... of the European novel in 1860s Russian and 1880s French narrative. I will query Jameson's dialectic of realism and subsume it under a larger dialectical framework encompassing a further, temporally neuter impulse. This is the speculative impulse, which will help us reconsider some of the most important...

... realist art based on dated assumptions about the European novel. They expand the category of realism to include examples from the realisms of late Victorian theater; postcolonial fiction from African, Egyptian, and Indian milieus; and photojournalistic experiments wrought in response to revolution...

... nation-state and capitalism are absent. I draw upon Georg Lukács's reflections on historical consciousness and the European novel to consider the differences between realist forms as they are deployed in the metropolis and the periphery. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited bin Abdul Kadir...

...Franco Moretti My essay poses three questions: Why are novels in prose? Why are they so often stories of adventures? Why was there a European but not a Chinese rise of the novel in the course of the eighteenth century? Disparate as they may sound, the questions have a common source in the guiding...

...Jed Esty Lukácsian narrative theory remains influential in literary studies despite the fact that many of its principles and conclusions seem specific to novel production within the industrializing heartland of the nineteenth-century European nation-state. Starting with the premise that two...

...Fabio L. Vericat Abstract This essay proposes to consider how The American (1875) is symptomatic of Henry James's elocutionary insecurities about the demands the European nineteenth-century novel placed on the authorial voice—crucially aggravated by the American stutter that accompanied the young...

...Leonard Tennenhouse Works Cited Moretti Franco . Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900 . New York : Verso , 1998 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding . Berkeley and Los Angeles : U of California P , 1957 . © 2012 by Novel...

... breeding ground for the new form of sovereignty he called “the will of the majority” or “public opinion.” This popular rule worked against the very form of self-sovereignty coveted by European liberalism and cultivated by the English novel to transform such individuals into an irresistibly powerful...

... the classical Chinese and European novels to internal formal attributes; rather, he compares the position that the novel occupies within each culture's hierarchy of genres, the political implication.. of its use of the vernacular, the intellectual-historical context of the novel's...

....” Trans. Harry Zohn. Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938 . Ed. Howard , Eiland and W. Jennings Michael. Cambridge: Belknap, 2002 . 143 -66. Cunningham , David . “After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel.” Adorno and Literature . Ed. Cunningham David and Mapp...

... of the eighteenth century, it also began its course as a transnational genre for the first time. Its transnationality was an effect of a particularly modern set of practices and attitudes about translating fiction in the European core. Thus transnationalism describes a new period in prose fiction's mobility...

... as Machado’s little story does with Livy’s History of Rome, to which the story parodically compares itself. That is to say, Schwarz momentarily recasts the European novel and the comprehensive principles Moretti draws from his prodigious knowledge of that form to serve as an example for the theory...

... pressing question for the American novel was not, as Bird's contemporaries believed, whether the establishment of European-style hereditary estates was necessary to foster a homegrown American novel tradition. Rather, Sheppard Lee suggests, it was whether Americans could form any truly stable attachments...

..., revealing territorial transformations from nation-state to globalized empire as a series of open-ended and perpetually shifting stages, Kim , a novel of the spatialized and politicized buffer zone, elucidates what becomes of the European geographic imagination when both nation-state and boundless “empty...

...Noha Radwan The early twentieth century witnessed the birth of an Egyptian novel that was an offspring of European realism and a constituent of the project of “modernizing” the country and the region. Yet by the middle of the century, the majority of Egyptian writers were veering away from realism...

... system that had sustained the realist novel. (260) This broad, world-systems take on the waning of European realism sheds new light on the antirealist drift of the 1950s American critical consensus. Indeed, the apparent exhaustion of Western European social realisms only intensified American...

... Nights, Arab-European Literary Influence, and the Lineages of the Novel .” Modern Language Quarterly 68 . 2 ( 2007 ): 243 – 80 . Khater Akram Fouad . Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870–1920 . Berkeley : U of California P , 2001 . Khūrī...

..., and Pluralism . Durham: Duke UP, 1995 . Moretti , Franco . Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 . London: Verso, 1998 . Snyder , Carey J . British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Ethnographic Modernism from Wells to Woolf . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 . Expansion...

... to be more prototypically novelistic than others. If the identification of the European novel as a distinct type of writing (even if it has a formal resemblance to earlier lengthy prose narratives in the Latin, Hellenic, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese traditions) emerging at a particular, if extended...

... . Cambridge: Polity, 1986 . Kiernan , V.G. The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989 . Lukács , Georg . The Historical Novel . Trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell. London: Merlin, 1962 . MacKinnon , Catharine . Feminism...