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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Kalyan Nadiminti Abstract “The Global Program Era” traces the rise of the international writer from the global South in the North American master of fine arts (MFA) program and the resulting effects on the contemporary global anglophone novel. Extrapolating from Mark McGurl's The Program Era (2009...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
...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...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Rolland Murray Literary and cultural critics have tended to interpret African American literary postmodernism as a broad threat to the cohesion of racial community. Alternatively, this essay submits that contemporary novels by Charles Johnson, Andrea Lee, and others have also construed...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Jane Elliott Focusing on Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake , this essay examines what I term “dramas of immediacy” in recent North American fiction. Postmodern novels of the 1980s and 1990s were defined in part by their interest in the way in which narrative shaped our experience, particularly...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 52–76.
Published: 01 August 2007
... to Thomas McKean. 31 Aug . 1813 . The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States . Ed. Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 10 . Boston: Little, 1856 . 62 –63. Allen , Gay Wilson , and Roger Asselineau. St. John de Crèvecoeur: The Life of an American Farmer . New York: Viking...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 77–103.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Barnes , Elizabeth . States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel . New York: Columbia UP, 1997 . Berman , Carolyn Vellenga . Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... whose 1920s‐era story registers as actually being about the post–civil rights period in which the novel was published. The essay goes on to suggest that such an allegorical function is served by the African American novel in general, insofar as African American novels are understood to thematize...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 437–442.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of court, and then published Randall's novel—it misstated the political nature of parody to achieve a legal benefit. By sharpening the definition of parody to include the trope of irony, I demarcate the fine line separating African American literature's historic attacks on racial stereotypes from...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Dierdra Reber Given the cultural ascendance of visuality, what is the place of the written text within visual culture? Are there ways in which written narrative strategies privilege image over word? This essay studies how three Latin American texts move generationally toward the current era...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 1999
... Hamilton, 1744 . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1948 . xi –xxxii. Bushman , Richard . “American High-Style and Vernacular Cultures.” Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era . Eds. Jack P. Green and J.R. Pole Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2000
... –118. Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New York: Verso, 1983 . Andrews , William . “The Novelization of Voice in Early African American Narrative.” PMLA 105 ( 1990 ): 23 –34. Andrews , William , ed...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
...MADHU DUBEY Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Baker , Houston A. Jr . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Bell , Bernard W. Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist . Chapel Hill: U...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.
Published: 01 November 2002
...W. LAWRENCE HOGUE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Bell , Bernard W. , ed. Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2001 . Bradfield , Larry D. “Beyond Mimetic Exhaustion: The Reflex...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 153–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Duncan Faherty Work Cited Pattee Fred Lewis . “ Is There an American Literature? ” Dial 21 ( 1896 ): 243 – 45 . While Pattee does not surface as an interlocutor in this impressive volume, Tawil does offer a reformulated version of Pattee's seminal question in his coda...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of nineteenth-century women's fiction, Ashley Reed argues against the critical tyranny of secularization. Indeed, the book's critical occasion lies in Reed's belief that secular and liberal modes of thought have shaped—and distorted—the study of American women's writing in general and the sentimental novel...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 384–401.
Published: 01 November 2006
...RACHEL COLE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Agamben , Giorgio . Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy . Ed. and trans. Agamben , Giorgio . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999 . Barrish , Philip . American Literary Realism, Critical Theory...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 104–124.
Published: 01 August 2007
...EZRA TAWIL Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Alonso , Carlos J. The Spanish American Regional Novel: Modernity and Autochthony . New York: Cambridge UP, 1990 . Ashfield , Andrew and Peter de Bella, eds. The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 125–150.
Published: 01 August 2007
...AMANDA EMERSON Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Axelrod , Alan . Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale . Austin: U of Texas P, 1983 . Barnard , Philip , Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro, eds. Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 366–370.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Ivy Schweitzer MARION RUST, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2008), pp. 328, cloth, $59.95, paper, $24.95. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Work Cited Samuels , Shirley , ed. The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 204–220.
Published: 01 August 2006
.... Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture . Dallas: Southern Methodist UP, 1985 . Hedrick , Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life . New York: Oxford UP, 1994 . Howe , Daniel Walker . Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997...
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