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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 62–85.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Zarena Aslami This essay argues that Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders registers a historic shift in the political imaginary of late nineteenth-century Britain: the emergence of a fantasy of the state as a heroic actor endowed with the capacity to step in and ameliorate one's pain. While...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 426–435.
Published: 01 November 2017
...John Plotz This piece asks what relation the turn toward a new era of patrimonial capitalism—traced in Thomas Piketty's recent work—bears to the modern rise of fantasy worlds and speculative fiction. The problem of justifying distinction in a world that presumes common humanity beneath surface...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 August 2009
... forms of authorship that might emerge from a seizure of the Indian hand. I explore this fantasy in Flora Annie Steel's Anglo Indian novel The Potter's Thumb (1894), a text that simultaneously warns against the implications of creating a hybrid British and South Asian creative body. I conclude that her...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 304–310.
Published: 01 August 2009
... in which an emergent fashion industry summons women to abandon the corset in public and enter the fantasy worlds of modern dress designs that accentuate the body and stimulate its desires, so too are novelists issuing similar summons. Such sensational novels as Bram Stoker's Dracula and George du Maurier's...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 May 2010
... aspirations animating William Faulkner's Depression-era achievement. In this case, the guiding claim is that his novelistic enterprise culminates in a reflexive analysis of the fantasy organizing his literary labors throughout the period. More precisely, “The Bear” in Go Down Moses reveals the extent to which...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 381–400.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the real, defined by convention and consensus, is ultimately indistinguishable from fantasy. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Abravanel , Genevieve . “Hardy's Transatlantic Wessex: Constructing the Local in The Mayor of Casterbridge.” Novel 39 . 1 ( 2005 ): 97 –116. Alberti...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 429–448.
Published: 01 November 2016
... their American misreaders, reimagining social nightmares as pleasant fantasies. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Charles Dickens George Du Maurier advertising sensationalism reception The exhilaration of this attempt to think beyond the structures of the novel easily becomes...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 292–307.
Published: 01 August 2018
...—a grappling that is necessary for democracy—has, in neoliberal politics and aesthetics alike, been largely jettisoned in favor of expediency and the fantasy of total individual freedom. Turning to a reading of Rachel Kushner's novel The Flamethrowers , the essay finds that Kushner plays with the functions...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Paul Hurh In recent criticism of Herman Melville's Pierre , Pierre's incestuous desire poses a challenge to the sympathetic model of democratic sociality: in transgressing filial distinctions, it erases the difference that makes sympathy possible and illustrates a limit point to the fantasy...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 343–367.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in a transformed public sphere. In Arthur Mervyn , the yellow fever epidemic works as a fantasy of exposure, an impossible kind of social transparency that ultimately serves as a map for comprehending the mysterious workings of a “connected age.” © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 383–402.
Published: 01 November 2014
... maiden of Prague, Nina Balatka 's unconvincing marriage plot uses the same terms that make Trollope's representation of the novelist as both baker and barrister something of a fantasy. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Altick Richard D. The Presence...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 403–421.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of cynicism on the critical scene marks a moment of epistemological fantasy, in which the critic implies a form of access to the motivations of the cynical character or the cynical writer. The accusation of cynicism, then, poses as a gesture of unmasking, one requiring a concomitant cynicism on the part...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to think about the mundane fantasies with which readers invest their activity. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Prosaic novelistic knowledge imaginary “And what is the title of the book?” asked Don Quixote. “ The Life of Gines de Pasamonte ,” replied that hero...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 May 2024
...-ended sense of futurity for post-extraction sites and their inhabitants. At the dawn of the Anthropocene, Eliot's redevelopmental bildungsroman counters the capitalist fantasy of endless, extractive progress. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Novel, Inc. 2024 extraction...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and empirical research, the management and mastery of information, and the drive toward judgment that is unclouded by passion, self-interest, or imagination. At first, we might think that Clinton was being politely postmodern: she could have said that Trump was living in a “fantasy”; instead she laid out...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin-de-Siècle Feminisms . Ed. Richardson and Willis. London: Palgrave, 2001 . 1 –38. Rive , Richard , ed. Olive Schreiner Letters, Volume 1:1871–1899 . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988 . Rose , Jacqueline . States of Fantasy . Oxford: Clarendon, 1996...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Gauri Viswanathan JOHN KUCICH, Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 270, cloth, $37.50. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Reviews Imperialism at Home john kucich...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 409–428.
Published: 01 November 2016
... just goes on spinning within his interior fantasy world” (qtd. in Roquet 106 ). And in his 2006 monograph, the eminent scholar Komori Yōichi accused Murakami of both ethical reductionism and relativism, on one hand, and of constantly murdering women in his novels, on the other...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 500–504.
Published: 01 November 2011
... as a fantasy “of escape from time’s movement” (4). Garcha uses Mary Russell Mitford’s series of sketches, Our Village (1819), as an early example of how the literary sketch invoked the fragmentation and speed of modern life in its form and offered an alternative temporality both through its depiction...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 270–286.
Published: 01 August 2021
... feelings that masquerade as a form of self-protection (43–44). Crystallizing her thoughts on hatred, Ahmed advances the concept of a “fantasy of violation” ( 44 ). This fantasy encapsulates the narrative of a persistent and continuing (threat of) violation of “the pure [white] bodies” (44), which...