... . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997 . Trumpener , Katie . Bardic Nationalism: the Romantic Novel and the British Empire . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997 . The Geography of Violence: Historical Fiction and the National Question SIMON EDWARDS We had rather be Sir Walter...

... Century..” Reflections . Ed. Peter Demetz. New York: Schocken Books, 1986 . 146 –62. Butler , Judith . Gender Trouble . New York: Routledge, 1990 . Castle , Terry . Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction . Stanford...

... . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997 . Melancholy, Race, and Sovereign Exemption in Early American Fiction JONATHAN ELMER In his wide-ranging and moving study, Specters of the Atlanfic: Firznnce Capital, Slavery, adthe Philosoplzy of Histovy, Ian Baucom argues that romanticism consti...

... of individualism, the current essay argues that Dickens's fiction instead performs an ongoing and intentionally failed experiment in population management. The Dickensian novel generates an apparent surplus of biological life that allows its narratives to reconstitute the social body in new terms; rather than...

...Sean McCann LEONARD CASSUTO, Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (New York: Columbia UP, 2008), pp. 344, cloth, $79.50, paper, $13.75. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Love and Death in Detective Fiction leonard cassuto, Hard-Boiled...

...Kevin Seidel By grappling with secular and religious approaches to Defoe's fiction, this essay describes the theory of fiction that Defoe writes his way toward during the course of his three-book Crusoe novel, which includes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther...

...Marc Redfield ROWLINSON MATTHEW , Real Money and Romanticism ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 ), pp. 266 , cloth, $89.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Fiction, Restriction, and Real Money MATTHEW ROWLINSON, Real Money...

...Eleni Coundouriotis This article discusses the chronotope of humanitarian emergencies in realist fiction. Novels that depict the effects of prolonged and extreme insecurity often include improbable figures, characters in which they invest a hope for the future and who are presented as inventive...

... . Segal , Hanna . Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein . New York: Basic, 1974 . Trollope , Anthony . The Way We Live Now . 1875. London: Penguin, 1994 . Envy and Victorian Fiction William A. Cohen Structuralist accounts of the classic novel have long noted...

... as nothing more than an efficacious fiction used to mask a state of perpetual war, one in which civilians are the primary targets and anything that can be seen can be destroyed. (The latter attitude, curiously, is held both by military elites and by many of their critics in war and conflict studies...

... What's next, shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology? —Jakobson, on the prospect of hiring a fiction writer to teach literature at Harvard “But why do we say nothing?” Ujunwa asked. She raised her voice and looked at the others. “Why do we always say nothing?” —Adichie, “Jumping Monkey...

...Margaret Cohen From Ian Watt's reading of Robinson Crusoe , novel critics valuing realism as the highest expression of the form have tried to domesticate adventure fiction and the rambling dispositions of its protagonists. In contrast, this essay argues that such rambling explores a foundational...

...Naomi Mandel This essay examines the role of fact and the injunction of fidelity to it in fiction about violent historical events. Taking as its starting point Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel, Everything Is Illuminated (set in the wake of the Holocaust), and his 2005 novel, Extremely Loud...

... of publication, or the setting of the work. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 Peter Kimani Esi Edugyan realism historical fiction twenty-first-century novels By dhow, foot, and rail, a Punjabi indentured laborer travels from British India to East Africa...

.... By attending to the many configurations that could emerge from the volatile state of the present, scenario fiction seeks to preempt unmediated outcomes and insure the novel's critical extension into all possible futures. Recognizing the power of a future figured not by its relation to the past but an as-yet...

... Works Cited Achebe , Chinua . A Man of the People . Oxford: Heinemann, 1966 . ———. Hopes and Impediments . New York: Doubleday, 1988 . ———. Things Fall Apart . Oxford: Heinemann, 1958 . Andrade , Susan Z . The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988...

... a biopolitical tool of the state, seen as a positive good in its spur to labor, as well as a central topos of an emerging modernist style of fiction that reflects, draws attention to, and critiques those biopolitical mechanisms. Notwithstanding his criticisms of a society that leaves artists hungry, Gissing...

... Sentimental Fiction MARIANNE NOBLE, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 240, cloth, $55.00, paper, $18.95. When James Baldwin pronounced Uncle Tom's Cabin "a very bad novel," his condemnation was not merely aesthetic. For Baldwin...

... of North Carolina P, 2001 . Benston , Kimberly W. Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism . London and New York: Routledge, 2000 . Butler , Octavia . Parable of the Sower . New York: Warner, 1993 . Delany , Samuel R. “Generic Protocols: Science Fiction...

...David Attwell CLARKSON CARROL , J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 ), pp. 224 , cloth, $89.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Fiction and the Linguistic Turn CARROL CLARKSON, J. M. Coetzee...