...). 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...

... . The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . 1789. 1813 ed. London: Ray Society, 1993 . Natural History and the Novel: Dilatoriness and Length and the Nineteenth-Century Novel of Everyday Life Amy M. King Midway through Jane Austen’s Emma, the title character...

...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...

... 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...

... : Verso , 1980 . 40 – 42 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press “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...

... 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...

...-garde and modernist art as theorized by Theodor W. Adorno , and that in the history of the novel, in works like Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Ulysses , and Finnegans Wake , Mann's The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus , Musil's The Man Without Qualities , and Broch's...

... between the novel and history in a peculiarly sharp form, a point emphasized by Perry Anderson during a 1983 conference commemorating the centenary of Marx's death when he described Powell's avowedly anti-Marxist series A Dance to the Music of Time as “the most important piece of postwar fiction...

... citizens—who, by the early 1960s, remain chastened yet hopeful survivors of the Great Patriotic War and Stalinism— Red Plenty evokes a boundlessly energetic and determined social order in hot pursuit of a communist utopia just on history's horizon. Naturally, the characters of the novel do not know what...

...Mary Helen McMurran Nearly a quarter century after Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities , the novel seems to be less a national subject than a flexible citizen. But before Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel , most novel histories took the mobility of prose fictions for granted; writers had long...

...Scott Black This essay argues that modern, realist ways of reading fail to satisfy fully their own claims about the novel as a genre self-consciously located in history. Rather, novels cycle through the kinds of narrative named by Ian Watt and Northrop Frye and show how each is necessary...

...Kate Marshall This essay makes the case for a reconsideration of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy within the history of the modernist novel and its medial legacies by attending to the complex relationship enacted throughout the text between material forms and structures of interiority...

... of espionage in Britain as well as in British spy fiction. Following on from this genealogy of genre, it interrogates the novel's protagonist's claim that “[t]he world has been remade by William Le Queux” in the context of the dual histories of espionage in Britain and the spy in British fiction, while...

... and that provides the material basis for those instances of disorder that draw our attention by their intensity. In other words, Death Comes for the Archbishop is a novel of the history of what Fernand Braudel calls “the structures of everyday life.” But, in a contradictory fashion, Cather's novel also suggests...

... Agamben's postulate concerning the evacuation of legality from the camp as state of exception through the magistrate's attempts to restore justice. The essay concludes that in Coetzee's later novel, Foe —which directly addresses the entwined histories of the English novel and the Atlantic slave trade...

... simultaneity of their separate but networked activity. Juxtaposing the politics of the French Revolution with the form of the public transport, this historical novel relates the history of the French Revolution as about a transition in formal relations. A Tale of Two Cities thereby lays bare the genre...