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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Paul Hurh In recent criticism of Herman Melville's Pierre , Pierre's incestuous desire poses a challenge to the sympathetic model of democratic sociality: in transgressing filial distinctions, it erases the difference that makes sympathy possible and illustrates a limit point to the fantasy...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
...—Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno,” and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave —revealed the incoherence of “literature” as it gradually assumed its modern form. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 novella Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 384–401.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1895 . Cambridge UP, 2001 . Bellis , Peter . No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990 . Bourdieu , Pierre . Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 November 2012
... studies—William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad,
Herman Melville. Cohen’s Novel and the Sea moves beyond single authors and away from
seeing the ocean as metaphor for alienation, death, or the sublime of Samuel Coleridge’s
Rime of the Ancient Mariner. For Cohen the sea is both a geographical...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for the secretary of defense (Gelb, “Letter”). This might be one reason why Gelb, only thirty years old at the time, ended his prefatory memorandum with a reference to another text that famously defies easy classification, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : Writing history, especially where it blends...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ): 49 – 62 . Honig Bonnie . Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1993 . James C. L. R. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In . Hanover : UP of New England , 2001 . Jameson Fredric...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 August 2010
...). SAMUEL
OTTER is professor and chair of English at the University of California–Berkeley. He is the author of
Melville’s Anatomies (1999) and Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom (2010) and
co-editor of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation (2008...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): iv.
Published: 01 November 2002
... that explores visions of the
nation in the contemporary historical novel.
JERRY PHlLLIPS is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University
of Connecticut. He is the author of articles on Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold,
Thorstein Veblen, and Richard Price. He is currently...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 327–342.
Published: 01 November 2012
... . James C. L. R. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In . Hanover : Dartmouth College , 2001 . Lacan Jacques . The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959–1960 . Trans. Porter Dennis . New York : Norton , 1992 . Lynch Deidre...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 310–312.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., Dowling describes the masterful self-
presentation that has made Irving the pattern author for scholars of literary economics.
A similar set of issues is at play in his discussion of Herman Melville’s relationship
with his editor, Evert Duyckinck, although in this case the author was much less...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... American Novel—book after book, decade after decade, as if, this time, one might finally be right! Conversely, authors as various as Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Jonathan Franzen have continued to conceive of literary projects as expressions of America...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 140–144.
Published: 01 May 2019
... itself” (9). The book's object of study is therefore a particularly self-reflective strain of terror, one “more tonal and atmospheric than directed” (7), of the kind found more commonly in writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville; this modal affect, Hurh asserts, is more aesthetically continuous...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 353–355.
Published: 01 November 2004
..., discusses a wide and
illuminating range of authors, from Herman Melville and Lydia Maria Child in the
Antebellum to the 1930s Modernism of Anna Yezierska and Henry Roth.
Such breadth does not turn her book into a mere constellation of different crowd in-
stances. By Esteve's reading, differ...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 1999
... observation on the notion that it was Defoe's envi-
sioning the adventures of Crusoe as a midrash on Jonah that enabled him to write a real-
istic novel. As Fisch observes, in Moby-Dick, Herman Melville had drawn on the book of
Jonah for Father Mapple's Sermon. In comparing Melville's use of the Jonah...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 453–456.
Published: 01 November 2013
... indigenous literacies can surge forth again from
apparent destruction. Treating tattooing in Herman Melville’s Typee and Moby-Dick, Ras-
mussen’s final chapter moves beyond early American moments and into more recognizably
belletristic works. That Melville was interested in an expansive concept...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 473–475.
Published: 01 November 2020
... seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century popular fiction (as well as her fancy French cousin, Madame de Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves), through Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe, through the persistent image of Jane Austen herself as a detached and impersonal being, through Herman Melville's Bartleby...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 141–145.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, and James Fenimore Cooper are cast as “thought experiments on the new democratic reality” (20). The phrase “thought experiments” may be familiar to readers of Margolis's first book, The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 350–353.
Published: 01 August 2010
... not explain
whether her terms are appropriate for other writers in the period, known for their fascina-
tions with subjectivity (such as Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass)
or with history (such as James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria
Child, and George...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Fenimore Cooper to Herman Melville's Amasa Delano in “Benito Cereno.” Popular women writers such as Catharine Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe join an excavation of the typological configurations of John Bull and Brother Jonathan. Lesser-known works such as John Augustus Stone's once-popular play...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2012
... came to define the social spaces of the new republic, and the remainder of the
book explores how this discursive tradition continued to shape literary production as
the nineteenth century progressed. Addressing the seduction novels of James Fenimore
Cooper and Herman Melville in chapters 5 and 6...
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