... thousand years of recorded human history—but this is only the initial stop in Wells 's first major work of fiction, The Time Machine . Wells explained that this immense narrative scope was necessary to his purpose of providing “a glimpse of the future that ran counter to the placid assumption...

... in Emergent India .” Popular Communication 11 . 1 ( 2013 ): 58 – 75 . Cohen Shana . Searching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Morocco . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Dalley Hamish . “ Postcolonialism and the Historical Novel: Epistemologies of Contemporary...

... the “future anterior” of the page, it argues for the view of the book that opens up once a technology is no longer in use as a primary medium. By this logic, if novels like Remainder and The Accidental perform the space of new media, it is not because they describe or actively cede a role to electronic text...

.... Butler , Octavia . Parable of the Sower . New York: Warner, 1995 . Davis , Mike . City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles . New York: Vintage, 1990 . Davis , Mike . Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster . New York: Vintage, 1998 . Dubey...

...Nancy Armstrong Work Cited Nancy Jean-Luc . The Inoperative Community . Trans. Connor Peter Garbus Lisa . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1991 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press The Future in and of the Novel NANCY ARMSTRONG...

... . No Future? JOHN PLOTZ Asked to address the question “Is there a life after death?” Henry James proposed to answer a harder question first: what makes us so sure that there is even life before death? “Futures of the novel” is a tough enough topic in its own right, but to decide if the novel has...

... Speculations: America as England's Future in The WayWe Live Now ANNETTE VAN In examining "the way we live now," Trollope ask$ how can we know what any- thing or anyone is worth? In a nation increasingly subject...

...CAROLINE MCCRACKEN-FLESHER Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 CAIRNS CRAIG, The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), pp. 256, $26.00. Back to the Scottish Future? CAIRNS CRAIG, The Modern...

... “a ‘realist’ aesthetic as a matter now of space rather than time” ( Lesjak 35 ). By contrast, our authors are intensely concerned with how literature is renewing our sense of temporal motion, or as Coundouriotis puts it, is providing an “opening to the future” in spite of catastrophe. Goodlad's turn...

...Ian Baucom © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Futures of the Novel IAN BAUCOM The collection of brief essays gathered here emerged from the April 2010 forum “Futures of the Novel,” jointly organized by Duke University’s Franklin Humani- ties...

... democracy,” we must stop seesawing between the extremes of passivity and defiance, between fatalism and disruptive bids for “freedom” (802). He believes that if a ruptural strategy for transcending capitalism is not plausible, and if radical economic democracy is to be a future beyond capitalism...

... of artists and commentators—Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Jameson, Lauren Berlant, Mark Fisher, Peter Thiel, Will Farrell, and others—who seem to concur that the present moment is characterized by “a loss of faith in futurity” (4), an inability to imagine change that has left us imprisoned in what feels like...

...Annette Van This essay speculates about the future of the novel and the novel's futurism, focusing on the ethics of this form given its historical links to the emergence of the Enlightenment subject under capitalism and the nation-state. Do we still need or desire the novel? Is the novel still...

...—Joyce's Ulysses , Pound's Cantos , Freud's Schreber case—at a moment when biological life was being reimagined through the optic of eugenic science and comparative anatomy. The essay extends Lee Edelman's critique of reproductive futurity in No Future to suggest that dystopic biological futures were being...

... and participants' desire to experience time as pleasurably oriented to future gratification. Ulysses 's bad jokes are symptoms of the striated and retrogressive experience of a colonized community, which is politically oriented to the past. Humor in Ulysses takes place in a nonsynchronous time (to adopt Ernst...

... in the status of the future between a novel and lived experience and in the process of actively making present the events of a novel referred to in retrospect. The essay offers a hermeneutic circle between presentification and depresentification as an account of the relationship between the time of a novel...

..., vis‐à‐vis her pregnancy, and the endless possibilities her future self and her future child can take. By using a narrative form—autofiction—that embodies the relational, fluid self of a queer, diasporic, Black subject, Wenzel's novel best captures Black Lives Matter's desire to center those folx who...

...Jennifer Gutman Abstract Emerging during a Cold War era of nuclear uncertainty, refined in decades of neoliberal turbulence, and used today for modeling climate futures, scenario thinking has now entered the domain of the Anthropocene novel. This article argues for the adoption of scenarios...

... this history, showing how ecologists and engineers generated their own speculative fictions of possible dystopian futures—environmental collapse, depletion of resources, and overpopulation—through models of dynamic systems. In turn, works of speculative fiction also began to borrow these models...

... the disconnect between the United States' Lockean ideals and its very un-Lockean patterns of property ownership—a disconnect that became acute within Jacksonian democracy. In doing so, Sheppard Lee reframes a wider debate among early American writers about the future of the novel in the United States. The most...