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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 343–348.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., historically inside the field of civil society yet ideologically outside it, assumes a relentless antagonism to its norms. The division of narratives maps the conceptual antagonism between civil society, a collective composed of individuals and a formal system of regulated differences, and fanaticism...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 283–304.
Published: 01 August 2022
... exceptions, such as the Circumlocution Office in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit or Anthony Trollope's Three Clerks ). Although squarely set within the “governing-class spirit” of Westminster and populated with a bevy of civil servants, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway tends to be read as maintaining a strict...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 345–363.
Published: 01 November 2013
... neo-slave narrative insofar as they deploy fantastic modes to probe the points of rupture as much as to establish parallels between antebellum slavery and the post–civil rights present. With their multiple frames of reference (to racialized American slavery, cross-racial reproductive enslavement...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 365–374.
Published: 01 November 2017
... , coined by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields to capture the epistemic and political confusion surrounding the category of race in the post–civil rights decades. In an era in which the distinction between the truths and lies of the race concept no longer carries much rhetorical force, American...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
... apart from the privatizing drive that seeks to corporatize all civil society. This ambition to differentiate the novel from the primary ideology of this period has been marked by the emergence of a particular mode of critical rejoinder to the pervasive corporatist mind-set, a mode called limit thinking...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... whose 1920s‐era story registers as actually being about the post–civil rights period in which the novel was published. The essay goes on to suggest that such an allegorical function is served by the African American novel in general, insofar as African American novels are understood to thematize...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
... published. Taking into account the Supreme Court's 1883 Civil Rights Cases, which facilitated housing discrimination against Black Americans, this article argues that the Albany home, whose door remains bolted to the “vulgar street,” protects James's American lady from a vulgarity associated...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 108–131.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Peace Prize, The German Mujahid , I argue, reproduces this new iteration of Islamist totalitarianism in novel form, triangulating memory of the 1994 civil war in Algeria and memory of the Holocaust along with contemporary representations of radical Islam in Europe. Yet for a novel so concerned...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 May 2013
... a political transit from barbarism to civilization. This claim is advanced through the convergence of three interpretive strategies: a close reading of the novel that tracks the literal and figurative presence of the hand; direct confrontation with texts of political theory, with special emphasis on Thomas...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 224–242.
Published: 01 August 2015
... represents not a political statement on the Spanish Civil War but an attempt to synthesize and recover the moments of interpenetration between English and Spanish since the 1600s. Hemingway's mode of dialogue in the novel is thus a “structural Spanglish” rather than the common code-switching form...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 261–267.
Published: 01 August 2009
... with a globally exportable “Civilization” or capital-C “Culture” itself. That delimiting impulse found expression in what I call the “self-interrupting” features prominent in Romantic-era and Victorian narrative. This essay considers the challenges facing a planned sequel to Disorienting Fiction that would extend...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 524–530.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... This fiction of failure also has a stake in the state's future. This essay considers how recent novels use civil wars as a setting for generic experimentation. It offers a truncated genealogy of literary interest in state crisis to demonstrate how fiction collaborates with political scientific scholarship...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 90–107.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the confusion that spreads from this contradiction. Being doomed to a state of eternal puberty, the novelistic hero cannot go out into the world and take his place in the history of civilization/culture ( Bildung ). This is especially true for the female Bildungsheld , who finds it even harder to find a spot...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 56–70.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Cindy Weinstein “Heaven's Tense” is about Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's best-selling nineteenth-century text, The Gates Ajar, which was published in the aftermath of the Civil War for the emotional benefit of the immense number of women who had lost their loved ones in the conflict. The overwhelming...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 490–494.
Published: 01 November 2015
... can provide a space where mythic figures of resistance may be read anew. More pointedly, the “black” in post–civil rights era black novels provides an occasion not for policing “civic myths” but for imagining community from the fragments left by a “myth” interrupted ( Nancy 43–70 ). What does...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 431–436.
Published: 01 November 2009
... , Mary Elizabeth . Lady Audley's Secret . Ed. Skilton David. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987 . Frazer , James George . The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion . Abridged ed. New York: Collier, 1963 . Freud , Sigmund . Civilization and Its Discontents . Trans. James Strachey. New...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 245–267.
Published: 01 August 2006
...BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Adas , Michael . “The Great War and the Decline of the Civilizing Mission.” Autonomous Histories: Particular Truths . Ed. Laurie Sears. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993 . Anderson , Benedict . Imagined...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., bureaucrats, and elite spokespersons—that imposed notions of civil-
ity, decorum, and cultural authenticity onto the often less than cooperative poor.
The point here is not so much to invalidate the need to improve the life chances
of impoverished African Americans; rather, it is to keep in view...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Daylanne English Aida Levy-Hussen , How to Read African American Literature: Post–Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation ( New York : New York UP , 2016 ), pp. 211 , paper, $26.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 With her excellent, generous...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 436–451.
Published: 01 November 2020
...” (3). Kingdom Come is about what happens when the dream of violence overruns the civilized world, when violence switches from being a merely latent aspect of civilization to a manifest, predominant principle. This is expressed through a direct allusion to fascistic behavior, the main signifier...
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