... a “caucus-race” is doing in Wonderland, this essay looks at the history of the caucus, recent political theories of democracy, Lewis Carroll's mathematical work on the theory and practice of elections, and, finally, his literary thinking about what it might really mean to live democratically. © 2014...

...JONATHAN GREENBERG JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. xxvii + 276, hardcover $85.00, paper, $23.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 The Descent of Theory JOSEPH CARROLL, Literary...

... in particular ( Carroll 208 ). They claimed—as if the difficulty and anxiety of Eliot's research were somehow communicated to the novel's readers—that it made reading an experience of effort and difficulty rather than the easy, pleasurable one an audience anticipated: “The fullest knowledge is insufficient...

... and optical toys. (There is also a discussion of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass , but it seems somewhat out of place in a chapter that is otherwise so focused on ephemeral material culture.) Where other historians of Victorian games have stressed...

... . Carroll , David . George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994 . Carroll , David , ed. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage . New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971 . Chalmers , Thomas . The Application of Christianity to the Commercial and Ordinary...

...-as-debris. The Report's second touchpoint was The Hunting of the Snark . Lewis Carroll's “Agony in Eight Fits” also involves an epic sea voyage, as a motley crew set out to hunt a vague, uncanny quarry (the snark). The fact that one of them is a banker, another a barrister invites us, just as Moby...

... to apprehend the social landscape of modernity and novelistic enough to make the failures of sociological knowledge and sensibilities one of its central dramas. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Carroll , David . “Introduction.” George Eliot: The Critical Heritage . Ed. Carroll David. New...

.... Carroll , David . George Eliot: The Critical Heritage . London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1971 . Davidoff , Leonore , and Catherine Hall Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850 . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Eliot , George , and Marian Evans...

...David Attwell CLARKSON CARROL , J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 ), pp. 224 , cloth, $89.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Fiction and the Linguistic Turn CARROL CLARKSON, J. M. Coetzee...

... Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 1979 . Bakhtin Mikhail . “Discourse in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Trans. Emerson Caryl Holquist Michael . Texas : U of Texas P , 1981 . 259 – 422 . Beer Gillian . Darwin's Plots . London : Ark , 1983 . Carroll...

... of Joyce, Deleuze, and Derrida . London : Continuum , 2007 . Buchner Johannes , and Martin Sylvia , eds. Der Grosse Wurf: Faltungen in der Gegenwartskunst / Falling Right into Place: The Fold in Contemporary Art . Bilingual edition. Freiburg : Modo , 2008 . Carroll Lewis...

... that converges with Hamilton Carroll and Annie McClanahan's search for a fiction that can limn the “complex ontology” of our extended global financial crisis, whose temporality has proceeded in “spirals and oscillations, and through repetitions and difference” ( 657–58 ). In the case of Carroll and McClanahan's...

...Carrol Clarkson MARAIS MIKE , Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee ( Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2009 ), pp. 249 , cloth, $72.00 . HAYES PATRICK , J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett ( Oxford : Oxford UP...

... of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994 . Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . 1984. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992 . Carroll , David , ed. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage . 1971. London: Routledge...

... ( 2001 ): 39 –63. British Council Poland. “Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro.” 26 Oct . 2005 . < http://www.britishcouncil.org/poland-kazuo-ishiguro.htm > Carroll , Noël . A Philosophy of Mass Art . Oxford: Clarendon, 1998 . Casanova , Pascale . The World Republic...

... to march forward in time, bringing past formulations up to date. You and I have done our bits to realign that kind of tradition for postcolonialism and feminism, respectively. But I have yet to hear of anyone, least of all McCarthy, who wants to line up Sterne, Carroll, Conrad's Secret Agent , or Pynchon...

... is unlikely to instill horror, grief, or regret in the reader, most strongly evoking instead “a feeling of sheer relief,” as Joseph Carroll has suggested ( 250 ). Grieved only briefly by Hareton, who cries over Heathcliff's grave, the pervading sense after Heathcliff's demise is one of a “right order” having...

... of Modernism . Ed. Micale Mark . Palo Alto, CA : Stanford UP , 2004 . 172 – 96 . Carroll Lewis Dodgson Charles Lutwidge . Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There . Illus. Tenniel John . London : Macmillan , 1871 . “Chess Is a Shouting Match the Way These Two...

... friendship by earlier feminist scholars such as Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Adrienne Rich, Lillian Fadennan, and Martha Vicinus. Marcus uses examples of women's lifewriting to define Victorian female friendship as a category distinct from erotic infatuation and from female marriage. In chapter 2, Marcus...

... Carroll and Brian Boyd, Vermuele argues that it is only natural to care so much about fictive people. We have adapted to care about these imaginary beings because it is in our best interest to do so. Literary characters, Vermeule writes, “are the greatest practical-reasoning schemes ever...