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...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...

... the authority of traditional historical methods or narratives but to challenge their claim as exclusive arbiters of historical truth. To make his argument for the validity of historical fiction as a legitimate source of historical knowledge, Dalley asks readers to rethink their understanding of realism. He...

...DANIEL Y. KIM COLLEEN LYE, America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005), pp. 368, cloth, $67.50, paper, $22.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Racial Forms, National Fictions COLLEEN LnS America's Asia: Racial...

... Fictions JENNIFER RUTH, Novel Projessions: lnteresfed Disinterest and the Making of the Professionat in the Victorian Novel (Columbus Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 192, cloth, $69.95, paper, $24.95, CD, $9.95. Grounded in the specific practices of three Victorian novels about professionalism...

...DANIEL NOVAK DAVID PAYNE, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization (New York: Palgrave 2005), pp. 224, cloth, $65.00, £45.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Fictions of Enchantment DAVID PAYNE...

...Rachel Ablow What exactly does it mean to believe in fiction? What can this form of belief achieve or do for us that other forms cannot? This essay argues that for Oscar Wilde, the experience of losing oneself in a work of fiction offers a privileged opportunity to “try on” a belief one...

... 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...

...Kate Flint Photographers tend to come off very badly in contemporary fiction—portrayed as emotionally warped, as voyeurs, or as exploitative, they are seen not as artists but as operating a piece of technology. Their photographs are understood in referential rather than imaginative terms...

...Rita Barnard If, as Benedict Anderson has argued, the realist novel has a particularly close relationship to the nation, what kind of narrative form would be best suited to transnational or even global fictions? This essay proposes a few answers to this question by looking first at what Roger Ebert...

...Daniel A. Novak “Photographic Fictions” argues that the discussion of fragmentation and totality, parts and wholes that photography provoked in the work of nineteenth-century writers and photographers is important for how we think of the novel form in the age of photography. Victorian writers...

...James Buzard The thesis of my 2005 book Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels is gestured at by the three words of this essay's main title: nineteenth-century Britain's imperial expansion is the ultimate context in which to make sense of the nineteenth...

... is the best way for individuals to participate in a community without becoming rigidly committed to oppressive everyday social roles. Mill's initial disparagement of fiction as “a series of states of mere outward circumstances” belies his eventual conviction that the mental representation of others...

...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...

... . 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...

...John Marx The conventional wisdom that contemporary fiction has little use for the nation cannot explain the plurality of recent novels that attend to states in crisis. To detail the effects of state collapse is at the very least to insist on the state's continued relevance to the form...

...Jane Elliott Focusing on Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake , this essay examines what I term “dramas of immediacy” in recent North American fiction. Postmodern novels of the 1980s and 1990s were defined in part by their interest in the way in which narrative shaped our experience, particularly...

...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...

...Raji Vallury My article studies the implications of Jacques Rancière's concepts of literary misunderstanding and political dissensus for our understanding of the politics of postcolonial fiction. The disjunctive junction that Rancière establishes between the politics of aesthetics...

... William . Neuromancer . New York : Ace , 1986 . Economic Fiction, 1945–2000 michael w. clune, American Literature and the Free Market, 1945–2000 (Cambridge: Cam- bridge UP, 2010), pp. 211, cloth, $93.00. Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Michael W. Clune...