in Palestinian Literature .” Social Text , nos. 13-14...
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