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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 227–250.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the quantity of life it produces—a problem that the disciplinary logic and contractual formations of earlier domestic fiction were never designed to solve—Dickens's novels of life and death in the city find a new impetus for literary production. We might call this the biopolitical imagination. © 2010...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 162–179.
Published: 01 August 2024
... a biopolitical tool of the state, seen as a positive good in its spur to labor, as well as a central topos of an emerging modernist style of fiction that reflects, draws attention to, and critiques those biopolitical mechanisms. Notwithstanding his criticisms of a society that leaves artists hungry, Gissing...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Mario Ortiz-Robles Thomas Hardy's naturalism offers a view of human affairs based on probable outcomes that makes visible the biopolitical realignments of society at the end of the nineteenth century. In this essay, the figure of the animal in Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) acts as a test case...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 132–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of emancipation take him to propose a biological substratum as the irreducible site of a political affirmation. Thus Arguedas provides a thoroughly developed notion of positive biopolitics that has the potential to ground other engagements of colonial voices with the larger sphere of political domination. ©...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
... bears out in its plot an indictment of law's inherent abjections and an interrogation of the value of life that seem to precociously articulate the consensus of today's hegemonic biopolitical theory: that human institutions tend inexorably to subjugate humanity itself. Yet the form of the novel develops...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 210–225.
Published: 01 August 2018
...-interest should be understood as an emergent form of biopolitical organization, one in which sovereign power operates by compelling individual agential choices in relation to the preservation of life. In conclusion, I turn to the popular “ticking-time-bomb” torture scenario in order to elucidate something...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Sam Alexander This article proposes that the narratological problem of character in Joyce's Ulysses is inseparable from the biopolitical problem of population. More important than the presentation or ontological status of any individual character in Joyce's novel is the sheer number of characters...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007 . D(NA) Coding the Ethnic:
Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex
Patricia E. Chu
My essay is drawn from a longer project on the biopolitics of the ethnic novel.
In writing about the twenty-first...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 437–441.
Published: 01 November 2024
...” and instead serve as a metonym for the biopolitical management of populations (93). Chapter 4 traces the uses and limits of the tramp narrative's conventions for social critique by showing its influence on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939), arguing that Steinbeck draws on long-standing affordances...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 380–384.
Published: 01 August 2016
...-century materials of the book's final two chapters, The Scarlet Letter and Clotel , respectively, Silyn Roberts reads Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Wells Brown as authors who resist a biopolitical shift in midcentury political power by registering the subversive flow of a Foucauldian “population...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 November 2018
... on the Floss , slow progressive or gradualist time comes abruptly to a close in the catastrophe of the countryside. Employing models of biopolitics, Hensley then shows how sensation fiction actively mediated a dialectic of abstraction and abandonment, those who count in the polis and those who do not. Part 2...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 24–42.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Hawthorne: The Poetics of Enchantment . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1977 . Esposito Roberto . Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy . Trans. Campbell Timothy . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2008 . Ferguson Adam . An Essay on the History of Civil Society . Ed. Oz-Salzberger Famoa...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 August 2014
...: The Bildungsroman in European Culture . London : Verso , 2000 . Morton Peter . The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860–1900 . London : Unwin , 1984 . Pearson Karl . The Grammar of Science . London : Black , 1900 . Rancière Jacques . “Biopolitics...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
...). Even the more sympathetic white novelist and lawyer Albion Tourgée
echoed the idea when he lamented that postbellum African Americans have “no
family tree” (321).
These two formulations register the fact that kinlessness was a pivotal modern
event, a biopolitical fracture designed to separate...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 109–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that promised to photographically “bag” animals at the moment of their escape), Traisnel moves through Audubon's ornithological still life drawings, Cooper's speculative settler land management techniques in The Prairie , Poe's representation of decryption as a mode of biopolitical detection in “Murders...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 155–158.
Published: 01 May 2015
... than rigorously socialistic. The final chapter, “Free Love, Free Print: Sex Radicalism, Censorship, and the Biopolitical Turn,” notes that sex radicalism was the center of a “waning, yet enduring radical cause of free print” that had to cope with censorship (258). Two novels of 1895, Grant Allen's...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2014
... political sovereignty and the power over life and death has
developed into the biopolitical power of the modern nation-state to decide a ‘‘state
of exception epitomized by the Nazi concentration camps, in which the indi-
vidual is reduced to a form of ‘‘bare life a mere biological existence without legal...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 334–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... in any simple sense, but
rather it is concerned with improving the government of self and others. De Boever thus
situates his own project within the larger, incomplete one of writing the history of the novel
as a form that ‘‘both participate[s] in governmental biopolitics and provide[s] a critique...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
... human life. In this way, Farah's portrayal of the blurred lines between life and death becomes a particularly vivid illustration of concepts that have emerged within global conversations about “biopolitics.” In particular, Sweet and Sour Milk depicts a world conditioned by the exercise of what Achille...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 330–333.
Published: 01 August 2014
... biopolitical imagination,
fraught with anxieties about cultural purity and degeneration. Because the white woman’s
reproductive body functioned as ‘‘guarantor’’ of the collective health of the people (8), the
prospect of the despoilment of her womb by the black male (and its obverse, white depre-
dation...
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