...Jeffrey Allen Tucker Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999) tells the story of a black female elevator inspector who “intuits” the machines' safety. The protagonist searches for both those responsible for the apparent sabotage of an elevator for which she was responsible and the blueprints...

.... As a detective story, however, Whitehead's novel is unconventional. Lila Mae is the first Black woman to be employed as an elevator inspector in The Intuitionist 's alternate reality; she is under suspicion for causing an elevator she inspected to malfunction and go into “total freefall” ( Whitehead 35...

... in Sentimental Comedy.” Eighteenth-Century Life 10.3 ( 1986 ): 122 –44. Warner , William B. “The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History.” ELH 59.3 ( 1992 ): 577 –96. Warner , William B. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684...

... without; when ‘‘development’’ might now entail ‘‘voyages out’’ to and from tropical zones, through naval corridors, and across trading stations and international cities; when indi- vidual fates could be suddenly elevated or dashed down with no apparent regard for ‘‘char- acter’’ in either case—then any...

... who pigeonholed his dialect poetry as an authentic form of this tradition. In this essay, I argue that the primary weapon Dunbar employed to challenge these two factions was the doctrine of racial uplift, which claimed that human races could be "elevated" in moral, intellectual, and physical...

... Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain (1684–1750) (1998), and his volume, coedited with Clifford Siskin, is This Is Enlightenment (2010). sarah winter is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs and author of Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic...

... and vitality, forces that animate a thoroughly democratic marketplace of individual possibility and eco- nomic progress, in which skill, genius, and strength elevate the inherently worthy to social prominence in a process of natural evolution. However, Wyckoff's sanguine attitude begins...

... on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2007 . Matthiessen F. O. The James Family: Including Selections from the Writings of Henry James, Senior, William, Henry, and Alice James . New York : Knopf , 1947 . McGurl Mark . The Novel Art: Elevations of American...

... capacity to contain and transform cul- tural discourses, such critics reaffirm a model of modernism that reaches over the great divide for popular material and makes such appropriations visible in a way that endorses its elevation above popular culture. Lawrence Rainey and Joyce Wexler...

... interweaves ethnicity with class concerns to indi- cate "the generating of ever new locus points for bodily necessity and crude reality, against which cultural elevation can define and redefine itself" (81). In a fascinating reading of The Wings of the Dove, Barrish shows how Milly Thiel's physical...

... . New York: MacMillan, 1917 . Warner , William . Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain . Berkeley: U of California P, 1998 . How the Novel Became Middle Class: A History of Histories of the Novel George Boulukos The sociological...

... or The Children of the Abbey. As Richard Cronin and Dorothy Macmillan point out, the last two works are romances in which orphaned heroines find themselves elevated through marriages attendant upon the discovery of their noble births, whereas the former is a cautionary tale of a humble maid who nearly...

... from themselves” that elevate aesthetic realism over social statistics. Con- cerned to distinguish the realist novel from the sociological modes whose insights it apportions to itself, Middlemarch here interrupts its story to draft its characters into a quick public service announcement...

... and whose theory of “unpleasure” propels its broadest argument: what “marks the modernist period in the genealogy of pleasure is that unpleasure and difficult pleasure are elevated as aesthetic practices that require extraordinary kinds of reading practices and often entail a hostile relationship...

... in Sea of Poppies . 6 It is worth noting that Jameson sees this temporal structure as the most apt one for the contemporary historical novel, using the image of the elevator from the film Inception: “The historical novel today must be seen as an immense elevator that moves up and down in time...

... not function similarly, James ultimately attains a seemingly impossible goal in his aesthetically elevated masterpiece: he represents a major choice in a plot centered on choosing that does not seem to serve the purpose of advancing the plot. This important choice is Isabel's unfortunate decision to marry...

... name. Buchanan intimates that reasserting—or, perhaps more accurately, recognizing— Sophia’s prominence in Tom Jones gives us a considerably more Richardsonian Fielding, a Fielding who, for all his vulgarity, betrays an essential interest in vir- tue unalloyed. Of course, most simply, elevating...

...`re’s method—pertinently but irreverently—as ‘‘a certain shy- ness [elevated] into a methodological principle’’ (164). 190 NOVEL SUMMER 2014 Panagia, ‘‘is not a project of the understanding, and to the extent that philosophy desires understanding, it must remain tethered...

... unusually agitated; the dangerous rifle fell from its commanding elevation, and after a few moments of vain struggling, the form of the savage was seen swinging in the wind, while he still grasped a ragged and naked branch of the free with hands clenched in desperation. (74) "At length...

... and fitting that the writer who most accedes to a market logic that elevates novels beyond their immediate economics, who, that is, imagmes her writing's effects are ideational first and material second, sets out to save the Jews from English stereotyping that identifies tkm with grubbing materiality...