...Priyanka Anne Jacob [email protected] Rebecca R. Falkoff , Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell UP , 2021 ), pp. 264 , paper, $19.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 The artist Song Dong's installation Waste Not situates the stripped...

... 2005 reflecting, even allegorizing, Eliot's worries about her own intellectual property. In the fullest of these readings, Pettitt links Eliot's treatment of Marner's hoarding of gold to the concerns about the harmfulness of intellectual hoarding voiced in the patent debate and Eliot's own...

... the natural locus of the nineteenth-century novel’s exploration of capitalism’s loathing of its own propensity to amass wealth” (xii). She obstructs the capitalist ideal of financial circulation by hoarding material things, while her pull toward endogamy (choos- ing a husband whose social standing...

... of the contents. -John Ruskin, Works 17: 169 In Munera Pulveris, his most sustained study of "pure" economics, Ruskin takes a radical position in his denial of the universally beneficial results of saving. In his schema, the hoarding capitalist is figured...

... unfold in specific reference to china collecting, arranging, hoarding, and breaking, as Zuroski brilliantly shows in chapter 2. The self who uses disciplined taste to choose and arrange Chinese objects in the first half of the century produces a carefully curated domestic interior that, as Zuroski argues...

... this “unconventional” (60) pairing to draw on the dialectic of order and disorder in Benjamin's essays on the collector. There are different ways this tension can play out, leading to “a whole host of compulsive or pathologically situated modern behaviors and tendencies, including hoarding” (7). Alongside her analysis...

... of the indig- nation he had hoarded up, during his residence with Mr. Pecksniff, were retarded, but not beyond a few hours” (679). Embodied in the old man—“hidden in his own breast”—the success of Old Martin’s project requires the discipline to hold the end at bay. But when is the right time for Old...

... 34 . 4 ( 1991 ): 873 – 92 . Jackson-Houlston C. M. Ballads, Songs, and Snatches: The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British Nineteenth-Century Realist Prose . Aldershot : Ashgate , 1999 . Jacob Priyanka A. “The Art of the Hoard: Secrets, Keepsakes...

... memorabilia. His long separation from her, followed by the eight years of enforced chastity despite daily proximity while she is married to another man, explains the frustration and melancholy that starts him on his career of collecting and hoarding mementos of her even when she is alive. In time, Kemal comes...

... seemingly embraces isolation and provincialism. 8 However, as Nancy Armstrong writes: “We should recall that Wuthering Heights was written against the background of swelling industrial centers and Chartist uprisings that had reached alarming proportions by the forties, as had the hoards [ sic...

... social relations. Silas's hoarding, therefore, does not derive primar- ily from a desire to monopolize economic power, as the Raveloe community interprets his refusal to either spend money or interact with the townspeople; instead, Silas develops an affective attachment to his own labor...

... history of ideas, we err on the side of idealism, oblivious to the shaping of intellectual life by materiality. If, on the other hand, we become obsessive about objects, hoarding and treasuring relics of the past, we risk becoming thoughtless antiquarians (or worse, fetishists), preoccupied...

... of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser- merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps and among the joyous, heartless, ever- juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God omnipresent coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal...

... that sustain a food source like salmon or rice so that it remains plentiful over time, protecting reserves of food against sudden shocks like droughts or storms and preventing members from hoarding or depleting the stock. From this perspective, the Indigenous practices that have been criminalized or erased...

... “all the hoardings round the new Government offices” (187). The narrative's uneasiness focuses on the troubling prospect of what the ballot box might produce: not a politics that protects and upholds the rights of the individual liberal subject, but one instead ruled by the unpredictable interests...

...” and which promises to continue without him into the unnarrated future of the Occidental Republic (423). Instead, Nostromo's theft of the silver initiates the romance plot of the final third of the novel, in which his visits to the Great Isabel Island to retrieve ingots of silver from his hoard dovetail...

.... On the brink of violence, they find themselves stranded on the island of Tahiti, where they encounter a ruthless and evangelical Christian Englishman, Attwater, who has hoarded a fortune in pearls and subjected most of the native population to his authority. In Osbourne’s version, the characters were...

... on the pavement, philosophy and ethics from the hoardings and dead walls. . . . The line “Somebody's Luggage” fell like a warning knell from an anonymous tocsin on the public ear. Somebody's luggage might be our own luggage. We might be somebody. ( Smith 122–23 ) Like Trilby , A Tale of Two Cities...

... fiancée and then the savings he has hoarded over many years; but when workers drain the pits, their discovery of Silas's fortune enables him to keep his adopted daughter and reclaim the familial life he always wanted. The return of Silas's riches years after their loss thus enables a redemptive...

... of sexual delusion, they also constitute the family-values ethos of Barnes’s Rabelaisian fiction and pose a different (and more sympathetic) assessment of those “hooded hoards” and neurasthenic women that populate modernist texts. Legal Fictions In her book...