... Archer, The Portrait of a Lady , and the longer arc of James's career but of psychological transparency within the nineteenth-century novel more broadly and, especially, the arrangement of what Alex Woloch calls its “character-space.” There is never any doubt about whose story The Portrait of a Lady...

... on disengagement, this article offers a different perspective on the competition for narrative attention as we know it. For example, when disengagement is taken into account, Alex Woloch's losers in the competition for narrative attention become winners in the formulation of a fulfilling social life. Dickens's...

... Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel Alex Woloch Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this sim- ple question to develop a powerful new...

...- riality. And we have Deidre Lynch's work on literary characters as a resource for readers to provide themselves with the personal means to manage a modernizing society, including that of deep interiority, along with Alex Woloch's account of how a novel's minor charac- ters produce the fictional...

... and programmatic: Figlerowicz finds in certain works a “flat realism” that deflates fiction's potential to overcome indifference and to make one person's existence signify something broadly meaningful (4). A deliberate inversion of Alex Woloch's account of character systems, this book's paradigm entails no contest...

... , 1907 . Woloch Alex . The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . Woolf Virginia . The Essays of Virginia Woolf . Ed. McNeillie Andrew . 6 vols . London : Hogarth , 1986 . Joyce’s Census...

... important for what modern readers expect from their characters (125). Throughout, Frow cites and engages important works on literary character and fictionality by Lynch, Elizabeth Fowler, Catherine Gallagher, Michael McKeon, Mary Poovey, and Alex Woloch. Along with these other works, Character...

... Books is thus, among other things, a contribution to the increasingly lively subfield of studies of literary character. When Alex Woloch published his study of character in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, he could still refer to character as a neglected area of research in comparison...

... of representation? How do stories matter? This moment in Rosen's argument, pivoting away from soft “voice” politics and into hard institutional pragmatism, accounts for a somewhat flattened reading of Alex Woloch's The One and the Many . Rosen takes that book—though with due admiration and judicious care...

... association with “the Real” in this sense: we are willing or forced to recognize in animals, more than we will in ourselves, the frightening possibility of “ending in mutton” and reverting to such formless, deindividuated matter. As Alex Woloch has argued, nineteenth-century realism relies on a set...

... literary forms like the novel. Instead, with Alex Woloch's The One and the Many , this book is interested in “weak ties” among actors who stand “outside sympathy's obvious purview” (15); in what falls to the side of narrative's “specifying effects” (18); in the minor, anonymous, and quotidian...

... or mission, the logic of centeredness itself—and is thus an opening to Lukács's “‘bad’ infinity.” The critic Alex Woloch, citing Raymond Williams, talks of the “distribution of significance” proper to the “character system” of the realist novel, whereby a group of characters is “juxtaposed and concatenated...

... ultimate choice of spouse. While Banerjee explicitly describes Emma's consciousness as operating according to the processes of preferential choice, other critics—including Alex Woloch, D. A. Miller, Michael Chwe, and William Galperin —also suggest that before readers witness her saying yes to Knightley's...

... : Johns Hopkins UP , 2010 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding . Berkeley : U of California P , 1957 . Woloch Alex . The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003...

... of fiction is largely grounded in the last few centuries. The statistical profiles are generally quite helpful as a means of recon- sidering received knowledge. The best of the readings of individual books make one want to read or re-read, say, Pedro Plivamo or The Blind Owl. Alex Woloch does a fine...

... to the social and superfi- cial aspects of character by critics like Deidre Lynch, Alex Woloch, and David Brewer and through more recent inquiries into the “prose of things” by Cynthia Wall, Bill Brown, Julie Park, and Lynn Festa. Though she has time for theories of character and things, Macpher- son...

.... For example, he suggests the need for something like what Alex Woloch has called the character-system. “The typical does not exist in isolation. Extreme situations and characters become typical only within a context. . . . A character becomes typical only in comparison with and contrast to other characters...

... representation Alex Woloch identifies in The One vs. the Many . Woloch's examples emphasize competition: the battle of the Iliad tests Achilles's physical and protagonistic dominance; the courtships at the heart of Pride and Prejudice take place in a less bloody, but no less ruthless, arena, in which...

..., Richardson, and Fielding . London : Chatto and Windus , 1957 . Woloch Alex . The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . The Nothing in the Novel: Jane Austen and the Food Plot...

... . Woloch , Alex . The One vs. The Many . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003 . Nothing Personal: The Decapitation of Character in A Tale of Two Cities DANIEL STOUT One could not read the comespandence of art old-regime intendant with his supen'ors...