...MADHU DUBEY JENNY SHARPE, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Lives (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003), pp. 187. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Not Quite Freedom: Leveraging Agency in Slave Women's Narratives JENNY...

... : U of Chicago P , 1998 . Matter, Mind, and Agency in the Long Eighteenth Century JONATHAN KRAMNICK, Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2010), pp. 307, paper, $24.95. How do we know that other people have minds? It is arguable...

... . . . ) that is capable of producing self-extinction through the manipulation of its environment.” The physical parameters of this environment matter not at all to him. 8 The most influential attempt to rethink modernity in the light of our geologic agency remains that of Dipesh Chakrabarty . Timothy Morton has...

...Madigan Haley Abstract This article examines how certain works of global fiction have conceived of their ethical and political agency through the form and act of gathering. Discussions of the global novel's relationship to collective life have often adapted the ideas of Benedict Anderson in order...

... human right: the right to mobility. It starts by explaining how this right is articulated in the early modern period at the international geopolitical scale as the freedom of navigation. It then links the freedom of the seas to the empowered agency of Crusoe and fellow mariners across the history...

... of the permeation and power of life-interest in defining the contemporary imagination of sovereignty, domination, and agency. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 microeconomics sovereignty biopolitics gamification contemporary literature Since the late 1990s in North America and Britain, the field...

...—Burney posits an ethics of the novel that treats matters of chance and modes of depleted agency as central aspects of the human condition rather than as markers of moral or aesthetic failure. Setting Burney's texts within ascendant modes of economy and finance in the eighteenth century, the article...

... theory implies that overwhelming experience halts thought and action, I argue that black radical aesthetics reveals how overwhelming experience engenders agency. © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Armstrong Nancy . “The Future In and Of the Novel.” Novel 44...

... specialized language, closed social spaces, and charismatic leadership—has its origins in antitotalitarian political science, fiction, sociology, and psychology. Mitchell and Haruki Murakami (discussed briefly) both question how this Cold War legacy has shaped our understandings of individual agency, and both...

... of a realist aesthetics stages a critique of key assumptions of the narratives of emergency, which place the victims in an overly determined condition where meaningful action is impossible. The works of Mda, Farah, and Akpan restore historical agency to characters who experience extreme insecurity and provoke...

... or supernatural agency over Crane's fictional terrain. Accounting for these in terms of fairly conventional modes of realism and naturalism, critics often presume that Crane's plotting works to literalize clichés of common speech and thus to reveal, in a manner of action, social significance latent in a manner...

...Elaine Hadley Reform Acts does not simply catalog the Victorians' senses of social agency but also enacts a prestructuralist method of intentionality. Even though this study usefully gives credence to dominant contemporary discourses (Chartist, Whig, Tory, Christian Socialist), even though...

...JAMES V. CATANO KATHLEEN GREGORY KLEIN, ed. Diversity and Detective Fiction (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999), pp. 262, cloth, $51.95, paper, $25.95. PRISCILLA L. WALTON AND MANINA JONES. Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition...

...ROXANN WHEELER SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN, Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), pp. 424 + ill, cloth, $59.95, paper, $20.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Another Eighteenth Century SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN...

..., both the religious and secular contexts for reading female agency and subjectivity. I wonder, for example, in those moments where the analysis considers “consent” as a matter informing female agency, whether liberal—or legal, or even financial—contexts for the sentimental novel can be entirely set...

... formation. In this impressive first book, Jones is interested in a “crisis of agency” that she sees both explicitly within the novels and in the relationship of text and reader. This same crisis, she argues, is mirrored in the impulses that shape our scholarly understanding of Victorian novels...

... in Persuasion leads to a surprising vision of nation that foregrounds government bureaucracies and agencies. In Persuasion, Austen raises the question of nation as an epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical problem: how do we know we are part of a nation? How do we feel our national- ity? And what...

... their respective lacunae is Wenzel's new materialist tendency to view agencies as horizontally distributed across the ontological spectrum: “What happens to narrative when setting becomes character, plot becomes setting, objects become subjects, and part becomes whole?” she asks (19). Wenzel is aware that readings...

... of the vagrant, Nicolazzo clarifies how vagrancy resists characteristics of identity such as “interiority, agency, consistency across time, legal personhood, singularity, subjectivity” (13). Moreover, centering the significance of her literary method of analysis, she considers “vagrant” a “hermeneutic...

... are rife with contradictory claims about the relationshp between history and individual agency; however, these contradictions should not be read as aes- thetic failure or ideological weakness on the part of their authors. Rather, these authors are interested in pointing out the limitations...