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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 290–296.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Margaret Cohen From Ian Watt's reading of Robinson Crusoe , novel critics valuing realism as the highest expression of the form have tried to domesticate adventure fiction and the rambling dispositions of its protagonists. In contrast, this essay argues that such rambling explores a foundational...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 61–78.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., and the March of Intellect . Durham: Duke UP, 2001 . Riley , Denise . “Am I That Name?”: Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988 . Trollope , Frances . The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy . London: Henry Colburn...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 165–185.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Kevin Seidel By grappling with secular and religious approaches to Defoe's fiction, this essay describes the theory of fiction that Defoe writes his way toward during the course of his three-book Crusoe novel, which includes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2010
...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...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 524–530.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in defining the “failed state” as a more or less normative condition in much of the world. It proposes that “the nation” has been subordinated to global logic of management both longer and more effectively than is often supposed and that formally adventurous novels have played a part in that subordination...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 11–23.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kent Puckett This essay asks why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would feature something as practically political as a caucus. After nearly drowning in Alice's tears, the Dodo suggests to her and other animals “that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.” In order to figure out what...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 402–420.
Published: 01 November 2006
...CHRISTINA LUPTON Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited The Adventures of a Cork-Screw: in Which, under the Pleasing Method of a Romance, the Vices, Follies and Manners of this present Age Are Exhibited and Satirically Delineated . London: n.p., 1775 . “The Adventures...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the archive, and reimagines
what constitutes the novel. It is, finally, Cohen’s answer to Franco Moretti’s mandate for a
“longer, larger, and deeper” (x) field of literary study, one that offers the most suggestive
possibilities for novel theory through a “lens of adventure” (Cohen 13).
Cohen’s book...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 461–465.
Published: 01 November 2019
... examines the “first Jamaican novel,” Montgomery; or, The West-Indian Adventurer (1812–13), in the context of its publication in three volumes at the newspaper offices of the Kingston Chronicle . Even if the novel's anonymous author was “probably a Scotchman” like his protagonist, advertisements...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 May 2015
... be noted is the extent to which South Pacific Narratives is marred on virtually every page by errors or poorly-constructed sentences. Problems range from spelling mistakes, such as the “duel [ sic ] theme” apparently present in London's Adventure (151), to the misuse of possessive apostrophes (142, 143...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 August 2020
... experience” (14). Indeed, durational ethics and durational aesthetics seem to derive their charisma from the way that they internalize the features of romance: adventure, affective intensity, digression. Instead of belonging to the romance plot, such features now attach themselves in the eighteenth-century...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 449–466.
Published: 01 November 2016
...,” after which no real action is possible. However, even this pretense is soon abandoned, and Holmes is corporeally brought back to life in “The Empty House,” and thereafter Holmes is more active than ever (see “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist,” 526). Works Cited Althusser Louis...
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 133–134.
Published: 01 May 2005
... of
domesticity. The English detective can indeed be seen to provide domestic policing: he
(usually he, at least) polices the home, protecting private property, and as in a number of the
stories in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, protecting women from the dangers of the pa-
triarchal home...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 385–392.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., or at least with a very dull one” (247). The ancient Greek novels were blithely consigned to the category of romance, as though the adventures they recounted were on a par with Treasure Island (though why that, even if true, should count against them, begs an answer). In the twentieth century, Mikhail...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 167–174.
Published: 01 August 2009
... growth of the market itself. The novel holds onto the adventure story,
Moretti suggests, because this premodern chronotope provides a model as well as
the motor for the opportunistic expansion of capitalism.
Roberto Schwarz, the Brazilian theorist responsible for the influential concept...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 128–131.
Published: 01 May 2024
...). The narrative fragment of the ad, like a number in a series, is a frozen moment in time, its past and future temporarily suspended. Like some free-ranging Victorian ancestor of Schrödinger's cat, that tabby might show up none the worse for its adventures, but then again, it might not. Chapter 2 moves...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and whether its narrative drives toward any form of closure or is at core suspended in an unstable, open state. Reading Kim as at least in part an adventure tale, then, accounts both for the apparent aimlessness of its episodic structure and for the fact that Kim exists in an extended adolescence...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 407–411.
Published: 01 November 2000
... the last ten years or so has represented the denizens of late-
Victorian Britain as a singularly anxious people. Scholars such as Patrick Brantlinger
have drawn our attention to the emergence of gothic tales in situations that once required
glorious imperial adventures; others, among them Thomas...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 316–318.
Published: 01 November 2002
... return of the white colo-
nial daughter to the "cultural history known as the English literary tradition" (133).
Examining African American women writers in two early chapters entitled
"Adventures of the Magic Black Daughter" and "Further Adventures of the Magic Black
Daughter," Rody...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 August 2011
... Association , no. 170 ( 1992 ): 113 – 25 . DiBattista Maria McDiarmid Lucy . High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889–1939 . New York : Oxford UP , 1996 . Eliot T. S. “Introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Mark Twain . Bloom's Modern Critical Views...
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