..." (42). NOVEL I FALL 2007 "Wagon or no wagon, she wouldn't wait. Then she'd be upset" (18-19). Anse's claim regarding the propriety of Cash's building Addie's coffin directly beneath her window-"she will rest quieter for knowing that it was her own blood sawed out...

... exemplify these practices through their consumption and repackaging of media narratives and current affairs to lend their scams credibility. In Chance , we witness this when Cash Daddy and his entourage travel to the UK with him posing as Nigeria's minister of aviation, timing their visit to coincide...

... , Boyd . Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Government, 1815–30 . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977 . Kynaston , David . “The Bank of England and the Government.” The Bank of England: Money, Power and Influence, 1694–1994 . Ed. Richard Roberts and David Kynaston. Oxford...

... achievement in these first paragraphs of Bleak House is to represent land not as a geographic truth but as a social relation. More than a decade before Dickens began writing Bleak House , Thomas Carlyle claimed that a “nexus” of cash payment had become the sole social connection between Englishmen...

...-things like cash registers, amusement park rides, Kodak cameras, and children's toys-pressured literary inscription, and how literary texts can be considered "repositor[ies] of disparate and fragmentary, unevenly developed, even contradictory images of the material everyday" that become...

... describes. In other words, even as his case studies are oriented around market analysis—on the financial successes or failures of these literary partnerships—he also defines the part- nerships as transcending those of “cash payment” lest he blindly follow Carlyle’s reproof that it be the “sole nexus...

... a snake eating its tail: “West borrows from the mass cultural form of the comic strip to examine mass culture itself” (74). To read every fictional work in terms of such self-reflexivity not only forecloses the ability of literature to represent something larger than its own local cash/cultural...

... maintains this focus on the formal consequences for narrative of hostility toward the event. He cashes out those consequences in chapters devoted to Flaubert, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and Joyce. The chapter on Flaubert is a brilliant piece of literary criticism, ranging from exemplary close readings...

... home with Rochester] s>mbolizes, naturalizes, domesticates, and internalizes the violent histories of deforestation, slavery, and the ecologically and so- cially devastating cultivation of cash crops in Madeira and Jamaica" (35). That mahogany and Madeira wine are valued more than human life...

..., to build on the success of commercial stations like Radio Luxemburg and Radio Normandy in order to set up a European-based station broadcasting to the British mainland. Its first purpose was to have been to offer an entertainment service in English that would generate revenue for the cash-strapped...

... purpose.” James comments on this efficient relay between love and cash by noting how booksellers enhance the commercial value of Jane by shifting the locus of the modifier “dear”: their“ ‘dear,’ our dear, everybody’s dear, Jane.” Using free indi- rect discourse to incorporate the ad hype he abhors...

... Dorrit (1855) and Our Mutual Friend (1864) are the most famous examples of texts depicting speculation as morally bankrupt but there are a number of others such as Charles Reade's Hard Cash (1863) and Tom Taylor's StiN Wafers Run Deep (1855) and Payable on Demand (1859). For a survey...

... and darkening neighbor- hood until no one will buy his business there. But after the fires from the Detroit riots burn the place down, he takes the insurance money and pays cash down when the realtor doesn’t want to sell to Greeks, then enrolls Callie in a private school for girls. Coming back for his...

... , Boyd . Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Governments, 1815–1830 . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977 . Hobsbawm , E.J. Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day . 1969. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990 . Hollander , Samuel . “Ricardo, Torrens and Sraffa...

... norms cannot compass—but that is available in the form of a defect, in the symptom of their lack of fit. The Adornian principle of the unassimilable remainder that escapes the violence of stylization is cashed out historically and concretely. That is, it cashes out contingently, revealing...

... finally agrees to trust both boys and the man from the PIO, orders a new boy, and ad- vances the agent a commission plus cash for the child's travel expenses. However, its greater stakes-those which produce the distinction between loser and winner, dupe and confidence-man-actually have little...

... (i.e., through a social field). Further, save for coffee purchases, occasional acts of begging, and the bank heist, money is virtual: no actual cash changes hands for the Settlement itself, champagne (32), the Madlyn Mansions building, or the narrator's financial speculations. The exception is a bribe...

...: the idea of a highlighted hyperlink, in fact, works very well as an analogy. The most striking example of these is the first one, where the device is still a surprise: the Aum Shin Rikio cultist, short of cash in his Okinawa hideout, calls a number in Tokyo and appeals for help in code: “The dog...

... to undergo a “painless operation” that temporarily renders him a “Negro” (221). Their summer experiment is conceived as a sly entrepreneurial venture: the two students plan to tour the country on the pretext of giving literary readings but with the real intent of cashing in on the “gaping” surprise...

.... Displayed, bought, exploited, ravaged, and diseased, Nana's body is animated by numbers (theater tickets, rent, fees, gifts, lovers, cash, etc.) until it gives shape to a statistic whose fate the narrative accumulation of quantifiers has made all too probable. As an orphan, Dickens's Oliver is the figure...