...LISA O’CONNELL DAVID A. BREWER, The Afterlife of Character, 1726–1825 (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005), pp. 288, cloth, $59.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 The Character Effect DAVID A. BREWER, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825...

... within the Revolutionary world. At the moment of their execution, the difference between the characters "all flashes away": "[Tlhe knitting-women count Twenty-Two Twenty-three" (371). The numbers specify, but they are neither driven by characterization nor open to it. A scene that seems...

...Nidesh Lawtoo Moses Omri , Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life Stanford : Stanford UP , 2014 , pp. 296, cloth, $65.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Characterizations of modernism have been changing dramatically over the past decades...

...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...

...Jacob Hovind VERMEULE BLAKEY , Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2010 ), pp. 273 , cloth, $60.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Price Martin . “People of the Book: Character in Forster's...

... this constitution of character through collectivity, it disrupts both the interiorized mental procedures of Millian liberalism and our own critical practice of reading characters as metaphysically more than the cultural information of which they are composed. By unleashing statistical sciences into the dimension...

... sisters. What is more, “simple discourse invites the reader to interpret ” (131), the more so since characterization is indirect rather than explicit: this may be part of the reason why critics have missed the significance of character in the Ephesiaca . But that significance is there, and De Temmerman...

... mobile notion of collective identity toward an investigation of the presence and functions of translation as a major component in her characterization. By repeatedly conveying characters across spatial, linguistic, or sociocultural bound- aries, her novels fashion translatable selves that are open...

... minor characters were they not first encountered or observed by more central figures, brought to our attention for a specific purpose. More recently, critics have written about characterization in a way that allows us to link these ideas about the fictionality and functionality of Dickens's minor...

....), Nostromo , in certain features of its plot and methods of characterization, actually does develop its institutions as, in Esty's phrase, “susceptible to positive representation,” though this representation brings with it the evacuation of character as a property of the individual. ...

...Kent Puckett Henry James's The Princess Casamassima is, among other things, a novel about becoming a terrorist. What kind of past suits one to a terrorist's work? What makes this especially interesting is the fact that the novel's main character, Hyacinth Robinson, is offered as both the most...

...William A. Cohen Among the many elements that divert the nineteenth-century novel's plot and characters from achieving their ends—and thus keep such narratives moving—envy occupies a special place. Envy is so psychologically powerful that it often threatens not only to irretrievably derail...

..., particularly the originary symptoms of affect in a character or narrator, as opposed to the secondary response in a reader. Why is it necessary for the novel to record these originary symptoms at all when affect could be produced in the reader by other means? The textual record of the sensation novel, which...

...Gage McWeeny The oblique interrelations of characters through complex social networks—the Empire of the Little which so much occupies mid-nineteenth-century realism—constituted for fiction a “new social continent,” as Fredric Jameson has suggested. But this continent has more than one discoverer...

...Eleni Coundouriotis This article discusses the chronotope of humanitarian emergencies in realist fiction. Novels that depict the effects of prolonged and extreme insecurity often include improbable figures, characters in which they invest a hope for the future and who are presented as inventive...

...” and the “ignorant or canting doctors” might be said to linger at the threshold between characterization and the oblivion of nondescription. They are neither characters in the novel nor persons in the extradiegetic world. There is also something unusual about how statistical thinking is employed...

... bring himself to read. Critics have found Fielding’s characters problematic for as long as they have found his ‘‘perfect plot’’ laudable.1 Indeed, the nearly unanimous acclaim for Fielding’s plot has been taken to be both a recompense for and a sign of the defi- ciencies of his characterization...

..., sensibility, wit, [and] accomplishments” (238). Imbued with an uncanny—one might even say “metaleptic”—sense of the ins and outs of social plotting, these literary characters' savoir faire is cast as formal agency, thereby giving us a new technology of literary characterization that occurs on the field...

.... Jaffe, too, argues that the reader of Eliot is a “mass character,” and goes on to claim that if Eliot offers any imaginary compensation for this experience of punishing standardization, it is by constructing us as a “knowing member of the mass.” I agree with this characterization, and I want...

... befall any character or any text of any period (in other words, more a possibility recognized within a certain theoretical perspective than an historically specific condition), the essay proceeds to ask: what is it that links specifically late-Victorian notions of the inhuman with the iterable character...