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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the transformation of “virtue” into a gendered property. 15 See G. E. Mingay on the marriage market as a critical element of the eighteenth-century landowning system. 16 I am indebted to Armstrong for this idea. She writes that the novel's rise as a “respectable” genre, beginning...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Sean Silver Abstract This article positions the eighteenth‐century novel alongside contemporary developments in the modeling of complex systems, including Leonhard Euler's solution to the Königsberg bridge problem and William Hogarth's serial engravings. Unlike studies that apply network theory...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 337–342.
Published: 01 August 2009
... do not exemplify narrative desire, as Peter Brooks argued in Reading for the Plot as much as frustrate it. A close reading of Tristram Shandy shows that Laurence Sterne intended his novel to resist what he saw as a series of related mid-eighteenth-century cultural developments: a paradigm shift...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 497–503.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Susan S. Lanser Scholars have rightly argued that one underpinning of the novel as it “rises” in the eighteenth century is its investment in consolidating heteronormativity. Reading narrative form as a site of sexual content, however, makes the case for a sapphic undertext embedded primarily...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the assumptions of the eighteenth-century novel (and scholarly accounts of it), the connection between witnessing and truth in fiction came under investigation in the Romantic-era novel. Maturin's novel is only one of a clutch of what one might call antihistorical narratives that appeared in these decades...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kyoko Takanashi Taking Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey as a case study, this article explores how mid-eighteenth-century novels of sensibility theorized mediation—and by extension, the very act of reading. Sentimental fiction draws attention to the instability of individual feeling...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 245–252.
Published: 01 August 2009
...George Boulukos The rise of the middle class in eighteenth-century England has long been called into question in British historiography. This essay, following the lead of Dror Wahrman's Imagining the Middle Class , reads the significance of claims linking the novel and the middle class rather than...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 425–441.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Katarina O'Briain Abstract This article argues that Frances Burney's long, diffuse works of fiction develop an ethics of accident within the history of the novel. Whereas critics from the eighteenth century to today have privileged “art”—in the sense of careful, deliberate skill and conduct...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 167–185.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon This article turns to the space of the colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to offer an alternative theory of the novel—one that defines colonial geographies as constitutive of the novel as a genre rather than as marginal and inessential. In looking...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 218–239.
Published: 01 August 2022
... ). 7 According to Butler, eighteenth-century sentimental novels such as Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling or Laurence Sterne's fiction deemphasize the “decisive” choices of protagonists and thus structured plot itself in order to focus on the “scene” of a character's “state of mind” ( 14–15...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 497–501.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Sarah Tindal Kareem MOLESWORTH JESSE , Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 ), pp. 286 , cloth, $95.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited During Simon . Modern...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 300–304.
Published: 01 August 2021
... welcome home in subgeneric than in literary fiction, so-called” (133), that is perhaps because dystopian young-adult fiction best carries on the world-making legacy of eighteenth-century fiction. Chapter 4’s discussion of Burney's novel of manners, Camilla , drives home Hershinow's sense...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 111–115.
Published: 01 May 2012
... is at once a representative of the court and of the citizenry, and
she is read as everything from a sign of corrupting influence to a positive symbol for the
monarch himself. The “protestant whore” as invoked in early to mid-eighteenth-century
novels also comes to represent a long-standing...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins PARK JULIE , The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2010 ), pp. 312 , cloth, $50.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Blackwell Mark . The Secret Life of Things...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 31–37.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Lisa O'Connell My paper re-historicizes the eighteenth-century marriage plot by shifting attention away from both the history of literary genres and the modes of social history that have generally informed accounts of the rise of the novel. Drawing instead on recent historiography of the period's...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 152–157.
Published: 01 May 2012
... is admittedly intricate, for Macpherson offers
more than a new theory of the novel, more too than a model of criticism at the crossroads
of law and literature. Here is a profound work of moral and aesthetic philosophy poised
to transform not just the way we read eighteenth-century narrative but the way we...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 216–220.
Published: 01 August 2004
...RUTH MACK PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS, Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003), pp. 256, $36.00. WOLFRAM SCHMIDGEN, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002), pp. 274, $65.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 550–554.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in eighteenth-century Britain, as the new science and exploration challenged the old pieties that explained the nature of the world and the universe. In particular, she examines the kind of disbelief—of wonder—evoked by the new genre of the novel, a genre that both engaged its readers in participatory disbelief...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2021
... fail (166). We can certainly understand the failed handshake as a kind of system breakdown, just as we can understand (as in A Sentimental Journey and Caleb Williams ) a text that ends with unresolved problems as a reflection of the eighteenth-century novel's resistance to tidy systematizing...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 216–222.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and the temporality of jazz or, more specifically, between prolepsis and parabasis. My essay looks at Paul de Man's and Georg Lukács's assertions that the novel is an essentially proleptic form and argues that the specific form of prolepsis it brings with it from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is out...
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