... 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...

... 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) synthesize publishing history and literary criticism, making the history...

... 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...

..., Nancy Armstrong's hypothesis will be put to the test: the novel, she has argued, “was not made to reproduce the status quo.” © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Anonymous . Morning Advertiser . No. 993 , 1 April 1797 . ———. New London Magazine . Vol. 4 , No. 6 (June), 1788...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... . Horvitz Deborah . “Hysteria and Trauma in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self.” African American Review 33 . 2 ( 1999 ): 245 – 60 . “Italy's Predicament.” Boston Daily Advertiser 7 March 1896 . James William . “The Hidden Self.” Scribner's Magazine 7 . 3...

... cultural value of foreign objects, then, shared a venue with news reporting on that same topic: the novel appeared on the final page alongside the “commercial bulletin” that enumerated the currency exchange rates and commodity prices in foreign trading centers and advertised imported goods as well as books...