... to “find your voice” through the stylistic development of what I am calling “vernacular anglophone realism.” The turn to the non-anglophone vernacular continues the postwar tradition of ethnic ventriloquism for a mainly bourgeois Western audience but also supplements a new non-Western, middle-class...

... and sustains the millennial Jane Austen mania. Adapting Austen's narratives more freely than did the 1990s versions, these films hope to capture the same crossover, multigenerational, mixed-sex audience yet also seek to market Austen for a new mass cohort of teenaged girls. Updating the stars' images...

...Alicia Williams Abstract Whence the “dear reader”—and to where? This essay proposes that George Eliot's reformulation of nineteenth-century conventions for addressing reading audiences documents a response to the emergence of Britain's first mass reading public. Eliot inherits a propensity...

...; his mode of address to his former “master”; his attention to the collapse of the line separating public from private life in the South—all of these contributed to Douglass's refiguring of the relationship between his authorial and oratorical personae and his audiences. Douglass does not simply exploit...

... audiences and English novelists presented an exaggerated version of a gap between readers and authors that an emerging consumerist culture was making apparent throughout the transatlantic world. Understanding this broader context helps explain why the late works of both Dickens and Du Maurier seem to echo...

... Raj Anand, Virginia Woolf, and, later, Zadie Smith respond to social and political disintegration by insisting upon fiction's capacity to gather together a disparate audience; and they suggest how gatherings afford an unbounded, eventual, and non-sovereign arrangement of collective life within...

... and also some of the most central aspects of our relationship with narratives whose outcomes we care intensely about even though our caring cannot affect those outcomes. Fictional characters are especially immune to the exercise of a reader's or audience's will, so Newcomb's problem is particularly...

... (1859), known for its famous statement of realist principles and its depiction of heroic common people set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Though the novel takes place in the English countryside, the narrator invokes a presumed audience who differ profoundly from the novel's peasant...

... by contemporary authors such as Frances Hodgson Burnett, who did not write for an age-leveled audience, reveals how Henry James constructs a notion of what it means to be an adult and, by extension, what it means to write for adults. In his work, “the adult” is constituted, counterintuitively, through the gaze...

... of author-audience relationships” (x). The key word in this formulation may be resources , that is, those elements that go into the making of specific narratives, operating as members of specific genres with accompanying specific readerly expectations, directed at specific audiences who respond in variable...

... . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Mikado realism reference queer Orientalism It is a commonplace among Savoyards that The Mikado is about England, not Japan: the joke was that what seemed utterly remote from the audience was in fact all about themselves. But if you actually...

... in a chameleonic mantle labeled “the right side of history”—as though the future's concerns are obvious and knowable. It's difficult to avoid this trap: many of the actions we take—from creating art to casting a ballot—ask us to guess how we will be measured by the audience of the future. To act on behalf...

...) of Markandaya’s commitment to India, her refusal—after her first and most famous novel—to consistently inhabit the space of the “native expert writing about her homeland” for a global audience, and you have a writer of formidable talent who lost her place in the roster of criti- cally acclaimed Indian...

... the newspaper less as a documentary source than as a parallel set of conventions. The argu- ment of his book is, first, that the nineteenth century pioneered the modern concept of news as it transformed the newspaper into a commercial mass medium addressed to a national audience, and second, that the novel...

... these natural philosophers, Fielding also seeks to contrast the probabilistic belief of his audience—as well as the transparent, consensual methods he uses to earn it—with the “vulgar” super- stition attributed to audiences manipulated by the impostures of contemporary forms of spectacular entertainment...

... making clear what an international audience has to learn from this body of literature. To these ends, the book seeks to change the global conversation on African literature in two ways: it seeks to expand the canon of African novels to include a genre read more widely by Africans themselves than the more...

... traditionally fostered dialogue, consensus, and harmony between individual desire and personal fulfill- ment and the communal good. The authors' consideration of King's seeof audience-and his relationship to lus audience-points to this inclusiveness, and is another real strength of this book. King...

..., astounded London audiences with its stu- pendous stage effects. In 1862, the painter James Whistler displayed a virtuoso painting of his Irish mistress Jo Hiffernan. Refused by the Royal Academy, it was initially titled The Woman in White when shown—to much astonishment—at a private London gallery...

... and the yawn in serial fiction by Anthony Trollope and Patrick O'Brian (whose Master and Commander is now reaching a broader audience), the oscillation between engagement and boredom (all that recapitula- tion, mid series, for the sake of the uninitiated reader). In a chapter coda on e-mail Warhol...

... of making money off rich tourists who visit the monument. Audiences consuming South Asia will recognize the scene from Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), a film celebrating the creative optimism of the slum-dweller as a new stereotype affixing South Asia in the global imaginary. Such cultural...