... of siblings: the Victorian family chronicle. Family chronicles understand their large families as systems; they celebrate the replaceability of relationships rather than the irreplaceability of individuals. By insisting that a flourishing group can function in the absence of any particular person...

... years, chronicles the collective life of an isolated medieval convent in the Norfolk Broads. Neither author addresses air war directly, but air itself looms large in both their works—in the “airy world” of Poyntz Hall, as Woolf describes the rural setting of Between the Acts , and in the pestilential...

... discussion. This is a question of some importance for the art of Machado de Assis, who dramatized it in one of his fine chronicles, called “O punhal de Martinha” (“Mar- tinha’s Dagger from 1894. The story, written in a pastiche of classical prose, con- cerns the parallel destinies of two daggers. One...

... Haruki’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.” Return to Japan: from “Pilgrimage” to the West . Ed. Yoichi Nagashima. Aarhus: Aarhus UP, 2001 . 329 –45. Fogel , Joshua A. The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China 1862–1945 . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996 . Gallagher , Mark...

... chronicles like Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Daisy Chain (1856) or Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868–69) shows this popular genre doing something quite similar at the level of narrative form. Where such novels as Jane Eyre (1847), David Copperfield (1850), and Jude the Obscure (1894–95) came up...

... of his novels to be set in Wessex—conveys, in the key of progress, one of the defining features of a region whose chronicler he will become over the course of his writing career: the pull of tradition, a half forgotten yet ghostly presence, in the face of constant change. On one hand, tradition reclaims...

... Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the Highlands of Scotland . 2 vols . London: R. Blamire, 1789 . Gretna Green or the Elopement of Miss D— with a Gallant Son of Mars . London: Thomas Kelly, 1823 . Hutchinson , Peter Orlando . Chronicles of Gretna Green . 2 vols . London: R...

... of fidelity to the facts, to the fundamental features of a violent event. There are, of course, signif- icant differences between the two. Lang stresses the centrality of the chronicle as the necessary basis for responsible representation; LaCapra warns against fidelity to trauma, a point to which I...

... . Blanchot , Maurice . “The Power and the Glory.” The Book to Come . Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003 . 245 –52. Bourdieu , Pierre . The Logic of Practice . Trans. Richard Nice. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990 . Brooks , Peter . “The Ethics of Reading.” Chronicle...

... (1812–13), in the context of its publication in three volumes at the newspaper offices of the Kingston Chronicle . Even if the novel's anonymous author was “probably a Scotchman” like his protagonist, advertisements in the Morning Chronicle testified to his intimate knowledge of the island, stressing...

....” Daily News 17 Jul. 1860 . “International Statistical Congress.” Morning Chronicle 21 Jul. 1860 . “International Statistical Congress.” Times 17 Jul. 1860 . Jaffe Audrey . The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph...

... Trollope describes as an impractical type of pro- priety for its own sake, Lily became an affective clot that impeded the tidy closure of Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles because she could not complete her marriage Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42:2  DOI 10.1215/00295132-2009-014  © 2009 by Novel, Inc...

... that register and differentiate forms and levels of sensation as they play out over time. In Basil, for example, the protagonist chronicles his physiologi- cal symptoms: Every nerve in my body, strung up to the extremest point of tension since the morning, now at last gave way. I felt...

... veracity, of realism”; “[T]he theories of so-called ‘realism’ had, of course, never occurred to him; a novel, to his mind, was a very different thing from a severe chronicle of actual lives” (Critical Study 64; Immortal Dickens 93). Gissing in these passages wants to distinguish Dickens from...

... attention to noncanonical authors and texts, it will not be cited in author-centered studies of nineteenth-century narrative. Yet London's work will be useful to readers of this jour- nal because it helps chronicle the historical emergence of discourses of the self, the uncon- scious...

.../content/german-peace-prize-for-boualem-sansal-a-good-cowardly-choice >. Weinstein Phillip . Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2005 . Wolin Richard . “Herf's Misuses of History.” Chronicle of Higher Education 22 Nov. 2009 < http...

.... MARILYN BUTLER I THE POLITICAL EDGEWORTH period of eighty years. The Rackrent family chronicles, it is now generally con- ceded, really do derive from a similar family memoir not fictional at all. It was written in the late 1760s by Maria Edgeworth's grandfather Richard Edgeworth (1701-70) from...

...: 132 Trevelyan, G. M., II: 431 Weber, Max, I: 245 Trollope, Anthony Wellek, René An Autobiography, I: 268 A History of Modern Criticism, I: 326 The Chronicles of Barsetshire, I: 268 West, Rebecca, II: 524; III: 132...

... Principles of Political Economy (1848), a book that was written at the same time that Mill published a series of articles on Ireland in the Morning Chronicle (in 1846). In these articles, he argued that the state has the right to ‘‘reassign property rights’’ (Maurer 62) and that it should use its power...

... cosmopolitan aesthetics to cultural particularism. By stressing a silver lining in imperial devolution, Esty rightly steps away from more gloomy narratives of British culture of the century that chronicle a lapse into small ambitions and little Englandism. This account is developed through...