...Jonathan Arac Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel locates the novel at a particular juncture within the history of Western spirit but not in relation to any specific social, political, or economic history. Mikhail Bakhtin, influenced by Lukács and also by Friedrich Schlegel's theorization...

... Arendt Matters . New Haven: Yale UP, 2006 . States of Emergency, States of Freedom: Woolf, History, and the Novel Stephen M. Barber I must cling to my “freedom”—that mysterious hand that was reached out to me about 4 years ago...

...). What the questions have in common is that they all point to processes that loom large in the history of the novel but not in its theory. Here I reflect on this discrepancy and suggest a few possible alternatives. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher...

... offering a more accurate social history of the novel. The essay traces histories of the novel throughout the nineteenth century, from the moment of the “institution of the novel” at its beginning to the definition of the genre as the cultural expression of a rising “middle class” of puritan merchants...

... violations of the copyright law used to protect them. Law, Parody, and the Politics of African American Literary History Gene Andrew Jarrett In early 2001, the Stephens Mitchell Trust (hereafter “the trust”) learned that Hough- ton Mifflin was planning to publish a parody...

... life, with its affinity for protracted descriptive pauses, more distorting still. Natural history influenced these descriptive practices; this essay argues that nineteenth-century novelistic description borrowed both a structure and an ethical justification from the observational practices of natural...

... , Abdullah . Hikayat Abdullah . Trans. A. H. Hill. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford UP, 1970 . Amin , Samir . Unequal Development . New York: Monthly Review, 1976 . Foucault , Michel . “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” The Foucault Reader . Ed. Rabinow Paul. London: Penguin. 1984 . 76 -97...

... dialogic, suggesting yet another stage in the management of same-sex intimacies and their representations. In arguing for sapphic form as an underpinning of the novel's domestic subject, I hope to suggest that form does function as novelistic content and that the history of sexuality—in the novel...

...Marianne DeKoven The term history gathers to itself, and disperses, as troubled and complex a nexus of theory, ideology and practice as any term in our critical vocabulary. Yet I argue here that this term is as inevitable and necessary as it is problematic, especially in discussions of the novel...

...ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Rev. ed. New York: Verso, 1991 . Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History...

...RAJI VALLURY Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Works Cited Ahmad , Aijaz . “Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory.” Social Text 17 ( 1987 ): 3 –25. Abun-Nasr , Jamil M. A History of the Maghrib . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1971 . Andrade...

...Christopher Douglas Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is a kind of companion volume to Toni Morrison's Beloved, recollecting through tropes of memory the history of American slavery: as with Morrison's novel, these histories are to be productive of contemporary identities. Gilead in particular helps...

... in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays . London : Verso , 1980 . 40 – 42 . “This Will Kill That”: A Provocation on the Novel in Media History JONATHAN ARAC Thinking of the novel as an imaginative organ of, first, Western culture and now a world literature, I turn...

... experimentation with referentiality toward her own critique of how events get represented, arguing that The Book of Salt plays with Steinian aesthetics in order to offer a critique of the structures of power that grant the racialized subject visibility. Paul Robeson and Ho Chi Minh become subjects of history...

.... Gillespie and Moran. 95 –121. Dunne , Tom . “Haunted by History: Irish Romantic Writing, 1800–1850.” Ed. Roy Porter and Mikulás Teich. Romanticism in a National Context . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988 . 68 –91. Eagleton , Terry . Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish...

... with the philosophy of history. Lukács's critical project has been sustained in the United States by Fredric Jameson, whose return to the thesis of The Historical Novel in the closing essay of The Antinomies of Realism (2013) is at odds with his revisitation of the Romantic genealogy of the pre-Marxist Theory...

..., socialist bildungsromane sought to provide the traditional form of the bildungsroman with a genuinely internationalist horizon. The genre of the socialist bildungsroman encodes the checkered history of socialism, in particular the problematic of a revolutionary temporality as well as the fraught...

... of women who participated in the war of independence), as nationalist narratives authored by men have rigidified the forms in which resistance against the French can be told. Thus Djebar draws attention to the porous boundaries between private, multilingual stories and national history...

...Stefano Ercolino Abstract A narrative impulse and a scenic impulse: as Fredric Jameson persuasively argues in The Antinomies of Realism , the history of literary realism has been shaped by the dialectic between these two competing drives, each identified by a specific temporality. Yet realism's...