... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... England itself. By contrast, European reviewers praised Richardson’s Clarissa both as an expression of the English novel and “as a fiction of the human heart” (115). Thus, McMur- ran writes, “Clarissa inspired fidelity, not least because rendering Clarissa word for word performed one’s sentimental...

... 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...

...—the bildungsroman, which accounts for the hero's maturation through time, and the picaresque, which plots the hero's cultural and emotional educations spatially. Kipling's novel and his youthful hero, then, represent not only the uneven, unfinished, often disjointed induction of the colonies into European...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... realism, the depressive determinism of French naturalism, and the heavy metaphysical weather of the Russian novel. Likewise, in the Cold War moment, American critics tended to repudiate social realism, taken once more as a European relic and increasingly associated with the depressed horizons...

... 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...

...Ban Wang During his tenure in the Lu Xun Academy in Yan'an, the center of the Chinese Revolution, the novelist Zhou Libo ran a seminar on world literature. While teaching masterpieces of European novelists, Zhou developed a theory of the novel that inherited themes of liberal humanism...

...: it recovers an understudied story from Wright on its own terms, thereby challenging the tendency to read his early work as premature versions of Native Son ; second, it acknowledges black radical thought and aesthetics as a distinct tradition with fascinating convergences and divergences from European...