... 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 Johnny next “bequeaths” a kiss for the absent “boofer lady” on her husband's cheek, this...

... Mailer’s The Deer Park (1955) and Advertisements for Myself (1959) synthesize publishing history and literary criticism, making the history Brier recovers much more complex than previously thought. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is commonly read—in modern criticism as well as in contemporary...

..., these works offer new insight into the psychological complexity of the immigrant debates and their broader global contexts. Multiculturalism becomes, for Mizruchi, a highly contradic- tory set of issues that are exemplified in advertisements from this period. She shows how advertisements served...

...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...

... advertises itself and, second, how even critiques of capital often hearken back to the Scottish Enlightenment texts that describe capital's virtues. The book may sometimes hesitate about what connects these “originary” texts to the present moment. But Reber's account of the aspirationally homeostatic feeling...

..., 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...

... against the increasingly commercialized aesthetic sensibilities of the bourgeoisie—was now dead, commodified just like wallpaper and pop music. We have all had analogous moments. Years ago in Madrid, I saw a placard advertising Burger King's new salad menu; it read: “Verde que te quiero verde” (Green, how...

... production. In the case of "Negro head tobacco, the social relations of pro- duction are exposed and indeed 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...

... 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...

... 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 interesting in the book’s final chapter, where the “unequivocal celebration...

... 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...

... check postings for their moral and legal propriety as well as searching ceaselessly for new capital opportunities for advertising and targeting, such social media entrepreneurs have little interest in the development of autobiographical narratives in the conventional sense of that narrative form, much...

... 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...

... 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...