..., but they are neither driven by characterization nor open to it. A scene that seems designed to confirm the importance of the personal concludes by asserting its irrelevance. This scene's replacement of character by number provides a particularly succinct version of the indifference to individual...

... with the Irish tenants' rights groups come into conflict with his duties as a member of the liberal party. This double-bind arrangement also characterizes Phineas's every decision and, indeed, the structure of experience in the actor-networks Latour describes. “The most common experience we have of the social...

...LISA O’CONNELL DAVID A. BREWER, The Afterlife of Character, 1726–1825 (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005), pp. 288, cloth, $59.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 The Character Effect DAVID A. BREWER, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825...

...Sam Alexander This article proposes that the narratological problem of character in Joyce's Ulysses is inseparable from the biopolitical problem of population. More important than the presentation or ontological status of any individual character in Joyce's novel is the sheer number of characters...

...Jacob Hovind VERMEULE BLAKEY , Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2010 ), pp. 273 , cloth, $60.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Price Martin . “People of the Book: Character in Forster's...

...Nidesh Lawtoo Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Characterizations of modernism have been changing dramatically over the past decades, but it is only recently that critics have started diagnosing how modernist writers themselves can change our contemporary understanding of what...

... or observed by more central figures, brought to our attention for a specific purpose. More recently, critics have written about characterization in a way that allows us to link these ideas about the fictionality and functionality of Dickens's minor characters to disengagement. In Seeming Human , Megan...

... mobile notion of collective identity toward an investigation of the presence and functions of translation as a major component in her characterization. By repeatedly conveying characters across spatial, linguistic, or sociocultural bound- aries, her novels fashion translatable selves that are open...

... sisters. What is more, “simple discourse invites the reader to interpret ” (131), the more so since characterization is indirect rather than explicit: this may be part of the reason why critics have missed the significance of character in the Ephesiaca . But that significance is there, and De Temmerman...

...” ( 3 ). The problems this poses for representing institutions in the novel—a form reliant on the individual character to produce narrative momentum and closure—can be felt not only in Conrad's development of institutional characterization but also in the awkward co-presence of the novel's...

...Kent Puckett Henry James's The Princess Casamassima is, among other things, a novel about becoming a terrorist. What kind of past suits one to a terrorist's work? What makes this especially interesting is the fact that the novel's main character, Hyacinth Robinson, is offered as both the most...

... Dorrit, in a chapter titled “The History of a Self-Tormentor,” Miss Wade narrates her own pathological case study. She allows that her psychological condition has often gone under the name of “an unhappy temper”; this temper is characterized by a furious resentment of those who pity her, condescend...

... revelations . . . a series of ‘sensations’” (26). Jonathan Loesberg characterizes the sequence of the sensation novel as a “series of reversals and transferences . . . sensational effects and climaxes” (130). Thus what is continu- ous in the sensational serial is its quality of repetition, its record...

... as for thinking about its relation to other practices that sought to do the same. If the above characterization of Eliot’s fiction seems both too vague (what is “sociological insight and too specific merely( “sociological” insight it may be helpful to attend to some moments in Eliot of reflection upon...

...[eak] for her”—that characterizes the technique itself. Just as Emma's status as a literary character rises to the complexity of personhood when the omniscient narrator takes on her limitations—binds itself to the same epistemological constraints not only as someone who is used to being the doted...

...” and the “ignorant or canting doctors” might be said to linger at the threshold between characterization and the oblivion of nondescription. They are neither characters in the novel nor persons in the extradiegetic world. There is also something unusual about how statistical thinking is employed...

... bring himself to read. Critics have found Fielding’s characters problematic for as long as they have found his ‘‘perfect plot’’ laudable.1 Indeed, the nearly unanimous acclaim for Fielding’s plot has been taken to be both a recompense for and a sign of the defi- ciencies of his characterization...

... how distance allows for a triangulation among three figures: the person suffering, the spectator to that suffering, and the observer of the dynamic between the two. This third figure is characterized as an “introspector” because he can enter the mind of the spectator and describe how the spectator...

.... Jaffe, too, argues that the reader of Eliot is a “mass character,” and goes on to claim that if Eliot offers any imaginary compensation for this experience of punishing standardization, it is by constructing us as a “knowing member of the mass.” I agree with this characterization, and I want...

... befall any character or any text of any period (in other words, more a possibility recognized within a certain theoretical perspective than an historically specific condition), the essay proceeds to ask: what is it that links specifically late-Victorian notions of the inhuman with the iterable character...