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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 2016
... “obliterate” social cohesion or at least make its incoherence legible? This essay turns to Charles Dickens's Bleak House to think about the negative aspect of the novel's involvement in the horizon of legibility of social relations. It focuses on the novel's representation of mud—both as the abject material...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... Bové , Paul . “Giving Thought to America: Intellect and The Education of Henry Adams.” Critical Inquiry 23 ( 1996 ): 80 -108. Dimock , Wai Chee . “Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.” PMLA 100 ( 1985 ): 783 -92. Gale , Richard M . The Philosophy of William...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 47–66.
Published: 01 May 2011
...David Ben-Merre Charles Dickens's Bleak House depicts the changing epistemologies of the nineteenth century, celebrating the emergent figure of the detective and a verifiable inductive method as the dominant mode of knowledge production. At the climax of the novel, however, this epistemology...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 402–423.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Tyson Stolte This article reads Dickens's fascination with rotting bodily matter in Bleak House as a response to mid-Victorian psychological debates about the nature of mind and the possibility of immortality. Critics have tended to treat the novel's fixation on such matter as primarily a product...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 263–282.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of late capitalism, The Professor's House explores the possibilities of eroding capitalism from within by leveraging the concrete alternatives that already exist within and adjacent to it. Neither capitalist breakdown nor proletariat revolution appear on the horizon of the world Cather's protagonists...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 305–323.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Michael McGurk Abstract How can an economic model designed to eliminate waste produce nothing but? The answer, according to Samuel Beckett's Watt , can be found in the system of economic relations presupposed by the Anglo-Irish Big House novels that emerged after the 1800 Acts of Union...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Laura Strout Abstract What insights into literary realism can be found by dwelling in the empty rooms and abandoned spaces of Bleak House , a novel more often read for its representation of overcrowded environments? Traveling between and imaginatively inhabiting empty houses of Charles Dickens's...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2013
... for ecocriticism, which has often privileged immersive experience and a relatively simplistic view of the referentiality of language, particularly realism, known as “ecomimesis.” Reading Charles Dickens's Bleak House alongside the artificial climates contained in Victorian glasshouses, this article argues...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 475–478.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Srdjan Smajić MATZ AARON , Satire in an Age of Realism ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 ), pp. 218 , cloth, $89.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Bleaker House, Harder Times
AARON MATZ, Satire in an Age of Realism (Cambridge...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 319–322.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Joseph Litvak KURNICK DAVID , Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2012 ), pp. 280 , paper, $32.50 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press A House Is Not a Home
DAVID KURNICK, Empty Houses...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 216–231.
Published: 01 August 2001
...JACQUELINE M. LABBE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Works Cited Barbauld , Anna Letitia . “Introduction to The Old Manor House.” The British Novelists, with an Essay and Prefaces Biographical and Critical . Vols. 36–37 . London: Rivington, 1810 . i –vii. Bartolomeo...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 423–430.
Published: 01 November 2009
... the surprisingly extensive antebellum engagement with Bleak House on the part of African Americans and abolitionists, I show how such a combination of methods enables us to tease out the determinants, mechanics, and implications of readerly identification and appropriation across racial and national lines. African...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 November 2009
... lie latent in the length itself of the triple-decker novel? A reading of Bleak House suggests that its expansive form specifically allowed Dickens to represent multiple social, economic, and institutional networks. Linking the many characters in Bleak House is a dense overlapping of networked...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 290–294.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Laura Strout Barbara Leckie , Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain ( Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2018 ), pp. 312 , cloth, $79.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 “Let us look into the house.” Again...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 175–177.
Published: 01 August 2007
...STACEY MARGOLIS Milette Shamir, Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006), pp. 282, $55.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 The Secret Lives of Houses
Milette Shamir, inexpressible...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Caroline Wilkinson Abstract This article radically reframes Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady in relation to the Underground Railroad, the transatlantic slave trade, US slavery, and racial housing segregation. Focusing on the house in Albany, New York, where Isabel Archer stays in the 1850s...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 227–250.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Emily Steinlight This article demonstrates both the formal logic and the political stakes of Dickens's refusal to solve the problem his narratives create: the condition of a vast multitude that the impersonal narrator of Bleak House only half-ironically terms “supernumeraries.” Applied...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., they achieve fulfillment not in individualist plots but in group activities and brimful houses. The most influential Victorian family chronicler was Charlotte Mary Yonge. Yonge's episodic form was taken up by Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney. These writers’ chronicles...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
... House (1927) turns away from the possibilities explored by Lawrence, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, seeking instead moments of aesthetic translucence, the overlay of one image, or one sound, on top of another. Such moments of overlay (or overtone) encapsulate the problem...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
Published: 01 November 2017
... questions about what we do as literary scholars who read novels: Does the failure of novels to observe the categories of the literary discipline mean that they are not in fact literature? Or do we have to rethink both the novel and the discipline that has had trouble housing it—especially in recent years...
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