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Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness in Middlemarch

Jill Galvan
Novel (2021) 54 (2): 189–209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9004459
Published: 01 August 2021
... perceptual and affective (sensual as well as emotional) impact. Moreover, she is attentive to judgments of beauty. She is interested in how those judgments operate both within the text and in the reader's interaction with her work. Middlemarch 's aesthetics is substantially comparative—the novel displays...
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Finding the Center: Mrs Dalloway 's Bureaucrats and State Centralization

Marius Hentea
Novel (2022) 55 (2): 283–304.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9785025
Published: 01 August 2022
... public-private division with a marked preference for the richness and beauty of private life. This article argues that Woolf, no stranger to the civil service through her family and personal networks, had a more strained and ambivalent response to bureaucracy as an idea and government form. A close...
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Hogarth's Networks and the Eighteenth-Century “Graphic” Novel

Sean Silver
Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-10562853
Published: 01 August 2023
... characteristic of the “middling sort.” Its exemplary author is William Hogarth, whose Marriage A‐la‐Mode offers a signal instance of the forms of network‐style visualization seeking to make sense of the urban everyday, and whose Analysis of Beauty includes a surprisingly thorough account of the network‐like...
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Hermits, Stoics, and Hysterics: Turkish Democracy and the Female Bildungsroman

Meltem Gürle
Novel (2014) 47 (1): 90–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2414084
Published: 01 May 2014
... in the symbolical realm. Focusing on the femininity of the “eternally ill” “Beautiful Soul” (in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ) and the social masculinism of the bildungsroman, this essay refers to the elaboration of the same theme by Hegel and Lacan and traces variations of this neurotic character in the Turkish novel...
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Henry James and Stupidity

Matthew Sussman
Novel (2015) 48 (1): 45–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2860325
Published: 01 May 2015
..., or use. The moral purity of stupidity explains why, in the later works, James values the sexually innocent and the willfully naive, providing a key to solving some of his more puzzling love plots; aesthetically, it accounts for his fascination with symbols and inanimate objects, rendered beautiful...
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Figure 5. “The eye . . . viewing a row of letters.” Detail from Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty (plate 1, figure 14). Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

“The eye . . . viewing a row of letters.” Detail from Hogarth, Analysis of...

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Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 5. “The eye . . . viewing a row of letters.” Detail from Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty (plate 1, figure 14). Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. More
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Figure 4. “The trunk of a figure cast in soft wax.” Detail from Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty (plate 1, figure 2). Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

“The trunk of a figure cast in soft wax.” Detail from Hogarth, Analysis of...

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Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 4. “The trunk of a figure cast in soft wax.” Detail from Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty (plate 1, figure 2). Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. More
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Modernism's Love Objects

Michael Trask
Novel (2013) 46 (1): 144–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2019173
Published: 01 May 2013
...Michael Trask GOBLE MARK , Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life ( New York : Columbia UP , 2010 ), pp. 392 , cloth, $40.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Modernism’s Love Objects MARK GOBLE, Beautiful Circuits...
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Ian McEwan’s Saturday and the Aesthetics of Prose

PEGGY A. KNAPP
Novel (2007) 41 (1): 121–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.041010121
Published: 01 May 2007
... , Denis . Speaking of Beauty . New Haven: Yale UP, 2003 . Eagleton , Terry . The Ideology of the Aesthetic . Oxford: Blackwell, 1990 . Eliot , George . Middlemarch . 1871 –72. Ed. Rosemary Ashton. London: Penguin, 1994 . Gadamer , Hans-Georg . Truth and Method . 1960...
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The Make-Up of Jean Rhys’s Fiction

RISHONA ZIMRING
Novel (2000) 33 (2): 212–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1346080
Published: 01 August 2000
... . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995 . Flugel , J.C. The Psychology of Clothes . London: Hogarth, 1966 . Foster , Hal . Compulsive Beauty . Cambridge: MIT P, 1993 . Freeman , Barbara Claire . The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women’s Fiction . Berkeley: U of California P...
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Trophy Hunters: War Writing in the Twentieth Century

Marina MacKay
Novel (2021) 54 (1): 136–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8868905
Published: 01 May 2021
...Marina MacKay Marian Eide , Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature ( Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2019 ), pp. 304 , paper, $39.50 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 “Need I say that there is nothing so romantic as war?” Wyndham...
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The Color of His Hair: Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraits of the Historical Jesus

Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Novel (2009) 42 (1): 109–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2008-006
Published: 01 May 2009
..., an “aquiline nose,” and “thin” lips. Judah has a “low and broad” forehead, a “long” nose with “expanded nostrils,” a large upper lip, a “round chin,” and “oval cheeks.” Messala, “severe and chaste,” is beautiful in a Roman way; Judah, “rich and voluptuous,” has the “beauty peculiar to his race” (80, 81...
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Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in The Ambassadors and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

John Attridge
Novel (2020) 53 (1): 37–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8139303
Published: 01 May 2020
...”) ( Schiller 55 ). “Die schöne Kultur”—“education through beauty”—will restore harmony among the modern individual's divided faculties ( Schiller 63–64 ). Healing the inner separation of powers will also enable the revivification of the state, since the atomized modern “ranks and occupations” will now...
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Zones of Occult Instability: The Birth of the Novel in Africa

Jennifer Wenzel
Novel (2021) 54 (3): 335–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9353730
Published: 01 November 2021
..., between literature and nonliterature and so forth are not laid up in heaven. —Bakhtin It is a very beautiful thing when a nation has books which have been crammed full of their story. —Sekese What distinguishes the novel, writes Mikhail Bakhtin, is that “the forces that define...
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Face, Figure, Physiognomics: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Moving Image

SCOTT J. JUENGEL
Novel (2000) 33 (3): 353–376.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1346169
Published: 01 November 2000
... historical occasion for these remarks is Greta Garbo's 1933 film, Queen Chris- tina, a production that for Barthes marks the "fragile moment when the cinema is about to draw an existential from an essential beauty, when the archetype leans towards the fascination of mortal faces" (57...
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On Laughter, the Grotesque, and the South African Transition: Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying

RITA BARNARD
Novel (2004) 37 (3): 277–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.037030277
Published: 01 November 2004
... Wyk , Johan . “Catastrophe and Beauty: Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda’s Novel of the Transition.” Literator 18 ( 1997 ): 79 –90. Viljoen , Hein . “Let the Carnival Begin—A Modest Proposal.” Literator 1 ( 1993 ): 3 –5. On Laughter, the Grotesque, and the South...
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Horizons of the Visible

DANIEL NOVAK
Novel (2000) 34 (1): 123–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1346142
Published: 01 May 2000
... particles, she analyzes the paradox of "dust" in Victorian economies of seeing, where it is at once a dan- gerous and supplemental threat to life and beauty, as well as the condition of possibility for both life and sublime aesthetic effects. Moving from the barely visible to the invisible, Flint...
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Suspicious Methods

Chloë Kitzinger
Novel (2024) 57 (2): 268–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-11186582
Published: 01 August 2024
...” in the moment of her suicide, framing her own beauty as a subjective question of sensuous appetite, Tolstoy insists on its objective validity: Anna captivates everyone who looks at her. The experience of such beauty “helps convince us (those of us who doubt it) that we hold in common with other people...
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Disenchanting China: Orientalism and the Aesthetics of Reason in the English Novel

EUGENIA ZUROSKI
Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 254–271.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.038020254
Published: 01 November 2005
... , Edmund . A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful . Ed. Adam Phillips. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990 . Burney , Fanny . Evelina . Ed. Edward A. Bloom Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982 . Chambers , William . A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening...
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Contributors

Novel (2013) 46 (3): v–vi.
Published: 01 November 2013
... University. She is the author of Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (2004) and Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (2013).  JOHN RICHETTI is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored, most...
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