... and technofetishistic ones. Using these novels as test cases, the essay unpacks the relation between the means of distributing death in our late imperial moment and the regime of perception proper to our dying empire. I traced a triangle in my mind up from our restaurant table to the satellite in space that would...

... the object it attempts to represent—namely the social totality itself—is not an empirical entity and cannot be made to materialize as such in front of the individual viewer. In effect, the new figure we are asked to supply continues to suggest something other than itself. —Fredric Jameson...

...DANA D. NELSON AMY KAPLAN, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 256, cloth, $37.50. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 American Empire AMY KAFLAN, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making...

... across the colonized world in the early twentieth century, which were poised to implement more imaginative registers of the human and freedom. My reading of how the racial legacies of empire inflect the narrative frames deployed in the two novels I have discussed here, and the kinds of interventions...

... for Democracy . 1951. The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster. Ed. Oliver Stallybrass. Vol. 11 . London: Edward Arnold, 1972 . Furbank , P. N. E. M. Forster: A Life . 2 vols . London: Secker and Warburg, 1977 –78. Guha , Ranajit . “Not at Home in Empire.” Critical Inquiry 23 (Spring...

... , Joseph . “Tales of the Sea.” Notes on Life and Letters . London: J. M. Dent, 1921 . Conroy , Mark . “Colonial Self-Fashioning in Conrad: Writing and Remembrance in Lord Jim.” L’Epoque Conradienne 19 ( 1993 ): 25 –36. Constantine , Stephen . “Empire Migration and Social Reform...

...NICHOLAS DALY CAROLINE REITZ, Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2004), pp. 184, cloth, $59.95, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 The Empire and the Police CAROLINE REITZ, Detecting...

...RYAN TRIMM JED ESTY, A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004), pp. 285, cloth, $55.00, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 The Incredible Shrinking Empire FD ES~,A Shrinking Island: Moderilism...

.... of narrative fiction from the iversity of Nebraska Press Reviews The Novel's Empirical World FRANC0 h?ORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volulne I: History, Geography, and C~dltlire (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 928, cloth, $125.00, paper...

...Emily Laskin Abstract This article examines Kipling's 1901 novel Kim in light of the period's contemporary geopolitical events, arguing that the novel imagines both the end of the British Empire and a utopian state in which empire is static and eternal. The essay uncovers a parallel between...

... unobtrusively immanent to realist novels of empire such as Mansfield Park and Great Expectations , surfaces to the diegetic level and becomes available for critical scrutiny in high modernist novels such as Heart of Darkness or Absalom, Absalom! Drawing from writings by Max Weber (on guarantees of calculability...

... empire's devastating cycles of scarcity and waste. The Big House in Watt is the estate of Mr. Knott, to which apparently “nothing could be added . . . and from it nothing taken away.” As his servant Watt discovers, however, the high quality of life inside the home is ensured by the continual production...

... about what classification looks like or how it proceeds. Novels seem to manifest typicality while pulling away from taxonomic endeavors in the empirical world. If taxonomy aims at systematically arranging things in order to express how they are related to each other, typicality in the novel proceeds...

... the labor of enslaved women was indispensable. Placing Namık Kemal's İntibah in conversation with other novels contemporaneous with it, the article underscores the interlacement between the genre‐conscious crafting of novelistic writing in the nineteenth‐century Ottoman Empire and the ubiquitous presence...

... conspicuous absence in The Secret Agent (1907) burdens irony with the obligation to respond alone to the late imperial culture Conrad characterizes as governed by fetishism. By contrast, curiosity emerges in Forster's review “The Birth of an Empire” (1924) not as irony's naive opposite but as that which may...

... or charlatan manipulating a narrative full of spectacular coincidences and implausibilities. Historians of science, however, have shown that performances with spectacular machines played a key role in establishing the epistemological authority of empirical science in the eighteenth century. Like Fielding...

... not as a testament to bourgeois inwardness and decadence but as an artifact whose form was partially determined by objective social and historical conditions in the colonial and metropolitan contact zones of the Age of Empire. Works Cited Adorno , Theodor W. Notes to Literature . Vol. 1 . Trans...

...Gage McWeeny The oblique interrelations of characters through complex social networks—the Empire of the Little which so much occupies mid-nineteenth-century realism—constituted for fiction a “new social continent,” as Fredric Jameson has suggested. But this continent has more than one discoverer...

.... Shelley's novel, much more forthrightly political than Cooper's, is not about sequence and unfolding but about withdrawal and implosion. By adopting a different approach to the problems of empire, race, and historical melancholy than Cooper does, Shelley is forced, as it were, into greater formal innovation...

... of literature after 9/11, they are never fully able to come to terms with the issues of class, poverty, empire, and religion they constantly evoke. While Falling Man and Saturday ask important questions about the place of literature in a post-9/11 world, both novels ultimately fail to assign a meaningful...