..., the interruption of “homogeneous, empty time,” the attempt to introduce a poetics of history, and the interrogation of secular models of explanation. Since these questions also intrude upon the world of fiction, we might ask: to what extent does the novel now depend upon the critique of historicism? © 2009...

...DEANNA KREISEL JASON B. JONES, Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 160, cloth, $59.95, paper, $22.95, CD, $9.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Historicizing Historicism JASON B. JONES, hst...

...PHILIP GOULD ARTHUR RISS, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), pp. 246, cloth, $80.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Historicizing Personhood ARTHUR ~SS,Race, Slavery, and Liberalism...

... to the other—indeed, how each can turn into the other. In recycling anachronistic forms like romance, novels do not simply supersede them but rather offer tools of a literacy adequate to a history much longer and more active than historicism tends to allow. The puzzles of reading staged by the scene of Master...

...Lisa O'Connell My paper re-historicizes the eighteenth-century marriage plot by shifting attention away from both the history of literary genres and the modes of social history that have generally informed accounts of the rise of the novel. Drawing instead on recent historiography of the period's...

... recognized and detailed the history of romance and then novel translations and adaptations. This essay takes stock of this return to translative novel history and calls for a more rigorously historicized use of the term transnational . When the novel became a modern, national literary phenomenon by the end...

... understanding of James's ethics of form and also provide contemporary criticism with conscientious alternatives to historicism. Works Cited Baucom , Ian . Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History . Durham: Duke UP, 2005 . Blackmur , R. P...

... in this way borrows from Jacques Rancière's understanding of the correlation between aesthetic and political regimes, and this article elaborates and historicizes Rancière's theory at the turnover between utilitarian and liberal ideologies. In particular, it argues that Rancière's understanding of politics...

... tool for analyzing postcolonial literatures. Doing so, however, requires us to jettison Lukács's progressive historicism in favor of a model of literary history shaped by uneven temporalities and a fundamental disjunction between the historical perspectives of settler and nonsettler communities—thus...

...Torleif Persson Abstract This article begins by noting that recent debates about the relevance of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to contemporary American culture enact an opposition between historicism (the idea that the novel is a Jim Crow artifact) and universalism (the idea that it transcends...

... literary theory. Now is an apt moment to revisit this genealogy. As writers and theorists of autofiction and the contemporary novel renew the dream of transcending aesthetic representation, it is crucial to historicize and interrogate our tendency to privilege the novel's capacity for dialogue...

... the contemporary an architecture and makes it available to history. In his conclusion, Martin launches a full-throated defense of historicism for the determinations it provides in an otherwise indeterminate present. Martin's study of genre fiction as “historicism by other means” ultimately rests its case...

... argue here that this term is as inevitable and necessary as it is problematic, especially in discussions of the novel. Various theorists define or redefine the cluster of terms surrounding and depen- dent on history (historical, historian, historiography, historiographic, historicism...

... understanding inevitably involves prejudice,” historicism presents a fundamental hermeneutic blindness: “historicism, despite its critique of rationalism and of natural law philosophy, is based on the modern Enlightenment and unwittingly shares its prejudices. And there is one prejudice...

... unclear whether postmodernism intensified itself to the point where it made a qualitative leap into realism or whether what we formerly called postmodernism was really realism all along. Jed Esty gives us a historicizing view. His intriguing contribution to this collection of articles proposes...

... and different in kind from the NOVEL ) FALL 2003/SPRING 2004 historicization of "internalized principles" with which the book's argument began, and it depends more on Freud than on Woodforde. Her account of the "heroism with which [Woodforde] suppresses .. . emotions" offers...

... Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles climate change form historicism The single illustration in Darwin's On the Origin of Species is a treelike fan of dotted branches scored by fourteen horizontal lines. The fan represents the divergence of species over time, and each of the lines...

... intently Victorian thinkers struggled to define what about culture traveled, whether it could be changed, what was material and what immaterial about it—all concerns that continue to haunt us now. Both also suggest that historicism itself may retain the structure of fetishism: to imply...

... imperative—“Always historicize!”—sounds self-contradictory. Always does not belong in the company of historicizing. To historicize utopia would seem to entail insisting that there have been many kinds of indignation, many incompatible notions of injustice. Mao and Jameson both know this, of course...

... . Spectator . Vol. 1 . No. 94 . Ed. F. Bond Donald. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965 . 398 –402. Chandler , James K. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998 . Defoe , Daniel . Moll Flanders . Ed. H. Kelly Edward...