... Herman Melville Frederick Douglass administration Longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, the novella appears to occupy a clear formal niche. However, novellas have posed problems for even the most basic taxonomies of literary criticism and publishing. Though the novella is defined...

... of catastrophe and chaos. But he gets to his real point when, discussing Manto’s stories of Partition, he finds in them not merely “state failure at the very inception of independent Indian administration” (83) but also attention to “the sorts of administrative practices required to curtail what tends...

... initiated a review of the nation's laws against sedition, staying ongoing legal proceedings and calling in particular for a reconsideration of Section 124a of the Indian Penal Code. First introduced by the jurist and colonial administrator Sir James Fitzjames Stephen in his 1870 revision of the code...

... purchase do the citizens of a nation have on each other? Austen argues that it is in fact impossible for any person to imagine the nation. Instead, she suggests, administrative agencies such as the British navy define individuals' obligations to the nation as a whole and the people within...

... tethered to the promise and limitations of nation-states. To alter that habit, contemporary fiction updates the novel's centuries-long preoccupation with city life. In fiction as in nonfiction reportage, massive conurbations appear to exceed the administrative purview of any given state and threaten...

... in their administration of populations. Fiction’s collaboration with political science takes shape as a counter discourse. Where social science privileges quantitative data, literature counters with the qual- ity of local knowledge. A good recent example is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2006 novel Half of a Yellow...

... account of the trial in History of British India that soon became the dominant reading of the Hastings affair: Mill suggests that even the notoriously excessive Burke did not go far enough in his analysis of the iniquities of the Hastings administration (5: 200-01). The similar responses of Godwin...

... and Walkowitz. Marx does this most significantly through his reading of the transnational circulation of images, narratives, and objects from the colonial peripheries of the British Empire, and through the modernist novel's intriguing response to the principles and praxes of colonial administration...

..., criticized British activities in India. Through selfish, corrupt administrative practices, Ball writes, "in Bengal an amount of suffering and debasement existed which probably was not equalled, and certainly not exceeded, in the slave-states of America" (qtd. in Chakravarty 46; cf. Herbert 158-59...

... the candidate and his supporters and then, in the spirit of petty retaliation that defined his candidacy and the first weeks of his presidency, toward his detractors in the “media.” In the earliest days of the administration, the phrase “alternative facts,” used by Trump's presidential counselor Kellyanne...

... literary policy making. She manages to convey the high interest, deep import, and sheer quantity of the cultural business UNESCO has transacted since 1945 without letting her narrative bog down in the minutiae of bureaucratic administration and procedure, a common hazard for less critically engaged...

... left hand” (189). Ezeulu mistakes the source of that power but not the power itself. Earlier, a court messenger, part of a notorious new class in the service of the colonial administration, makes a big show of bringing “out a very small book from his breast pocket and open[ing] it in the manner...

... histories of race, empire, law, and sovereignty” (37). It directly tackles the skepticism that scholars face from university administrators who question whether literary scholars do research at all. Nicolazzo shows that we acquire new knowledge by applying literary methods and names what she reads...

...; but Boodle and Buffy, their followers and families, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, are the born first-actors, managers, and leaders, and no others can appear on the scene for ever and ever. (191) Juxtaposed against the previous chapter’s scenes of poverty, despair, death...

... moment, “the administrator,” or again “a citizen.” At the risk of belaboring the spatial metaphor, the character in Nostromo is a jagged assembly of overlapping type phrases, just too varied and uneven to be “flat” but without the contiguity and change over time that would produce “roundness” or “depth...

... such as herself are "immediately taken into the Care of the Government," in England she is left "a poor desolate Girl without Friends, without Cloaths, without Help or Helper in the World" (7). In Defoe's England, poverty was considered a public nuisance, and welfare administration was left...

... decree. American politics and mass media expediently promote an anxiety that America, the last super-power of an imperial nature, has turned into the symbolic target of anti-colonial ~engeance.~This assessment in turn justifies the Federal Administration's insatiable search across...

... resonates right now. George W. Bush's administration has triumphantly reclaimed the notion of "American Empireran ideal abandoned for the less bullying "American Century" early in the last century. The Anarchy of Empire does not only define a field of historical study but will be vital to developing...

..., and it has gathered strength recently as one of the most rousing hashtags on social media, intended to unite us against the vast range of vicious acts performed by the Trump administration. For decades, resistance has also been the daily fare of literary and cultural studies, as critics have poured many...

... the terms of engagement that inform hstext, Davis is certainly justified in raising the subject. Finally, given that the discourses of race and gender are still tied up with law, civil rights, and the administration of justice, this book certainly should find its way into our law schools. Drawing...