.... LOREMETZGEK Emory University The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope. By WALTEKM. KENDKICK.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. xiii +’ 143 pp. $10.95. Walter M. Kendrick’s book presents itself as a useful and long-overdue proj...

... contribute to society’s well-being and demonstrates the centrality of empiricist political theory for the modernist novel. Through close readings of The Invisible Man and Love and Mr. Lewisham , and broader discussion of Wells’s oeuvre, his engagement with empiricist values, conflicts, and literary forms...

... (2012), both as coeditor; and Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry (2013). The Novel after Theory . By Ryan Judith . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . ix + 260 pp. © 2014 by University of Washington 2014 Reviews Homer and the Politics of Authority...

...Maria DiBattista The Novel in England, 1900–1950: History and Theory . By Robert L. Caserio. New York: Twayne, 1999. xii + 441 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.2-04 Reviews 4/20/01 3:02 PM Page 189 Reviews Shakespeare after Theory...

.... $3.00. In the author’s words, “the purpose of this study is twofold: to present Cooper’s views on fiction in some detail for the first time, and to provide a connected description of his novels in relation to his theory.” The first of these intentions is admirably fulfilled, for Mr...

...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...

... of geological time to human history, challenging traditional theories of historical change. Drawing on this notion, Dipesh Chakrabarty outlines three theories of history. History 1 and 2 refer to liberalism and its postcolonial and postmodern critique, respectively. History 3, or post-Anthropocene history...

... of instrumentalization. James's theories of technology and modernism recast familiar debates about the relationship among the early-twentieth-century novel, mass culture, and commodification. He neither posits the novel as a work of art that is exempt from economic pressures nor embraces the commodity as a model...

...Melanie Micir Abstract Reading Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life (2013) in the context of theories of the historical novel (Georg Lukács, Fredric Jameson) and counterfactual fiction (Catherine Gallagher, Andrew Miller, Paul Saint-Amour) sheds light on an overlooked genealogy of the feminist modernist...

..., for which Proust’s novel “has long provided something of a field day” (Ladenson 1999: 109). The dominance of psychoanalytic theory in literary criticism, at least where the analysis of the mind is concerned, has affected our understanding of Proust’s novel in ways that sometimes obscure the nuances...

... of late style and from Theodor W. Adorno’s and Edward Said’s theories of late style as ironic anachronism. By conveying in prose style the relative decline and the contingent reduction that for Roth and DeLillo define lateness as a temporality, their novels find in lessness a motivated style for lateness...

...Samuel Baker It is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his...

...Amit S. Yahav Abstract This essay examines the theory of leisure that Samuel Johnson presents in his Idler series and that Jane Austen engages in her novel Mansfield Park . Just as productivity and vigilance are becoming unassailable values, Johnson and Austen publish popular works designed...

... the biographical novel has gained so much legitimacy and popularity since the 1990s. This, of course, does not mean that canonical texts lack or even lost their power or value or that authors will stop writing works in the tradition of Ellison and Warren. But it does mean that shifts in our theories of truth...

... successors in Tanpınar and Pamuk. In theory, this finding should affirm the modernist tenet of multiple simultaneous temporalities and, in turn, eliminate the construct of belatedness. But in practice, it raises the following question: If all three novels operate on the multiple simultaneous rhythms...

...-nineteenth. While the factory, the steam engine, and miasma theory characterize the Anthropocene history of the nineteenth century, Forster’s early twentieth century features the spread of empire, the growth of the suburbs, and what he calls in Howards End “the stink of petrol” (88). The novel’s Mid...

... it is both product and participant. The limitations of this ap- proach for understanding specific novels are matched by its attractions for theory and criticism. As early as 1983 Linda Hutcheon observed: “The revalorizing of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin today does not ap...

... 2018 abstraction Marxism theory of the novel Thomas Hardy work Of all nineteenth-century English novelists, Thomas Hardy is the one most identified with the concrete, the earthy, and the corporeal. The world of his fiction would seem to surge up from “the interstices of a mass of hard...

... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Lukács Georg . 1971 . The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Translated by Bostock Anna . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Macpherson Sandra . 2010 . Harm’s Way: Tragic...

... . 1 This isn’t the only occasion where Baetens’s case studies violate his theory. Among his survey of “poem-novelizations” (itself a seeming contradiction), Baetens describes the récits de films produced by the “École de Photogénie” as “mak[ing] a clean break with the nonvisual stance of narrative...