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... economy renders the social nature of Black revolution similarly imperceptible. Blake reproduces this imperceptibility and unthinkability through its structure. The book, which is famously incomplete, ends just as a violent revolution is about to erupt in Cuba. Whether the final chapters were lost or never...

... the concupiscence of readers who turn the pages only to get to the end. The coach whose stages are compared to the breaks between chapters in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews becomes in Sterne's text the speeding post chaise, a new technology in the mid-eighteenth century, which carries Tristram in his flight from...

..., the newly instituted novel assumed, physically, Victorian proportions. It became a quantitative phenomenon in the history of the real. This essay outlines that history, from the primacy of the metaphysical to the physical to the virtual. As we enter electronically into that third chapter, Nancy Armstrong's...

... of the medical establishment's interests in black minds and bodies. Focusing on Invisible Man and an early excised chapter titled “Out of the Hospital and under the Bar,” this essay proposes that Ellison rewrites the terms of psychiatric discourse, embracing a dialectical understanding of neurosis that figures...

..., and sometimes obsessive remediation. The study is most compelling for the insights it provides into Scott’s writings and char- acter. Introducing chapter 2 Procreativity: Remediation and Rob Roy by surveying the- atrical productions of Rob Roy throughout Britain, for example, Rigney locates part...

... entail. And I open with this partial critique to show how Franta's book evinces a productive demonstration of the humble, self-aware side of Enlightenment systems even as the book sometimes conflates system's reflexivity with failures or critiques of system. Franta's first chapter, on how Samuel...

...-ranging, probing, original. I wish it were more attractively written. But of that later. My introduction to Semi-detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens , came when I picked up the book and read chapter 1, “Pertinent Fiction: Short Stories into Novels.” I have long been a fan...

... written anything resembling this rich, if occasionally frustrating, book. "My initial notion," Brown expIains, "cvas that Kant and the gothic together discovered a new dimension of human consciousness" (ix). Over sixteen short chapters that cover an impressive range of literary, philosophical...

... Troubles. The second section is on contemporary fiction and consists of a chapter on retrospective fiction about Partition on the Indian subcontinent and a chapter on Nigerian fiction's treatment of the “slow tyranny” of oil exploitation under the Sani Abacha dictatorship of the 1990s. The book's closing...

.... (Women figure more often as translators than as authors, with the exception of one section on "The Sacrifice of the Heroine Some of the chapters abridge important recent or forthcoming critical monographs; others provide surveys of national literatures or intro- ductions to little-known texts...

... a fuller gestural aesthetics in the work of Marcel Jousse. Burns begins her second chapter, on gesture, with a discussion of parody, pointing out that the trope can range from an aggressive attack on the object to light, ironic play, anything from satiric assault to an acknowledgment...

... proximate to symptoms nor easily visualized? In another chapter, Kennedy draws parallels between realist narrators and midcentury physicians who, “in a backlash against ‘heroic’ medicine, valorized less treatment rather than more,” creating a moment of calm between “bloodletting or mer- cury early...

... representations that are ripe for critical reappropriation, are the subject of chapters on Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) and Thomas Southerne's popular stage version of Oroonoko (1695); Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton (1720) as well as his other texts about pirates; Swift's analysis of Irish politics...

... through the chapters of the book, Apartheid and Beyond is in essence a collection of six freestanding essays. In each, Barnard examines the work(s) of an individual author through a particular theoreti- cal framework. In the first chapter, “Dream Topographies,” Barnard suggests that Coetzee used...

...-contributed to "the construction of the American subject" (6). In order to make its case, the book begins with a brief introduction, then proceeds in chapter 1 to investigate "geodetic writing practices" such as surveying manuals, followed by an analysis in chapter 2 of the "role of geography...

... readings of the book's first chapter lay the foundation for all subsequent chapters. In chapter 2, Underwood identifies the same shift in the timeline visualizations of Joseph Priestley and Emma Willard, which present history as a periodized totality; the intellectual labor of connecting different moments...

... are worth telling to the largest number of readers, how such stories should be told, and how audiences should respond. The book’s structure emphasizes the range of genres that journalism encompasses. Its chapters are organized, intriguingly, according to types of newspaper features: shipping news...

... is organized chronologically, with three chapters on poetry and fiction of World War I, three chapters on texts of World War 11, and one chapter each on representa- tions of Vietnam and the Gulf War. Norris has chosen texts that highlight-either through form or content-the challenges of representing war...

..., Feminism, and Jewishness consists of an introduction and six chapters, each of which meticulously analyzes an aspect of the construction of feminist authorship through the figure of the Jew. The first chapter draws from Warner’sSummer Will Show, Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight, and Woolf’s The Years...

... modernist metropolitan and colonial sensibilities (6). The book’s four chapters examine fiction by James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Zoe¨ Wicomb, and Amit Chaudhuri to make the case that these writers uniquely confront the tedium of a dull existence—depicted through the claustrophobia of an unfalteringly...