... event in the evolutionary history of this theme was the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and one text that translated this lesson of the Mutiny most powerfully for popular thinking was Mary Elizabeth Braddon's famous sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret (1861-62). The Doctrine of Survivals, the Great Mutiny...

...: "Negro- Head" Tobacco in and around Great Expectations ELAINE FREEDGOOD Dickens could not make up his mind to go to Australia, although a proposed reading tour promised to be lucrative. His correspondence chronicles the history of this long (in)decision...

... a transcendence of the quotidian and renders the minute and mundane de- tails the imperceptible medium of the real in Emma. I have in mind here the writings of Maurice Blanhot, Michel de Certeau, and H~MLefebvre. NOVEL I SPRING/SUMMER 2005 A Great Talker upon...

... of statistical analysis in Scenes of Clerical Life, Middlemarch , and Daniel Deronda. In the second half of this essay, I offer a rereading of Dickens's Great Expectations and argue that the International Statistical Congress of 1860, the Census of 1861, and the surrounding debates regarding the value...

...Jennifer L. Fleissner Jonathan Lethem, discussing Ian McEwan's work, argued in 2007 that “neurology” has replaced “psychoanalysis” as today's great “rival to the novel's authority.” This essay explores Lethem's proposition via attention to these discourses' differing notions of the symptom. While...

...Neil Ten Kortenaar A great project of the first two generations of African writers was to establish continuities with the precolonial and ongoing oral tradition. This essay, however, asks what African writers thought of the act of writing itself. A key scene in Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God...

...Roberto Schwarz The international recognition of Machado de Assis began in the 1950s and proceeded with no reference to Brazil. In those same years a part of Brazilian criticism took the opposite direction: Machado's greatness was to be explained by his overcoming deadlocks that were central...

...” and unfixed—wandering through both space and time. Examining the consequences of such wandering can tell us a great deal about the relationship of narrative to temporality and the relationship of temporality to theories of moral education. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Addison , Joseph...

..., and even diminish the achievements of black women writers and their contributions to American letters. Sources from the New York Times to Henry Louis Gates Jr. labeled Morrison's win a “great day” for black women writers, for black Americans, and for African American literature; but few if any commentaries...

...Anna Kornbluh As the paradigmatic trend in literary study at present, “postcritique” implies that a great epoch of critique has come to a close. Taking the charge to look back over fifty years of Marxist theory of the novel, this polemic argues that critique cannot come to a close because it has...

... differences is central to the moral economy of mid-nineteenth-century realism. To live inside a liberal dispensation that takes its realist fictions seriously means recognizing the work that characters like Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations (and persons like ourselves) put into stories about our own...

...Matthew Hart Abstract This essay considers a late novel sequence by the British speculative fiction writer J. G. Ballard (1930–2009). Although Ballard is often celebrated as a great iconoclast, there is arguably no postwar novelist with a more recognizable style. The essay analyzes Cocaine Nights...

... subroutines as self-interested beings allows Proust to apply the principles of biological selection to these psychological entities, imagining the mind as an ecosystem in which great personal upheavals—for instance, Marcel's loss of Albertine—figure as extinction events that wipe out large populations...

...), I suggest that the creative writing program not only was instrumental in shaping postwar American letters but also continues to be of great relevance for contemporary global South writing. The article argues that developing-world MFA novelists have redeployed a Cold War programmatic imperative...

... unobtrusively immanent to realist novels of empire such as Mansfield Park and Great Expectations , surfaces to the diegetic level and becomes available for critical scrutiny in high modernist novels such as Heart of Darkness or Absalom, Absalom! Drawing from writings by Max Weber (on guarantees of calculability...

...Richard H. Brodhead Buell Lawrence , The Dream of the Great American Novel ( Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2014 ) , pp. xii + 567, cloth $39.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 In 2006, colleagues in American literary studies awarded Lawrence Buell the Jay Hubbell...

.... 2 While Kim himself functions to dramatize the acquisition of imperial knowledge, a lack of knowledge of the topography and human geography of Tibet and Afghanistan—and occasional wild speculation about the regions—was and continues to be a more general problem for Great Game commentators...

... "receptant" but secretive; her imaginative act is a secret, just as her proposed plan of economy involves secrets and secre- tions (or secretive secreting). For both Ruskin and Eliot, the hoarder is a grotesque creature, whose great economic mistake-the insistence on the unalloyed benefit...

...MEG ALBRINCK KAREN L. LEVENBACK, Virginia Woolf and the Great War (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999), pp. 208, $34.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Woolf's War Stories KAREN L. LEVENBACK, Virginia Woolfund the Great War (Syracuse: Syracuse...

... of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England .Ed. Brewer John, McKendrick Neil, and H. Plumb John. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982 . 265 –86. Pomeranz , Kenneth . The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy . Princeton: Princeton UP...