...MARY HONG Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Austen , Jane . Emma . New York: Penguin, 1985 . Barthes , Roland . “The Reality Effect...

...Amanpal Garcha Abstract In its depictions of characters' processes of decision-making, Jane Austen's Emma incorporates a model of choice that later came to dominate neoclassical economics. This model is preferential choice, which asserts that individuals choose based on their subjective...

... . Austen , Jane . Pride and Prejudice . Ed. Vivien Jones. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996 . Austen , Jane . Emma . Ed. Fiona Stafford. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996 . Brown , Julia Prewitt . “Civilization and the Contentment of Emma.” Jane Austen: Modern Critical Views . Ed. Harold...

... and literary character who haunts modern fiction: the child of the plebeian who, like Emma Bovary or Septimus Warren Smith, proves able to live any form of experience. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Auerbach Erich . Mimesis: The Representation of Reality...

...Wendy Veronica Xin Abstract This essay reads several “hidden” scenes in Jane Austen's Emma . Willfully drawing attention to stray details—an impulsive trip to London to get his hair cut, the mysterious gift of a piano, and a broken pair of spectacles—Frank Churchill uses these incidents to turn...

...John Sampson Abstract “Untimely Love” reassesses the aesthetic choices and political implications of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (1920), first by highlighting a surprising overlap between Wharton and the anarcho-feminist Emma Goldman. Wharton's novelistic critique of New York society's...

... as patriotism and national character, translation of self, translatable heroines, and the heroine as translator, with reference to Pride and Prejudice , Emma , Northanger Abbey , Mansfield Park , and Persuasion . Through this multiple approach, Austen's fiction becomes visible as deeply involved in metaphorical...

... : Oxford UP , 1987 . ———. How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719–1900 . New York : Columbia UP , 2005 . Austen Jane . Emma . 1815 . Ed. Kinsley James . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2003 . ———. Juvenilia . Ed. Sabor Peter . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2006...

... to divide or exclude (see Brown 314–16). The “periodization strategy,” as Russell Berman puts it rather polemically, is “designed to separate the readers of th[is] present from the claimants of the past”—that is, from another present identified as different and over (325). In Austen’s Emma, Mr...

..., 1550–1750 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986 . Austen , Jane . Emma . Ed. Ronald Blythe. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972 . Austen , Jane . Mansfield Park . New York: Bantam, 1983 . Austen , Jane . Persuasion . New York: Signet, 1964 . Austen , Jane . Pride...

...John McGowan Sayeau Michael , Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2013 ), pp. 272, cloth, £55.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Emma Bovary longs for an event that will free her from the prison...

... will attempt in this essay is to elaborate some of its ramifications. It turns out literally to have been impossible to read the whole novel. One of the novel's most celebrated and notorious moments—the fiacre passage, wherein Emma Bovary and Léon Dupuis take an aimless, six-hour-long carriage ride around...

... of these calculations, grounding them in their emotional and social foundations while always simultaneously demonstrating the consequences and limits of a purely pecuniary assessment. Not only does Austen seem to mock Malthus in the famous opening line of Pride and Prejudice , but her fourth published novel, Emma...

... dilation of detail and delaying narrative drive, a descriptive mode that was particularly suited to the requirements of natural theology. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Austen , Jane . Emma . Ed. Kinsley James. New York: Oxford UP, 2003 . Barthes , Roland . The Rustle...

... , Trans. John K. Ryan New York: Doubleday, 1960 . Austen , Jane . Emma . 1815. Ed. Stephen M. Parrish New York: Norton, 2000 . Bergson , Henri . Time and Free Will . 1889. Trans. F. L. Pogson New York: Macmillan, 1910 . Chaucer , Geoffrey . The Canterbury Tales...

... work of a new radical sensibility inherent in the form itself, regardless of content. While Emma Bovary's romantic dreams can be aligned with the aspirations of workers for emancipation from drudgery, the plot of Emma's story enacts no heroic enlargement. In general, while the new aesthetic regime...

..., of dark felt and gray wool blend, converged into a unit that grew larger and larger as it approached. The paired phenomenon seemed unstoppable” (6); “[n]o literary trick could separate them” (85). For Rancière, Emma Bovary's “crime” is not moral but aesthetic: not adultery, per se, but her refusal...

...-Century France . London : Verso , 2012 . ———. “Ten Theses on Politics.” Theory and Event 5 . 3 ( 2001 ) < http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v005/5.3ranciere.html >. ———. “Why Emma Bovary Had to Be Killed.” Critical Inquiry 34 ( 2008 ): 233 – 48 . Rousseau...

... that includes Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , Henry Fielding's Tom Jones , Frances Burney's Camilla , Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels, and Austen's Emma . From its pairing of Burney's fiction and Tina Fey's sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to its epilogue, which moves from Austen to Amy Heckerling's...

... Richardson's Clarissa , Jane Austen's Emma ), puts these works in a new lineage that makes both familiar novels and the less familiar seem new. She establishes a through-line of fictional works centered around protagonists who fail to feel, starting with the stock figure of the prudish woman in late...