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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 381–399.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of Small Things' feminist legal critique is not only perceptive and timely, but it also offers a crucial insight into the political stakes of the novel's aesthetic form. I use political and legal theory to identify India's property law and juridical economy as “possessive,” or exclusionary, and to explain...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 49–64.
Published: 01 May 2016
... yearned. According to the Second Treatise of Government , an individual earns the right to enclose property by improving uncultivated “waste” of the sort Locke imagined the American wilderness to be, and this property in turn becomes the basis of the commonwealth formed for its protection ( Two...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 497–504.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to The Romantic-Era Novel . Ed. Gilroy Amanda Verhoeven Wil . Spec. issue of Novel 34 . 2 ( 2001 ): 147 – 62 . Trumpener Katie . Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1997 . Properties of Irish Fiction...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 93–118.
Published: 01 May 1999
... argument through readings of
Charles Dickens and George Eliot, Nunokawa's terms usefully illuminate
Trollope's novel as well. Lucy will be for her husband a form of inalienable
property, always in the "zone of possession," which she preserves and
represents. Lizzie, by contrast, like her...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
... pockets material culture forms of property Since its eighteenth-century English inception, the novel has functioned as a textual space for portraying internal experience in the context of everyday life. Throughout eighteenth-century England, commentators identified the new genre as an exchange...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 216–231.
Published: 01 August 2001
... too
l7 Even as Mrs. Rayland and her two sisters form, at the novel's start, a triumvirate of female
property owners, so too Mrs. Rayland, Mrs. Lennard, and Monimia represent Fate-figures, the
Hall their cave of destiny. Orlando, the romance hero, must encounter and propitiate all...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 May 2004
...MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE THADIOUS M. DAVIS, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (Durham: Duke UP, 2003), pp. 339, $79.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Strategies of Containment: Faulkner's Narratives of Race...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 May 2011
... ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2008 ), pp. 288 , cloth, $37.50 . Reviews
Thing, Feeling, Form
john plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008),
pp. 288, cloth, $37.50.
peter melville...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 226–243.
Published: 01 August 2024
... rather than a right and that it should only be granted to citizens who are capable of wielding it responsibly. Responding to recent legislation that extended privacy rights to women (in the Married Women's Property Act of 1870) and working‐class men (in the Ballot Act of 1872), Trollope warns readers...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 135–157.
Published: 01 August 2004
... can only beget more longing. This system has
a palliative function for anxieties surrounding changes in property laws; it sug-
gests that even if women are legally allowed to own material goods, the form of
their desire prohibits them from ever doing so. While emerging from a specific...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 383–402.
Published: 01 November 2014
...=uva.x001496660;view=1up;seq=7 > . Johns Adrian . Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2009 . Kalberg Stephen . “Max Weber's Types of Rationality: Cornerstones for the Analysis of Rationalization Processes in History.” American...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 248–269.
Published: 01 August 2021
... . “ The ‘New’ Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession .” Socialist Register 40 ( 2004 ): 64 – 87 . Hensley Nathan K. , and Steer Philip . “ Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal .” Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire . Ed. Hensley Nathan...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 216–220.
Published: 01 August 2004
...RUTH MACK PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS, Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003), pp. 256, $36.00. WOLFRAM SCHMIDGEN, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002), pp. 274, $65.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 23–43.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... Elliot's exclusive possession, as his supervision of the plot becomes a form of intellectual property that he exercises on behalf of his socioeconomic advancement. In an article on gendered subjectivity and structures of the Gothic, Nancy Armstrong points out a central contradiction between property's dual...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 24–42.
Published: 01 May 2014
... volatile form. When liberal societies granted each citizen an exclusive
right over his person, property, and dependents, they transferred the authority
for regulating a population from the apparatus of monarchy to technologies of
discipline that turned each citizen into his personal policeman. Just how...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to address the following questions: How has the novel contributed to the narrative genres and forms that we use to tell the story of the Anthropocene, and how—in turn—does the story of the Anthropocene ask us to reconsider these narrative genres and forms as reconceptualizing the human environment? How do...
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2005
...DANIEL HACK CLARE PETTITT, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004), pp. 356, cloth, £58.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Authors and Inventors
CLARE rm,Patent Inventions: lntellectual Property...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 380–384.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of a property-form derived from the self-evident principle of ownership in one's own self, the novel suggests that selfhood is, on the contrary, an aftereffect produced by the material we own and the habits we enact. Key to her reading, then, is the claim that “Bird converts the farm from a hereditary...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 279–282.
Published: 01 August 2003
..., tells us that
the ledger is a written mode of narrating past events, and, like any other fonn of
narrative it is defined by certain generic characteristics. Within the linked cluster of
figural practices that define the ledger as a form of narrative, the central idea...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 271–293.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of capitalist property ownership, present male suffering as authentic and histrionic, indicative of both power and powerlessness, and as an attempt to manage perceived threats to the self. By depicting male psychic pain in this way, Brontë and Eliot attempt to locate the source for the violence men inflict...
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