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... 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...

...Philip Tsang [email protected] S. Pearl Brilmyer , The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2022 ), pp. 296 , cloth, $105.00 , paper, $30.00 . Robert Higney , Institutional Character: Collectivity...

...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...

... psychological/ethical investments are vitally connected from the beginning of his book and serve as a driving telos of an argument that stretches beyond the text in order to consider how the “modernist concern with literary character is dominated by the question of how to think about life” (3). The ethical...

..., but they are neither driven by characterization nor open to it. A scene that seems designed to confirm the importance of the personal concludes by asserting its irrelevance. This scene's replacement of character by number provides a particularly succinct version of the indifference to individual...

...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...

... 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...

...Robert Mitchell Earlier literary criticism has noted the wide denotation of the term character in the Victorian period, but The Science of Character seeks to reveal why Victorian authors felt that so many things in addition to humans could have a character. Brilmyer argues...

... 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...

... 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...

...” ( 3 ). The problems this poses for representing institutions in the novel—a form reliant on the individual character to produce narrative momentum and closure—can be felt not only in Conrad's development of institutional characterization but also in the awkward co-presence of the novel's...

... new media character realism Users of digital media have unprecedented opportunities to share the details of their lives instantly and with a vast quantity of spectators. But this new power comes with a considerable risk: we lose control over how our personal details spread through a mediatized...

... ), this is not solely because of the character's style of talk. In other words, the manner of Mrs. Elton's speech is not the exclusive means of characterization. In addition to the way Mrs. Elton speaks (her idiolect), it is how that speech is formally presented (as persistent speech) that shapes our reaction...

...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...

... ). Austen's characterization of Frank in relation to the disciplinary mechanisms of gossip, free indirect discourse, and omniscient narration further enhances the character's keen awareness of his uncertain social position and imperiled livelihood. 4 Plotting provides, in Lauren Berlant's words, moments...

...” 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...

...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...