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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 196–206.
Published: 01 August 2009
... argue that during the five years Woolf took to write the novel, she searched for and found an aesthetic form to enact her new critical ontology and that that aesthetic centrally informs the ethics of Three Guineas . Both works theorize possible states of freedom to be occupied and enacted in states...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 107–110.
Published: 01 May 2004
...MADHU DUBEY JENNY SHARPE, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Lives (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003), pp. 187. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Not Quite Freedom: Leveraging Agency in Slave Women's
Narratives
JENNY...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., it asserts that Isabel's pursuit of freedom is grounded in her 1850s childhood when the Underground Railroad was particularly active in Albany. It examines the Albany home within the historical context of the 1870s and 1880s, when, respectively, Isabel returns to Albany and The Portrait of a Lady was first...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 308–321.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., the neoliberal revolution takes place in the name of freedom but ends up destroying “freedom's grounding in sovereignty for states and subjects alike” (108). “[B]oth persons and states,” Brown writes, “are expected to comport themselves in ways that maximize their capital value in the present and enhance...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 290–296.
Published: 01 August 2009
... human right: the right to mobility. It starts by explaining how this right is articulated in the early modern period at the international geopolitical scale as the freedom of navigation. It then links the freedom of the seas to the empowered agency of Crusoe and fellow mariners across the history...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for “the Black Box,” the perfect elevator. The novel announces its participation in the tradition of African American literature by performing numerous standard tropes; it responds to the call of antebellum slave narratives by linking literacy and freedom and addresses topics such as double consciousness...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2014
... common-law jurisprudence of habeas corpus. To flesh out this history, the essay analyzes as an instance of dissensus the famous Somerset decision of 1772 on a writ of habeas corpus by Chief Justice of King's Bench William Murray, Lord Mansfield, upholding the freedom of an escaped slave who had been...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 240–262.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Aviva Briefel Abstract This article argues that Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop demonstrates the ways in which labor exploitation can occur in situations of apparent generosity, freedom, or even kindness. One of the most insidious aspects of Little Nell's victimization by labor...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... struggles for freedom that are always relevant for their present‐day Black readership, irrespective of the historical contexts in which the novels themselves are set. Finally, the essay notes that the 1988 trade paperback edition of Mumbo Jumbo substitutes different images for some of the ones that were...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 August 2015
... Sartre's unfinished tetralogy The Roads to Freedom (1945–49) to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (1962) and Peter Weiss's trilogy The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–81). Building on Alain Badiou's understanding of the militant subject's “fidelity” to the revolution, the article describes the dialectical...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 36–59.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of the relation between private and public spheres. Recent Israeli literature and film consequently invite us to rethink the stylistic preoccupation of contemporary theories of world literature by asking how these media use aesthetic figures to give form to the concepts of freedom, necessity, and knowledge...
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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 (2015) 48 (3): 446–464.
Published: 01 November 2015
... by focusing attention on the specificities of literary analysis as a particular mode of judgment whose precepts and decisions do not always coincide with political or even ethical reason. Through a reading of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, this essay argues that this heuristic does not attempt to reconcile...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Philip Gould OTTER SAMUEL , Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom ( New York : Oxford UP , 2010 ), pp. 408 , cloth, $29.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Reading the Grid
samuel otter...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2008
...LLOYD PRATT LAURA DOYLE, Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940 (Durham: Duke UP, 2008), pp. 578, cloth, $99.95, paperback, $27.95. CHRISTOPHER L. MILLER, The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke UP...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 495–498.
Published: 01 November 2015
... hugely influential legal theory on “the obvious truth that the citizen cannot orient his conduct by law if what is called law confronts him merely with a series of sporadic and patternless exercises of state power” ( Fuller 110 ). Like many postwar liberals, Fuller describes individual freedom...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 384–401.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to play a number of
different social roles. His performances, however, have seemed to take theatrical-
ity to its final extreme. In the words of Michael Rogin, "the apparent freedom of
the confidence man's detached self dissolves the self that is free":
Tlze distinction between stage...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 47–52.
Published: 01 May 2010
... narrative’s formal conventions
would have expected Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, My Bondage
and My Freedom (1855), to offer a detailed account of the clear and simple facts of
Douglass’s enslavement, escape, and life as a free man. Although the book’s title
encourages that expectation...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 157–165.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... Appropriate responses will be posted along with this introduction on the Novel website, novel.trinity.duke.edu , under “news.” JM: Although these essays show how freedom functions as a lure, they do not appear interested in reinscribing it as a goal. I understand these essays as not particularly...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of pleasure that we will now have freedom of speech and expression under this sub-clause and the word ‘sedition’ is also going to disappear” ( Sinha 171 ). In the years after independence, too, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru called the law “highly objectionable and obnoxious,” arguing that “it should have...
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