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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 423–430.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... pag.. Hack , Daniel . “Close Reading at a Distance: The African Americanization of Bleak House.” Critical Inquiry 34 . 4 ( 2008 ): 729 -53. “The Jerry Rescue Meeting.” Liberator 7 Oct. 1853 . Johnson , J. R. “Uncle William's Pulpit; or Life among the Lofty. Chapter 1...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 322–338.
Published: 01 August 2018
... as a psychological logic of compensation that operates in cosmopolitan readers to keep less pleasant feelings such as guilt, depression, futility, or isolation at bay. Cole's work interrogates the imperative to always connect, intimating all the while certain possibilities for distance as a mode of relationality...
FIGURES
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 424–443.
Published: 01 November 2011
... learn from the distance irony produces and as the occasion for testing tentative styles of reattachment to the metropole that seek deeper knowledge of British India and late imperial London than colonial exhibitions can display. Reading such texts today calls not for reaffirmations for ironic distance...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 38–46.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., in a state of mixed absorption and critical distance, is the highest form of public colloquy. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Antisocial Fictions: Mill and the Novel
John Plotz
Ian Duncan has argued that one effect of the Scottish Enlightenment was to make
the notion of “fiction” central...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and Crake and other recent novels are reversing this process, drawing the fleshly reality of suffering to the immediate present of the text through various mechanisms of form and content. Placing this shift in relation to poststructuralist theory, I argue that maintaining an ethical distance from...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 546–554.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and literature. Nevertheless, the advantages of marginalization and distance from the mainstream end up becoming precisely the most attractive features in the eyes of an editorial industry and a general public avid for a reformulation of Latin American literature in a global and politically skeptical context...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 169–175.
Published: 01 May 2010
... can openly address anyone, at periodic intervals, with dispatch and presumptive privacy. This new technology for ordinary communication at a distance influenced the novel in many ways. Novels were cast in the form of correspondence by letter; the post facilitated the dissemination of physical novels...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 240–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
... and Aaron Santesso, it further posits “empathetic surveillance” as a figure through which to assess this relationship, because Zweig can frequently be found to experiment with narrative distance and observation where the scene of suffering is concerned. His late writing demonstrates an attempt to work...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 August 2020
... minor characters take part in central spaces while not being contained by them. Their distance from main scenes and settings, captured in passing by a gaze that has no interest in registering these elsewheres in any level of depth, has the effect of making minor characters appear strange, memorable...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 218–239.
Published: 01 August 2022
... among many—is not inevitable and comes with its own significant difficulties. This article shows that even as the novel distances itself from consumerism's mode of preferential choosing, Emma 's representation of preferential choice acknowledges its aesthetic importance in the construction...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 31–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... characters—a cosmopolitan readership who are comparative in mindset and globally aware. Both realist novel and Crimean War journalism make traumatized working-class figures into symbols of a heroic nationhood, even while ultimately remaining distanced from these figures by addressing middle-class readers...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 368–388.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and shifting conceptions of literary character, I trace how the Austenian marriage plot that so crucially shaped the nineteenth-century British novel trains us to be primarily interested in a form of heterosexually structured interiority that measures its depth, in part, through its distance from appetite. ©...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Nathan K. Hensley FAVRET MARY A. , War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2010 ), pp. 262 , cloth, $60.00 , paper, $26.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Media Wars...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and a rotunda ( how can one be sure of one's eyes? ); in the middle distance, someone is hanging from Nelson's Pillar “by his eyelids,” no doubt mercifully punished by a lover safely kept out of sight. Boisterous voices on the street bring the writer to a window that opens onto a serata of January 12, 1910...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 309–311.
Published: 01 November 2007
... that "confer a certain sanitiiing distance," whereas Spielberg
keeps the camera at eye level so that we see devastating carnage. Perhaps her most astute
observation is that the enc~rmousloss that characterizes the image of D-Day in the
American imagination does not tally with the historical data...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 179–203.
Published: 01 August 2006
... world"
pose statements and questions to Du Bois that seem genuinely aimed at collaps-
ing the distance of race by understanding "how it feelfs On the other hand,
however, that Du Bois hears in their advances a construction of himself as a
"problem" implies a competing impulse to re-erect...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
... a
temporal distance between modern and prehistoric subjects that is in line with
the ethnocentric tendencies of evolutionary theory. For Marlow, as for religious
anthropologists before him, traveling in space brings modern people back in time,
to an earlier stage of human evolution. Thus, he infamously...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
... and Repetition: Seven English Novels . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1982 . ———. Thomas Hardy: Distance and Desire . Cambridge : Belknap P of Harvard UP , 1970 . Millgate Michael . Thomas Hardy: A Biography . Rev. ed. Oxford : Clarendon , 1992 . Nelson Ronald J. “Stirring Up Trouble...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 August 2011
... obser-
vation. But what they observe is adults. Or rather, they observe their own distance
from adulthood.
A story James recalled toward the end of his life also describes the function
of the children who are focal characters of the novels and stories of his middle
period. James remembered...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Novels” series in 1831, those revisions have measurably detached the novels from their more locally detailed originals. To make the case that this distancing from local texture produces a specifically aesthetic effect, Rezek pauses in the Cooper/Scott chapter to raise an important theoretical point...
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