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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 470–474.
Published: 01 November 2021
... motivations. As though reviving the epistolary fictions of the eighteenth century, they opted for letters, they explain, the better to make thinking dovetail with feeling, sense with sensibility, and critical work with amateur leisure. They also opt for the letter form the better to pursue what Chihaya calls...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 November 2020
... help to account for contemporary novels' continued interest in the letter. Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 epistolary form delay silence Jean-François Lyotard the differend Daily communication today is predominantly digital, but novels continue to be interested in paper letters...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 478–482.
Published: 01 November 2013
... and
spatial coherence” in a Dickens novel must be understood in light of the plurality of simul-
taneous activity made possible by public transport’s regularization of movement (12). In
“dismantling” epistolary form in Pickwick (79), Dickens recognized the potential of public
transport to create...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 216–220.
Published: 01 August 2004
...-defined mask of "propriety" and "convention"
(chapter 4). The book begins with the novel, but its generic interests are wide ranging: from
conversational tracts to private journals, to sonnets.
Arguing against the public privacy that Habermas locates in Richardson's epistolary
form, Spacks...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
... letters offer a chance to assess the forms of interiority Richardson was borrowing from the letter form around his time period. Furthermore, as post-Richardson documents, they suggest what letter writers might be borrowing from the epistolary forms offered by his novels. 20 One letter, in its...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 152–157.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., and it is one that leads Macpherson to downplay Richardson’s epistolary form in
preference of the logic of his story. It is a cruel logic. If Defoe insisted on strict liability in his
fictions, Richardson—who printed a number of legal texts—responded to an even stricter
version thereof: “felony murder...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
... powerlessness. Thus even as Richardson insists that the epistolary form of his novels gives readers direct access into the characters’ minds and hearts, his novels constantly remind readers—perhaps unwittingly—that these heartfelt letters are subject to violation as they enter the world of circulation...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 351–359.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in Britain and received favorable assessments in the British literary press and elsewhere. As I imagined my framing of the course, I Love Dick , with its epistolary form, playful, enigmatic use of the first person, incorporation of lurid personal details, and sly theoretical savvy, seemed an ideal work...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 221–223.
Published: 01 August 2004
... narrative strategies compete with, adapt and render extinct other forms in the liter-
ary marketplace. Price asks us to consider why certain forms, such as the epistolary novel,
die out and in what forms they are resurrected, such as in Sir Walter Scott's "historicizing
the epistolary novel" in his...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 May 2013
... such an outcome involves
the domestication of the barbarized master, returned to manners by way of the
virtuous effect of the servant’s epistolary manufacture. In dialogue with Jean-Luc
Nancy, the late Jacques Derrida devoted a long essay to the multiple figural effects
2 I follow Michael McKeon’s...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., epistolary form and corrected by Fielding’s third-person
narrative: ‘‘No one could ever read Blifil as the hero of Tom Jones, as some readers
had demonstrably made a hero of Clarissa’s arch-villain, Lovelace’’ (xxi). Fair
enough. But we are likely to be struck first by the oddity of the comparison (Blifil...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 485–488.
Published: 01 November 2021
... standing. On the other hand, authors’ attempts to render Black characters as less than human “were constrained by the literary form of the novel, with its Romantic-era emphasis on vivid representations of interiority” (110). As in her interpretation of Scott's use of epistolary narration in Redgauntlet...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 442–446.
Published: 01 November 2024
...David Glover [email protected] Perry Anderson , Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust, and Other Literary Forms ( London : Verso , 2022 ), pp. 224 , cloth, $24.95 . Copyright © 2024 by Novel, Inc. 2024 At first sight, the subtitle of this new collection of essays...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of corollary questions: How do the forms of attention and imagining that are fostered by the extended form of the novel correspond to the attention and temporality of everyday life? How are the materiality and mobility of the book (typically a small and portable object) bound up with the kinds of object-worlds...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 May 2009
... British Post Office as a fertile precondi-
tion for the flowering of the post-epistolary realist novel. Having profitably juxtaposed
the printed ephemera of prepaid letter sheets and the illustrated wrappers for Charles
Dickens’s installments, Menke turns to two close readings, the first an essay...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 5–17.
Published: 01 August 2007
... . Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987 . Fiedler , Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel . New York: Anchor, 1960 . Fisher , Philip . Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1985 . Gilroy , Paul . The Black...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 104–124.
Published: 01 August 2007
..., rather than a stable narrator who
tells the story at an epistemological distance. The loosely epistolary form of
Wieland and Edgar Huntly-both of which are long first-person narratives
comprising one side of a fictional correspondence-allows Brown to take this
further by directly...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 295–297.
Published: 01 November 2005
... specimens of men, / .. . all the colours which the sun bestows, / And
every character of form and face," inchding "Negro Ladies in white muslin gowns" and
"Albinos, painted Indians, Dwarves" (The Prelude, Book VII). Felicity Nussbaum's The
Limits of the Human joins recent books in asking how...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 419–435.
Published: 01 November 2020
... by Richardson. Elizabeth Curren, writes Hayes further, has a “mystified belief in the privileged status of epistolary communication as an especially direct and honest form” ( 138 ). Finally, he draws a parallel (encouraged by hints from Coetzee) between Age of Iron and Cervantes's Don Quixote . Both books...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 508–511.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., which had the effect of removing it from the print marketplace. Only in this new, secularized publishing sphere could novels finally come to be seen as a fully distinct form, severing their longstanding connection to religious literature. For much of the book, then, Stein's theory is not a theory...
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