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Isabel Archer and the Burdens of Centrality
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Archer, The Portrait of a Lady , and the longer arc of James's career but of psychological transparency within the nineteenth-century novel more broadly and, especially, the arrangement of what Alex Woloch calls its “character-space.” Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 novel theory...
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“Still There”: (Dis)engaging with Dickens's Minor Characters
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 August 2020
... minor characters take part in central spaces while not being contained by them. Their distance from main scenes and settings, captured in passing by a gaze that has no interest in registering these elsewheres in any level of depth, has the effect of making minor characters appear strange, memorable...
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Hardy's Unnecessary Lives: The Novel as Surplus
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 August 2014
... in such unnecessary lives as those that populate naturalist fiction. Hardy's characters exceed any assigned social position, yet the surplus that shapes their stories is not just demographic; it is a surplus of words and meanings, a deliberate crowding of figural space that compromises the narrator's prescriptive...
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Rumor, Reputation, and Sensation in Tess of the D'urbervilles
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... First, I examine the relationship between the movements of characters and their attendant social reputations, tracking the way in which hearsay and opinion intersect narrative spaces in the novel. I then move to the level of internal, bodily registration—to the physiology and sensation of rumor...
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Narrative Networks: Bleak House and the Affordances of Form
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Dedlock to parliamentary debates about social reform. There is “rumor,”
which “persists in flitting and chattering about town” (690). There is also the space
of the city itself, which links characters like Charley and Gridley by mere proxim-
ity. And crucially, there are systems of kinship, the most...
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Casting Shadows at Chesney Wold: Empty-House-Time and Realism in the British Novel
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... to this seemingly most static of spaces in order to pick up on signs of life beyond the activity of conventionally bounded characters, we become newly aware of the ways this novel reflects self-consciously on its techniques of world building, its processes of characterization, and the reader's equivocal “occupation...
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The End of the City and the Coming of the Urban: Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 324–338.
Published: 01 August 2022
... not as the gathering point for a cast of characters and narrative threads but as a space that merely facilitates the circulation of people and things, all of which move through the city but are not of it. Perec provides a rationale for his experiment in prefatory remarks to the novel (for a “novel” is what we...
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Dreiser's Stamping Room: Becoming Media in An American Tragedy
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 234–252.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and localized in hall ways that behave like characters. The factory tools and architectural spaces populating An American Tragedy , each rendered as a form of mediation, reveal Dreiser's text to hold a more important place in the formal history of the novel and of the novel's relationship to media than it has...
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The Cult and the World System: The Topoi of David Mitchell's Global Novels
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 November 2014
... retains references back to conspiracy theories andtotalitarian cults even
as it surpasses the organizational complexity of Ghostwritten. Cloud Atlas, a series of
nested novellas linked by different textual media, travels across time and space
through a series of characters with comet-shaped birthmarks...
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Detachable Pockets and Letter Folds: Spatial Formalism and the Portable Interiors of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that the interiority of Pamela hinges less on characters' emotions than on its ability to move between different spatial interiors, from those of domestic architecture to those of spaces that initially register as objects, such as detachable pockets as well as books and letters. Unrecognized is the fact...
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“Vaulted Over by the Present”: Melancholy and Sovereignty in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 355–359.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Jonathan Elmer In 1826, Mary Shelley published The Last Man and James Fenimore Cooper published The Last of the Mohicans . Cooper's novel uses the themes of mourning and extinction as a way of imagining the sequential unfolding in space-time that twenty years later would be labeled Manifest Destiny...
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Hermits, Stoics, and Hysterics: Turkish Democracy and the Female Bildungsroman
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 2014
... visibility in public life, and social mixing between
men and women. Learning how to inhabit these spaces—husband and wife walking
hand in hand; man and woman shaking hands, dancing at balls, and dining together–
characterizes acquiring a new habitus required by secular modernity. The modern...
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Review Essay: The Whole Hogg
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 320–325.
Published: 01 August 2010
... for the same scarce conversational space. The stark battle lines that, during the heyday of the Edinburgh literary scene, characterized journal divisions, political ones, even questions of linguistic fidelity to the Scots dialect may well have been what taught Hogg to conceptualize fiction as a site where...
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Desire and Genre in The Female Quixote
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 31–46.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to measurable goals. She urges readers to see the difference between the romance and the novel not in terms of their content but in terms of generic assumptions about how desire works; novels rely on the transparency of desire to construct realistic characters and narrative arcs, while romances rely...
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Jewett in the Systems Epoch
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
... (“As they came up the walk together, laughing like girls, I fled, full of cares, to the kitchen” [423]). Consider Alex Woloch's compelling structuralist account of the character-system in the realist novel, “the arrangement of multiple and differentiated character-spaces—differentiated configurations...
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Listening to “the Squirrel's Heart Beat”
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2021
... fiction. As he concludes, “Hardy explores the possibilities for recognizing nonhuman animals—sheep and dogs—within the character space of the realist novel” (132). My only quibble with this remarkable chapter is that Kreilkamp might have cited Anna West's accomplished Thomas Hardy and Animals (Cambridge...
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Fictions of the Balance Sheet: Faulkner, Morrison, and the Economics of Slavery
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 279–282.
Published: 01 August 2003
... studies and narrative theory.
Woloch's discussion of "character-space" allows for a different histo-
ry of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. In this
book he...
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Joyce's Census: Character, Demography, and the Problem of Population in Ulysses
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 November 2012
... , 1907 . Woloch Alex . The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . Woolf Virginia . The Essays of Virginia Woolf . Ed. McNeillie Andrew . 6 vols . London : Hogarth , 1986 . Joyce’s Census...
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Small-Scale Institutions in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 399–417.
Published: 01 November 2024
... between the utopian possibilities of small-scale institutions and the real limitations of such institutions. 3 To capture the hotel's complexity, I Hotel figures its titular building within a wide range of characters, spaces, and time frames, showing readers how the hotel came to play an outsized...
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Romancing the Anthropocene: H. G. Wells and the Genre of the Future
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... for the historical “reality” of an imaginary future society. 20 Such exchanges are convincingly described in terms of “character-space” and “character-system” in The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel ( Woloch ). 19 However, if pressed to describe...
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