...Gene Andrew Jarrett I examine the political value of The Wind Done Gone (2001), Alice Randall's parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), according to the 2001 court case SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Company . Houghton Mifflin's defense of Randall's novel from the Stephens...

... of butlers but a class that claims Stevens's labors and capac- ity for attachment. Stevens's "we" has numerous corollaries, in Ishiguro's later novels: Ryder and the electrician on the tram ("We would go on sitting there to- gether.. ." [Unconsoled 5351); Christopher Banks's conclusions about "those...

... Sino- Japanese War. The moment of breakdown occurs when the narrator, the English detective Christopher Banks, realizes that his taxi driver has taken him out of shanghai"^ British-controlled International Settlement (his boyhood home) into the bombed-out district of Chapei, where...

..., Economy 197-216). Ishiguro seems particularly suited to study as an exemplum of the contemporary, as English and Frow conceive it. He's a prize- winning writer of subtly serialized fictions, for both print and film formats, but also a creator of celebrity protagonists (Ryder in The Unco~zsoled,Banks...

... Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986 . Butler , Marilyn . Jane Austen and the War of Ideas . 1974. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987 . Clapham , John . The Bank of England: A History . Vol. II : 1797–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1966 . “Corn and Money.” Edinburgh Review vol...

..., with a reimaging of the urban community that, while still shot-through with the sense of loss and alienation that Tameson high- lights, is nevertheless a powerful and hopeful new imagining of the urban community. The Blind Bank Money isfreer than people...

... to the Restriction period (1797–1821) in British monetary history. The Restriction Act of 1797, triggered by diminishing gold reserves in the wake of massive government borrowing to finance the war with France, suspended the Bank of England’s right to make payments in gold (unless those payments were going...

... of various events, which arrive at a violent crescendo when a staged bank robbery becomes real, all so he might sustain a peculiar feeling of intensity. Critical responses to the novel divide on whether the narrator's increasingly strange enactments are driven by a phenomenological concern with authenticity...

... of value. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 Jane Austen Thomas Malthus David Ricardo political economy Bank Restriction Act interest Attuned to the social, moral, and financial implications of purchasing power—or its comparative lack—Jane Austen's novels have...

.... And the world of professional scholarship is as pertinent to this revelation as any other occupation. As teachers and writers we regularly find ourselves in the situation of Ishiguro's most trou- bled protagonists; say, Christopher Banks, whose crazed outbursts at the officials trying to help him find...

... . “Making Men and History: Achebe and the Politics of Revisionism.” Ed. Lindfors. 91 –100. Crowther , S.A. The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger . 1859 . Journals and Notices of the Native Missionaries Accompanying the Niger Expedition of 1857–59 . London: Dawsons, 1968 . Crowther...

... the determination of modern values in the Romantic period. The general trajectory of the three genres is this: money and credit grow more regular, with Bank of England notes in particular becoming “naturalized” and, as it were, invisible as works of fiction; economics turns into the first modern...

....” Significantly, however, the ten thousand dollars (which is literally reprinted into the pages of the novel) does not take the form of a “check”; it is instead a stock certificate representing Ruth Hall’s one hundred shares of stock in the Seton Bank, whose prima facie value is ten thousand dollars, or .5...

... , Herbert . “State-Tamperings with Money and Banks.” Westminster Review Jan . 1858 : 210 –32. Rpt. in Essays Scientific, Political, and Speculative. Vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton, 1907. 326–57. Vernon , John . Money and Fiction: Literary Realism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth...

..., and then Lee conscientiously asks different questions of certain databases, 1830–50, only to find that the color term most likely to appear with “slavery”—after “Black” and “white”—is “yellow,” while “scarlet” is as likely to appear with “bank” and “clock” as with “slavery” (68). Yet a critic cannot...

... of externality and reducibility. [T]here may come moments when Nature makes a mere bank a means toward a fateful result; and that is why I ask you to imagine this high bank crowned with trees, making an uneven wall for some quarter of a mile along the left side of Dorlcote Mill and the pleasant field...

... had she secured the necklace in a bank, and finally escapes punishment for a crime that she testifies to having committed. Bearing these disruptions in mind, it is difficult to sympathize with Lizzie when Camperdown reflects on how far her behavior deviates from that of most other women in her...

... the particles become coordinated, but it is nevertheless quite distinct from such uses of “entanglement” that would include, for example, two lovers becoming entangled with one another or the World Bank becoming entangled in the global economic system. Citing Patrick O'Donnell, Coale appropriates the word...

... side sinks softly away, like some tiny bay, and the water flows between, so clear, so wide, so shallow, that Lizzy, longing for adventure, is sure she could cross unwetted; king | the nineteenth-century novel of everyday life 465 now dashing through two sand-banks...

... of urbanisation” and frustrated with industrialization (137). With the rise of new middle-class professions in advertising, marketing, accounting, banking, and insurance, Americans were well aware of and ready to manipulate the impressions of others for financial gain—in other words, impression management lies...