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Hogarth's Networks and the Eighteenth-Century “Graphic” Novel
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to literary forms like the early novel, it instead identifies a strain of network thinking in the arts characteristic of the British eighteenth century. At this junction between network‐style thinking and the rise of complex forms of affiliation in the emerging middle classes, art forms appear...
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“She Knew She Ought to Be Happy”: Socialized Subjects in Emma
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 357–374.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the abstract equality characteristic of liberalism, which separates individuals from their social worlds. In contrast, Austen's subjects are almost entirely social. Tying Austen's presentation of the subject to the famous theses by Tom Nairn and Perry Anderson about the particular class compromise...
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Representing the Planet: Affect, Scale, and Utopia
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 2020
... forestalling any attempt to move beyond the paradigms of globalization. In both Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City (1969) and Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2015), the relationship between parts and whole takes shape via the medium of affect, as the defining characteristic of the part becomes a desire for the whole...
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Abstraction and the Subject of Novel Reading: Drifting through Romola
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 490–496.
Published: 01 November 2009
...David Kurnick This essay aims to deepen our understanding of the intellectual and affective characteristics of novel reading by examining the tendency of George Eliot's heroines to drift free of the constraints of their own plots. It focuses on Eliot's historical novel Romola (1862-63...
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From the Papers of a Formalist Critic: Kierkegaard's Theory of the Novel
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 244–261.
Published: 01 August 2024
... turns to a study of the formal features of the novel to distinguish what—and what does not—make novelistic characters believable and come to life. From here, the article proposes that Kierkegaard's theory of the novel is a theory that equates the novel with its most identifiable characteristic...
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Everyday War: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Virginia Woolf in World War II
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 May 2017
... culture inhering in the habits and ceremonies of everyday life. By focusing on the rhythms of communal existence rather than the inner life of their protagonists, these wartime novels exemplify the “outward turn” that Thomas S. Davis and others identify as characteristic of late modernism. Copyright ©...
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The Aesthetics of Hunger: Knut Hamsun, Modernism, and Starvation's Global Frame
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Timothy Wientzen Exhibiting formal characteristics of works published decades later, Knut Hamsun's Hunger (1890) has long occupied a central position in genealogies of modernism. Its status in the modernist canon, however, has often come at the cost of disregarding the cultural and economic...
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Why Lucy Doesn't Care: Migration and Emotional Labor in Villette
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 84–106.
Published: 01 May 2019
... on migration including Jamaica Kincaid. Although Lucy Snowe is the first protagonist to suffer from emotional labor, analyzing Lucy's condition helps us notice that throughout Victorian fiction, a host of minor characters—companions, governesses, nurses—share some of these characteristic traits. Villette...
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Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in The Ambassadors and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
...John Attridge Abstract A capacity for vicarious experience is one of Lambert Strether's most celebrated characteristics, apparent not only in his famous injunction to Little Bilham to “live all you can,” but also in his more general attitude toward Chad Newsome's life in Paris, which he proposes...
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Rethinking the Real with Robinson Crusoe and David Hume
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... The essay suggests that this capacity to illuminate the extraordinary within the ordinary and the illusory within the real becomes one of novelistic fiction's distinctive characteristics. The experience of apprehending the real is reframed as a source of aesthetic pleasure rather than knowledge. © 2014...
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Maxing Out the Novel
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 519–522.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . The most conventionally realistic of Ercolino's tutor texts, The Corrections suggests that either his criteria are incomplete and need at least one additional characteristic, or his application of them is not sufficiently discriminating to distinguish between long books and maximalist novels. Ercolino...
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Before and After the Rise
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 121–126.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Roberto M. Dainotto Mazzoni Guido , Theory of the Novel . Trans. Hanafi Zakiya ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2017 ), pp. 408 , cloth, $39.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 “Our first need is a working definition of the characteristics of the novel—a definition...
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Constitutional Laziness and the Novel: Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O'brien's At Swim-Two-Birds
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 86–108.
Published: 01 May 2009
... is written in honor of Ryan Dobbins and is dedicated to him.
1 The phrase “discrimination of modernisms” is Kiberd’s: “[I]t is time for a discrimination of
modernisms, a recognition that Irish modernism may be not at all the same thing as English
modernism (which characteristically...
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At the Limits of Identity: Realism and American Personhood in Melville’s Confidence-Man
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 384–401.
Published: 01 November 2006
...,
Charlie and Frank not only resolve themselves into substantive agreement, but
also drop the characteristic styles that initially inflect their voices (the cosmopoli-
tan curtails the expansively whimsical eloquence we see in his speech on the
misanthrope; Charlie indulges less frequently...
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Modernizing the Female Subject
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 May 2000
... either
have to do with Wyndham Lewis's hostile contrast between "the damaging feminization of
contemporary literature and a better-harder and more masculine-modernism" (2)? Not-
ing in her introduction how often women function as "modernism's characteristic subjects,
rather than its objects...
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The Novel Problematic
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 17–19.
Published: 01 May 2011
... is an
exceptional case, but in him are located most of the characteristics of Lukács’s
novel proper. For both Lukács and Bakhtin, the crucial distinction is between a
novel that is able to state or instantiate its predicate—in which, to quote Bakhtin,
“characters have become objects, fixed elements...
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Novel Theory for Homo Sapiens
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 297–301.
Published: 01 August 2011
... used to define, more or less, literate or
writing-based forms, on one hand, and those more characteristic of orality or oral cultures
on the other; oralistic “refers to those forms or contents in written story that . . . display
features that are definable as characteristic of oral story” (18...
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Differences that Make No Difference and Ambiguities that Do
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., quantitatively enhanced essays—on (chapter 1) differences in editions characteristic of those in textual scholarship, (chapter 2) textual indicators of genre, and (chapter 3) certain features of historical fiction as linguistic mimesis—are topped off by what is fundamentally (chapter 4) an interpretative reading...
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Things and Nothings: Henry Green and the Late Modernist Banal
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 97–111.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the characteristics of “conventional realist fiction [such as] readily discernable chains of cause-and-effect, coherent characters and a unified, strong narrator” ( Limits 2 ). More marked is Green's interest in fleeting surface details: the bubble of chatter, an occasional iridescent description, or repeated, half...
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On the Protocols of Victorian Citation
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., as if such a goal were in fact the specific purpose of
criticism. Following from this, I am interested in the specific, technical means by
which such a purpose was carried out: extensive, prolonged, often contextless cita-
tion from the novel in question. It is entirely characteristic not only of Jewsbury’s...
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