...John Lurz This essay reorients discussions of Daniel Deronda from its rather tortured generic classifications to a more focused awareness of the novel's particular material medium of transmission in the book. It contrasts the investment in generic forms evinced by Gwendolen and Daniel in the first...

...Devin William Daniels devin.w.daniels@gmail.com Lindsay Thomas , Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 ( Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2021 ), pp. 312 , cloth, $112.00 , paper, $28.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 We would...

... theory of novelistic discourse—because catastrophe is, in what follows, a figure of time, a figure of eventfulness that always and ineluctably worries while it structures the broader protocols of meaning. In particular, my essay returns to Daniel Defoe and his strange preoccupation with disastrous events...

... of Daniel Deronda and Theophrastus of Impressions of Theophrastus Such , this essay argues that Eliot's apparent scapegoats are not designed to affirm the moral vision of Eliot's narrators through negative exemplarity: rather, pharmakos and pharmakeus together generate a complex narrative rhetoric...

... of statistical analysis in Scenes of Clerical Life, Middlemarch , and Daniel Deronda. In the second half of this essay, I offer a rereading of Dickens's Great Expectations and argue that the International Statistical Congress of 1860, the Census of 1861, and the surrounding debates regarding the value...

...Sarah Tindal Kareem This essay reimagines the relationship between Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and David Hume's skeptical philosophy, a relationship previously defined by Ian Watt's suggestion in The Rise of the Novel (1957) that Hume's emphasis upon man's essentially social nature...

...Daniel Hack This essay argues that a combination of the frequently opposed methods of book history and reception studies, on the one hand, and those of formal analysis and close reading, on the other, is needed to illuminate the cultural work done by and with novels. Taking as my example...

...Daniel A. Novak “Photographic Fictions” argues that the discussion of fragmentation and totality, parts and wholes that photography provoked in the work of nineteenth-century writers and photographers is important for how we think of the novel form in the age of photography. Victorian writers...

...DANIEL NOVAK KATE FLINT, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 427, $74.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Reviews Horizons of the Visible KATE FLJNT, The Victorians...

...DANIEL HACK NEIL HERTZ, George Eliot’s Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), pp. xii + 168, cloth, $60.00, paper, $18.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Neil Hertz's Pulse NEIL HERTZ, George Eliot's Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), pp. xii + 168...

...Daniel A. Novak Briefel Aviva , The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2009 ), pp. 223, cloth, $99.99 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 I am overdetermined from without. I am the slave not of the ‘idea’ that others have...

...Daniel Wright Works Cited Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . Epistemology of the Closet . Berkeley : U of California P , 2008 . Woolf Virginia . Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown . London : Hogarth , 1924 . John Plotz , Semi-detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience...

...Daniel Cottom KENT PUCKETT, Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008), pp. 208, cloth, $45.50. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Not So Bad kent puckett, Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel...

...DANIEL SIEGEL Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Adam , Ian . “The Structure of Realisms in Adam Bede.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 30 ( 1975 ): 127 –49. Adams , James Eli . “Gyp’s Tale: On Sympathy, Silence, and Realism in Adam Bede.” Dickens Studies Annual...

...DANIEL Y. KIM COLLEEN LYE, America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005), pp. 368, cloth, $67.50, paper, $22.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Racial Forms, National Fictions COLLEEN LnS America's Asia: Racial...

...DANIEL NOVAK DAVID PAYNE, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization (New York: Palgrave 2005), pp. 224, cloth, $65.00, £45.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Fictions of Enchantment DAVID PAYNE...

...DANIEL HACK CLARE PETTITT, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004), pp. 356, cloth, £58.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Authors and Inventors CLARE rm,Patent Inventions: lntellectual Property...

...DANIEL STOUT Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Works Cited Acton , John Emerich Edward Dalberg . Lectures on the French Revolution . London: Macmillan, 1910 . Arasse , Daniel . The Guillotine and the Terror . Trans. Christopher Miller. London: Penguin, 1989...

...DANIEL COTTOM Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Works Cited Adorno , Theodor . Aesthetic Theory . Ed. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997 . Ambs-Dalès , J.-B. Amours et intrigues des grisettes de Paris, ou...

...Daniel A. Novak GARCHA AMANPAL , From Sketch to Novel: The Development of Victorian Fiction ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2009 ), pp. 294 , cloth, $95.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Not Reading for the Plot amanpal garcha...