... functions. In The Ambassadors , this withdrawal responds to the inherent maximalism of the novel's primary antagonist, advertising. The Ambassadors reveals advertising as a form of representation uninterested in the material object. Against advertising's abstraction, the novel uses opaque, empty style to...

... distribution regimes, and the careers of dramatizers, directors, and stars. Focusing on the early twenty-first century adaptations of Jane Austen's novels, I argue here that the differing ways print and filmic media are packaged, advertised, and sold or exhibited to potential cultural consumers creates and...

... their American misreaders, reimagining social nightmares as pleasant fantasies. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Charles Dickens George Du Maurier advertising sensationalism reception As feminist criticism has stressed, Victorian fiction often seems so narrowly focused on...

... Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place (1956), pfister | the novel in contemporary mass culture 493 and Norman Mailer’s The Deer Park (1955) and Advertisements for Myself (1959...

... advertisements from this period. She shows how advertisements served as a site that staged some of the most fundamental cultural conflicts: the tension between the corporate culture that was fueled by cheap labor and the workforce that was suffering from falling wages and a decrease in the standard of...

...R. BRANDON KERSHNER GARRY LEONARD, Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 252 + xii, cloth, $ 49.95. JOSEPH VALENTE, ed. Quare Joyce (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 297, cloth, $47.50, paper, $19.95...

... to global significance. The book's transnational archive is predominantly “hemispheric,” focusing on US and Latin American films, texts, and advertising campaigns, mostly from the last twenty years. Planetary ecological discourse often designates the scene of the “global culture” in the title. Not...

..., editorials, advertisements, and 1930s research on workers' reading habits, Smith reconstructs an historical reader-a white, often immigrant, working-class man-for whom detective fiction was less about crime and detection than about "the hard-boiled private eye's struggles for autonomy at work, his...

... so many advertisements. Heart of Darkness, Georg Simmel, flânerie, adrenaline, Isa- dora Duncan—the reader glimpses these fragments of speed culture over and over again, Novel: A Forum on Fiction 44:2  © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 294 novel | summer 2011 sometimes at a great distance...

...-help therapy”; “intensely personal”; “spiritualized”; and “uplifting and transformative” (10, 11, 85, 89). These readers love reading like they love rugs advertised in the Sundance catalog—they love reading because it is advertised in the Sundance catalog (227–29, 252). Things really get...

... celebrated in a tobacco that is named for the slaves who pick and process it. Like the name "Negro head," early advertise- ments for tobacco, including the 600 largely British "tobacco cards" (small paper advertisements) in the George Arents, Jr. Col1ection,lo reveal the ubiquity of Africans, African...

... with other histories--of affect and citizenship, manhood and na- tionhood, emotion and aesthetics, to name three. In Chapter 6, for instance, Merish cogently dissects the political meanings of cigars and advertisements for them; she elaborates on how sentimentalism gets extended to both...

... treatise in postcolonial theory (comparable to Rukmini Bhaya Nair's Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference [2002]) and South Asian studies (comparable to William Mazzarella's Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India [2003]) as it is a valuable addition to...

... read his pang thro’ each transparent vein,” an anonymous poet declared of Stubbs’s Startled Horse in 1763, “Thro’ that stretched nostril see each feeling fly” Morning( Advertiser). Stubbs’s working decades correspond exactly to those that saw Armstrong’s “maturation” of “the novel,” from...

... Hébert marvels that the author of Le manoir mystérieux, whose name he declares 1 Le manoir mystérieux appeared in Le nouveau monde in daily installments between October 20 and December 14, 1880. According to advertisements that appeared in Le nouveau monde begin- ning in March 1881...

... media also rely on very complex web-based mediation including the entrepreneur, technological innovators, investors, censors, and advertisers, but their indispensable roles have far less to do with the actual message than publishing has in its involvement in the content of the novel. Whereas it may take...

... as Richard Menke’s Telegraphic Realism and Sara Thornton’s Advertising, Subjectivity, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, both of which stress the novel’s formal relationship to other media. Rubery’s research suggests that Vic- torian fiction participates in debates regarding what constitutes...

... on African Ameri- can intellectuals must have been significant. See, in particular, “Italy’s Predicament,” which appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1896. In this collection of excerpts from other major newspapers of the day, Boston African Americans (perhaps including Hopkins...

... Richard Ellmann's 1959 biography. Still, according to Ellmann, Sylvia Beach claimed that Joyce could draw a crowd of observers while eating in restaurants in 1922 (532). Furthermore, as Aaron Jaffe notes, Ulysses itself was well known enough to be used to advertise 'The Wasteland" in a...