...JANET SORENSEN RICHARD A. BARNEY, Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. xii + 402, $49.50. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Improvising Enlightenment RICHARD A. BARNEY...

... of the political economy (centered around the consumption of information) that determines Bouvard and Pécuchet's estate. The novel's structure as an immoralist bildungsroman—in which the protagonists’ faithful pursuit of Enlightenment ideals eventually leads them to directly reject those ideals—corresponds...

...Beth Connors-Manke SMITH CALEB , The Prison and the American Imagination ( New Haven : Yale UP , 2009 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $40.00 ; paperback, $25.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Social Death and Moral Enlightenment caleb smith...

...-Laure . Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2001 . Enchanted Enlightenment JESSE MOLESWORTH, Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic...

...Joseph Drury The performative dimension of Fielding's fiction has often frustrated the attempts of critics to read the machinery of his plot through the lens of rationalist Enlightenment philosophy. Rather than a deity or benevolent magistrate, Fielding's narrator has seemed more like a trickster...

... of character, Trollope supplants older models of social cohesion built around autonomous individuals who form collectives through sympathy and provides a matrix for transforming Enlightenment assumptions about what characters are and how to read them. The impulsivity and mental discontinuity associated...

... force. The essay sketches a genealogy for this representation through Enlightenment theories of sympathy. Confessions of a Justified Sinner narrates the declension of sympathy into a sublime technique that colonizes the other's difference and undoes the self itself. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009...

...Annette Van This essay speculates about the future of the novel and the novel's futurism, focusing on the ethics of this form given its historical links to the emergence of the Enlightenment subject under capitalism and the nation-state. Do we still need or desire the novel? Is the novel still...

... with sentimental fiction, the novel of prejudice draws on Enlightenment theories of toleration to develop a narrative focus on the self-critical and complicit conscience. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 The Novel and Prejudice Sarah Winter In Truth and Method, Hans-Georg Gadamer argues...

... considers Zhou's fiction theory as a part of the transition from the old democratic revolution led by the Chinese bourgeoisie to the new democratic cultural initiative carried out by the enlightened intelligentsia and progressive working people. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press...

...Tom Perrin This article contributes to the formulation of an aesthetics of the so-called middlebrow novel during the early Cold War years, when the term middlebrow was in its widest circulation. It argues that in their work middlebrow authors frequently attempt to adapt the Enlightenment paradigm...

... enlightenment ( nahḍa ) discourse and material culture. Early original Arabic novels were serialized alongside translations, incorporated translated excerpts into their narratives, or were prefaced by comments that situated them in a literary marketplace dominated by translated fiction. This essay reads one...

...Aaron R. Hanlon Andrew Franta , Systems Failure: The Uses of Disorder in English Literature ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2019 ), pp. 232 , cloth, $54.95 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Two different accounts of Enlightenment systems can both be true...

...Jason Solinger Norton Brian Michael , Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment ( Lanham : Bucknell UP , 2012 ) , pp. 168, cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 More than half a century after Ian Watt's...

.... London: Penguin, 1987 . Hume , David . Political Essays . Ed. Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994 . Jacob , Margaret . The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans . Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1981 . Klancher , Jon . “Godwin and the Republican...

...John Richetti Bender John , Ends of Enlightenment . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford UP , 2012 ), pp. 312 , paper, $25.95 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Mastering the Disciplines JOHN BENDER, Ends of Enlightenment (Stanford, CA...

... nothing but the state’s demand for that nega- tion in return. Upon internalizing this collective categorical imperative, the modern subject becomes an anonymous, interchangeable bearer of a universal will to freedom. The Enlightenment subject does not relate to itself as a particular desiring...

... of subjectivity and disavow it, sustaining an unstable illusion of the immaterial heart of selfhood. The relationship between subjects and objects was more permeable and unstable, she argues, than mainstream narratives of Enlightenment ration­ ality and empiricism allow: “In an age of Enlightenment, things...

... reading for scholars of the Romantic novel and Scottish literature, Duncan’s book will also interest any critic concerned more generally with the history of the novel, the emergence of national literatures, the cultural and intellectual legacies of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the rise...

... of the Enlightenment. Nonetheless, I think it is worth offering these responses, trusting that read- ers will judge for themselves. McClure’s readings of the work of Pynchon and DeLillo are thorough and sensitive and well grounded in the scholarship (as was his earlier work on them from the mid-1990s...