... of that Pleasant Art . Ed. Audrey Bilger. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2003 . Davidoff , Leonore . The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette, and the Season . London: Croom Helm, 1973 . Davidoff , Leonore , and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850...

...SAIKAT MAJUMDAR JOHN MARX, The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005), pp. 252, cloth, $68.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Reviews The Decline of Britain and the Rise of English JOHN MARX...

... religious-political currents, I argue that the novel's marriage plot emerged as both a cultural agent of the Erastian state and an expression of a highly labile, conservative, patriot opposition. It did so, therefore, as an English marriage plot which placed Anglican ritual and relations between vicars...

...CAROLINE REITZ Bad Cop/Good Cop: Godwin, Mill and the Imperial Origins of the English Detective CAROLINE REITZ Our understanding of detective fiction as a strictly domestic genre takes its cue from the standard line...

...Daylanne English Aida Levy-Hussen , How to Read African American Literature: Post–Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation ( New York : New York UP , 2016 ), pp. 211 , paper, $26.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 With her excellent, generous...

...Daylanne K. English © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press GOYAL YOGITA , Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 ), pp. 288 , cloth, $85.00 . Diaspora and the Politics of Genre yogita goyal, Romance...

...James F. English Sarah Brouillette , UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2019 ), pp. 192 , paper, $25.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Readers of an American literary journal like Novel might be forgiven for wondering why Sarah...

...Daylanne K. English In this essay I offer a temporal-philosophical and literary-political reading of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins detective novel series. African American literature has conventionally been understood as following its own timeline; however, ascribing a distinct temporality to black...

... Anglo-Celt" (4). In this case, at least, Valente believes that blood does rnat- ter, and that Stoker's sense of self was fractured along ethnic lines, and in a particularly gendered fashion. Thus where we tend to recognize Stoker's idealized version of himself in his hyper-manly and English...

...Gayle Rogers This essay analyzes the infamously strange dialogue of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), in which characters speak English through a modified version of Spanish syntax, false cognates, and peculiar diction. It argues that Hemingway's creation of an Anglo-Spanish literary dialect...

... that saturated the streets of Victorian London and as a metaphor for Chancery's waste and dysfunction. Dickens's novel turns to the figure of mud to dramatize how the very institutions that are meant to ground and give shape to English society turn out to be the very apparatuses by which this social body is de...

...Philip Tsang Abstract The article situates David Mitchell's imagination of planetary interconnectedness in the historical development of global English. It argues that Cloud Atlas projects a denationalized, centrifugal vision of the world, only to entrench it in a cohesive, centripetal anglophone...

...Maud Ellmann For Britons during World War II, war was in the air, in the form of bombing raids, but also on the air, in the form of news and propaganda on the radio. “Everyday War” shows how Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner respond to war in the air by turning to the English countryside...

...Jed Esty In English and comparative literature, the question of realism has reemerged in the last fifteen years as vital to readers and writers of the global novel. A realist turn, so-called, implies a shift in tastes, canons, and markets; it also entails a heightened form of disciplinary attention...

... at the historical moment when the phrase losing face was entering common usage in English, The Monster confronts the invention and spread of this figure (and others) in novelistic terms, as a post-Reconstruction small-town tragedy. Ultimately, the processes by which phrases are made and come to preside...

...Ian Duncan The publication of English translations of Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1971) and The Historical Novel (1962) inaugurated a major development in North American criticism of the past half century: the turn to Continental theory for an identification of the novel...

... audiences and English novelists presented an exaggerated version of a gap between readers and authors that an emerging consumerist culture was making apparent throughout the transatlantic world. Understanding this broader context helps explain why the late works of both Dickens and Du Maurier seem to echo...

... audience. Vernacular anglophone realism cultivates a sense of natality without losing the author's linguistic and geopolitical security in the English language, therefore allowing the global South writer to address both Western and non-Western audiences. While this might seem like a welcome development—one...

... . . . cannot hope to take the smallest step.” Such a limit is seemingly crossed in one of the most difficult and quite possibly the strangest of passages in J. M. Coetzee's fiction: the ending of Foe . This book's self-conscious re-presentation of the origins of the English novel (and of Defoe's inauguration...

...Seo Hee Im Abstract “The Ghost in the Account Book” claims that the imperial fiction of Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner rejects accounting as a totalizing logic and, by extension, questions the English novel's complicity in propagating faith in that false logic. Accounting, which had remained...