...Stacey Margolis This essay investigates an early instance of “network theory” in order to argue that such theories did not, as most scholars suggest, emerge exclusively in the digital age. Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn (1799–1800) attempts to theorize the information networks of the early...

..., Salem Chapel Baffled by the web of circumstances entangling his staid clerical existence with the harried life of a poor seamstress, Arthur Vincent, the male protagonist of Marga- ret Oliphant’s Salem Chapel (1863), asks himself the questions above, only to have them repeated—never...

..., 1959 . Harris , Mason . “Arthur’s Misuse of the Imagination: Sentimental Benevolence and Wordsworthian Realism in Adam Bede.” English Studies in Canada 4 ( 1978 ): 41 –59. Harris , Mason . “Infanticide and Respectability: Hetty Sorrel as Abandoned Child in Adam Bede.” English Studies...

... on the side of accountability. The outcomes of the novel's major plot points-Adam's guilt about his father's death, Arthur's carelessness with Hetty, and Hetty's murder of her child-all illustrate one of the novel's underlying premises: people eventually pay for their wrongdoing. Despite its...

... of the social. In Dorrit, Stewart argues, the buried story of Arthur Clennam’s biological mother exerts an irresistible force on the novel’s closure, since the plot that links Arthur and Amy and 134 NOVEL | SPRING 2012 sends them into the world determined to do good cannot redeem...

... of poverty that attends bankruptcy, for which the title character is the repository; the shame of wealth that follows upon that poverty; and the shame of memory itself, which finds concrete form in the representation of debt. The personalities of the major characters, including Little Dorrit, Arthur...

...PHILIP GOULD ARTHUR RISS, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), pp. 246, cloth, $80.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Historicizing Personhood ARTHUR ~SS,Race, Slavery, and Liberalism...

... fascinating, bizarre, depressingly racist 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket were placed at its center? Such is the gambit of Cindy Weinstein's absorbing and imaginative new study, Time, Tense, and American Literature . For Weinstein, Pym's trip to the South Pole represents...

..., for example, which of course includes Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Arthur Mervyn, the “laboratory of char- acter that was Philadelphia” (28) revealed the failings of its citizens to uphold republican and humanitarian standards of behavior. One of the most intriguing features of Philadelphia Stories...

... is constructed so that the omniscient narrator, and the reader who has access to his narration, always understands a layer beyond what the characters perceive in their own motives. But this state of half-knowledge also appears as an internal condition within the psyche, as in the scene in which Arthur...

... body” (41). In discussions of novels such as Leonora Sansay's Secret History , Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee , and Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn and Edgar Huntly , Silyn Roberts argues that what differentiates the American from the British gothic is the way that its “tropes...

..., Technology, and Economic Growth . Ed. A. E. Musson. London: Methuen, 1972 . 148 -67. Conrad , Joseph . Collected Letters . Ed. Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies. 9 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983-2007 . Doyle , Arthur Conan . The Complete Sherlock Holmes . 2 vols. New York...

...Douglas Mao McCREA BARRY , In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust ( New York : Columbia UP , 2011 ), pp. 265 , paper, $27.50 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Conan Doyle Arthur...

...://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/lapur&CISOPT R=25293&REC=7&CISOSHOW=18201 >. Brown , Charles Brockden . Arthur Mervyn; Memoirs of the Year 1793 . 1799/1800. New York: Holt, 1962 . Brown , Charles Brockden . “Death of Cicero.” Philadelphia: H. Maxwell. 1799. Online...

...). The fourth chapter argues that Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes should be re- garded as an "imperial immune system," ridding England of "microbes"-those who oppose "the imperial body": foreigners, criminals, the lower classes, women; in short, anyone who poses a threat to respectability...

... both foreign “intruders” and the aristocracy, as in Gaskell’s Cranford and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone (in which the dark-skinned suspects serve as foils for the home-grown villain) and Little Dorrit (in which 138 NOVEL | SPRING 2012 Arthur Clennam’s dubious involvement...

... or a crowd to stand for public opinion. The first and the third chapters use Brown's Arthur Mervyn (1799) and Hawthorne's Legends of the Province-House (1838–39) to model a theory of networks defined by contagion and curses and so exercising invisible pressure on the public. The second chapter, focusing...

... . Gilbert R. A. “Waite, Arthur Edward (1857–1942).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Online ed. 2004 < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53860 > (accessed 10 March 2011) . Guerard Albert J. Conrad the Novelist . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1962 . James Henry...

... hones Emily's natural incredulity (refusal of credulity) into a discrimination that can sift through uncertainties, even under the pressure of suspense, to distinguish what Arthur Young might call “real” causation, necessity, and justice. It is conventional to identify in a novel like Udolpho...

.... Rolf , Tiedemann . Trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen. New York: Columbia UP, 1991 . 241 -75. Arthur , Christopher J . The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital . Leiden: Brill, 2002 . Balibar , Étienne . Interview. Lukács after Communism: Interviews with Contemporary Intellectuals...