... of Dickens's early novels— The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–44), and A Christmas Carol (1843)—this article shows how old men are excluded from the youthful plot of development that served as a narrative means of understanding the bewildering progress of a modernizing society. No longer...

...), a novel that attempts to move the “lesbian pulp” genre into specifically middlebrow territory and in doing so brings the stakes of a middlebrow aesthetic project into an especially sharp focus. © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Aldrich Ann , ed. Carol...

...CAROLE ANNE TAYLOR Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Alonso , Carlos J. “Editor’s Column: 11 September 2001.” PMLA 117 ( 2002 ): 9 –12. Bambara , Toni Cade , and Louis Massiah, dirs. and prods. The Bombing of Osage Avenue . WHYY Video. Philadelphia: Scribe...

...ERIK DUSSERE CAROLE ANNE TAYLOR, The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women’s Fiction (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pp. 288, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Intercultural Transmission CAROLE...

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....” Profession 2007 . Ed. Feal Rosemary G. Zuses Carol . New York : Modern Language Association of America , 2007 . 187 – 99 . Johnson Steven . Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter . New York : Penguin , 2005 . Lanier Jaron...

... in Contemporary U.S. Fiction. CAROLE ANNE TAYLOR is Professor in English and African American/American Cultural Studies at Bates College. Her most recent book is The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity through Black Women's Fiction. She is currently at work on a project that examines...

... . 25 –33. Dickens , Charles . Bleak House . Ed. Nicola Bradbury. London: Penguin, 2003 . ———. “A Christmas Carol.” A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings . Ed. Slater , Michael . London: Penguin, 2003 . 27 –118. ———. Hard Times: For These Times . Ed. Law , Graham...

... to claim his rightful prize); the Belgian poet, playwright, and filmmaker Hugo Claus; the exiled Chinese poet Bei Dao; and the Syrian-born Lebanese poet Ali Ahmed Saeed—but apparently not Morrison. “American writers whose names have surfaced from time to time,” the Times added, “are Joyce Carol Oates...

..., Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates, Ishmael Reed, Sandra Cisneros, N. Scott Momaday, on and on, the legion. McGurl gets to them all, does brief takes that are often like droll monologues, deadpan, epi- grammatic. He has a cool take on Kesey’s literary bravado and Merry Prankster...

... . Ottawa : Tecumseh , 2001 . Buies Arthur . “Littérature canadienne-française: Naissance et stagnation.” 1877 . Anthologie . Ed. Mailhot Laurent . Montreal : Bibliothèque québécoise , 1994 . 299 – 301 . Cambron Micheline Gerson Carole . “Literary Authorship...

... expansion" (a term taken from Eric Rothstein's work on eighteenth-century aesthetics) in which meliterary characters auld become "the prop- erty of all" in what Brewer, drawing on Carol Rose, calls a "textual commons." Authors lose property rights over their inventions as their characters acquire...

... disparate and covert feelings of possessiveness, obsession, shame, guilt, secretiveness, hesitancy, and blockage." That shocking images of the Holocaust appalled and shaped the collective memory of non-Jews as well as Jews born right after the war is exemplified by Joyce Carol Oates's revealing...

...-Queen’s UP, 1997 . Sacher-Masoch , Leopold von . Venus in Furs. Masochism . Trans. Jean McNeil. New York: Zone Books, 1991 . 147 –276. Siegel , Carol . Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995 . Trodd , Anthea . Domestic Crime...

... Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981 . Marcus , Steven . Representations: Essays on Literature and Society . New York: Random, 1974 . Martin , Carol . George Eliot’s Serial Fiction . Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1994...

..., the perennial popularity of A Christmas Carol, and kitschy salutes such as the Richmond candle shop Great DAWN COLEMAN 1 WIRED VICTORIANS Waxpectations, the Manhattan wine-tasting Grape Expectations, and the nationwide video dating service Great Expectations Services...

... Babington Macaulay, Norman O. Brown, Carol Fabricant, and Claude Rawson. But Gee brings in plenty of fresh matter, so to speak. “Swift’s satirical vision is Protestant in its nature. It rejects the Roman Catholic doctrine that base matter can be made divine, and it adheres to the logic that where...

... opposing types of play. The factory owner embodies that central Victorian premise, “competition: the agonis- tic impulse to win, to outplay one’s opponent,” as Kaiser notes of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (18). There, the “fact that Christmas cheer, as moral corrective to competition, soundly...

... . “‘A Wilde Desire Took Me’: The Homoerotic History of Dracula.” ELH 61 ( 1994 ): 381 –425. Schehr , Lawrence . French Gay Modernism . Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004 . Senf , Carol A. “Dracula: Stoker's Response to the New Woman.” Victorian Studies 26 ( 1982 ): 33 –49...

.... Super 22 vols . Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1973 . 238 –85. Barash , Carol . “Virile Womanhood: Olive Schreiner’s Narratives of a Master Race.” Speaking of Gender . Ed. Elaine Showalter. London: Routledge, 1989 . 269 –81. Berkman , Joyce Avrech . The Healing Imagination of Olive...