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“Let me make the novels of a country”: Barbauld’s The British Novelists (1810/1820)
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2001
..." in "the
literature of our country" despite its unpopularity (1.xlvi). Clearly, canonicity for
Barbauld is neither the purely commercial affair it was in Harrison's Novelists
Magazine, the closest thing to a precedent which Barbauld probably consulted,
since it reprinted anything likely to sell in weekly...
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From City to Country: An Outline of Fluvio-Critique
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 53–72.
Published: 01 May 2007
... into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1976 . Williams , Raymond . The Country and the City . New York: Oxford UP, 1973 . From City to Country: An Outline of
Fluvio-Critique
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Jewett in the Systems Epoch
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Gabriel Mehlman Abstract This article focuses on Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs , the most famous example of the realist genre of local color. Published in 1898, the novel was written during the very moment of the generic collapse of local color. That collapse occurs within...
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Mutant City: On Partial Transformations in Three Johannesburg Narratives
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... urban space. I am ultimately interested in how these subjectivities inform various imaginations of futurity—catastrophic, deconstructive, and regenerative—within a country in which, as Imraan Coovadia has written, “the conditions for transcending the present are hardly to be conceived” (51). Copyright...
FIGURES
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Growing Up Against Allegory: The Late Works of J. M. Coetzee
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 419–435.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Coetzee's earlier fiction are analyzed, with focus on In the Heart of the Country (1977) and Boyhood (1997). Parental roles are found to be vital in the connections between the novel form and allegory. The third section applies these analyses to Childhood and Schooldays . Focus on the books’ references...
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Grounds for Collective Action
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 8–18.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Kinohi Nishikawa Abstract The Black Lives Matter movement experienced a groundswell of support in the summer of 2020. The scale of mobilization was staggering, with marches and rallies held in every corner of the country. Since then, support for the movement has dropped, and some see...
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“That's How It Is”: Quotidian Violence and Resistance in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Coils of Fear
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Priscilla Layne Abstract Black Germans occupy a unique position of simultaneous invisibility and hypervisibility. Since their country did away with the category of race due to its associations with the Nazis, on paper Black Germans are read as just “German” and de facto white. But they are also...
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One Hundred Years of Egyptian Realism
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 262–277.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Noha Radwan The early twentieth century witnessed the birth of an Egyptian novel that was an offspring of European realism and a constituent of the project of “modernizing” the country and the region. Yet by the middle of the century, the majority of Egyptian writers were veering away from realism...
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The Realist Impulse and the Future of Postcoloniality
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... readings of two contemporary novelists: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) and Chetan Bhagat (India). Despite coming from different countries and political positions, both authors break open existing paradigms in postcolonial literature and represent a new imagining of the potential relationship between...
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Interest, Disgust
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., but the novelistic representation of battered corpses and rat feces has proved an uncontroversial, if not welcome, addition to lesson plans across the country. This essay argues that literary disgust has irrevocably shaped institutional feeling—how students feel in schools and how schools train students to feel...
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Buying Time: Howards End and Commodified Nostalgia
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 330–350.
Published: 01 November 2003
... Gardens, Public Swamps: Howards End and the Revaluation of Liberal Guilt.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 25 ( 1992 ): 141 –59. Bradbury , Malcolm . “Howards End.” Forster: A Collection of Critical Essays . Ed. Malcolm Bradbury. New Jersey: Prentice, 1966 . 128 –43. Country Cottages...
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The Cosmopolitan Revolution: Loyalism and the Fiction of an American Nation
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 52–76.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Republic . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997 . Nussbaum , Martha . For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism . Ed. Joshua Cohen. Boston: Beacon, 1996 . Onuf , Peter S. Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood . Charlottesville: U of Virginia P...
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Beckett's Big House: Watt , Waste, and the Fiction of Irish Autonomy
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 305–323.
Published: 01 August 2022
... that would dominate the Irish political agenda even after the country won independence. These novels consistently obscure the actual historical role of the Big House. The colonial homesteads that overtook the Irish national imagination served not as bulwarks against empire but as its instruments, reproducing...
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Black Lives Matter and the Contemporary African Novel: Form and the Limits of Solidarity
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... (at least in its effects). Paging through the volume, the reader, whether through the reproduction of the festival passports used by attendees—which take up entire pages in the book—or the festival posters or press from participating countries, is taken on a whirlwind tour of FESTAC's world, yet through...
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“A Fall in Bread”: Speculation and the Real in Emma
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 66–85.
Published: 01 August 2004
... innocuous enough, but the
fall was the first ripple in what was to prove an economic tsunami, one sweeping
away her beloved brother Henry's small country bank, as it did so many others
(Nokes 485-86). The period 1809-1813 had been one of unprecedented prosperity
for the farming interest. Napoleon's...
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The Facts We Deliver
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 184–188.
Published: 01 May 2010
...—
the phrase about “great men” complicates this claim but doesn’t for the moment
unravel it—while the writers we think of as historians write about countries: they
“entitle their books ‘the History of England, the History of France, of Spain, &c
The division of labor is clear, if odd, but the trouble...
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Not Going Anywhere: Local Protests as Post-global Politics
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
... recounts, “The idea was you came here, your parents and their parents and their parents, and you always seem to have just arrived and yet never seem to have actually arrived. You're here, supposedly, in a new land full of opportunity, but somehow have gotten trapped in a pretend version of the old country...
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The Novel's Mobile Home
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 72–77.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., of this country only, but, in some degree, of those of every nation
upon earth. For nothing can be a source of real interest in one of them, without
concerning all the rest.” Dickens makes the far corners of time and space a feature
of the English “household.” One of the reasons Dickens wanted to start...
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Collaboration and Competition
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and African intellectuals. But the appeal extended in both directions. For writers from colonial countries, England provided a not unambiguous set of resources and prestige that could bolster their reputations, even in their own countries. Conversely, for the late-modernist English establishment, who had...
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The African Example
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 14–16.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., etc Decolonization gave arbitrary colonial bound
aries some measure of legitimacy, but it did not make them important to the con-
ceptualization of the novel. The prodigious production of novels in particular
countries (Nigeria and South Africa, for example) does not imply that citizens...
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