...Lloyd Pratt This essay argues that in his autobiographies, journalism, and speeches, Frederick Douglass carved out a new version of humanism that broke with both the liberalism individualism of Jacksonian America and the anachronistic civic republicanism espoused by white abolitionists. In addition...

...Sarah Winter This essay locates the subject of human rights in the narrative forms of J. M. Coetzee's novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe through an interpretation drawing on Jacques Rancière's theory of dissensus and tracing the novel's historical relations to the equitable and remedial...

...: Oxford UP, 1973 . "Get Out Empire Migration and Human Traffic in Lord Jim SCOTT A. COHEN Trafic is not only a technique; it is a form of consciousness and a form of social relations. Raymond Williams...

...Teresa Heffernan Jennifer Rhee , The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor ( Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2018 ), pp. 240 , cloth, $108.00 , paper, $27.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Debates about whether robots will take over jobs...

...Eleni Coundouriotis Anker Elizabeth , Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2012 ) , pp. 272, cloth, $45.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 One of the epigraphs to Elizabeth Anker's provocative study signals...

... of “emergent” reconfigurations, “rewirings” of art—including but not only the art of the novel—as well as of the aspect of experience that some of us call spiritual, where the interrelation of these two human concerns—art and religion—are, for Taylor, the “real” of his title. Rewiring 's introductory...

.... "Unhuman Humanity": Bodies of the Urban Poor and the Collapse of Realist Legibility JOSEPH ENTIN 1. Realism, Legibility, and the Turn-of-the-Century City Recently, several scholars of late nineteenth-century urban fiction...

...Saikat Majumdar JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (New York: Fordham UP, 2007), pp. 435, paper, $28.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Incorporated into Humanity joseph r. slaughter, Human Rights, Inc...

...Ivan Kreilkamp Henry James famously remarked of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd that “[e]verything human in the book strikes us as factitious and insubstantial; the only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs.” This comment is generally taken as a simple putdown, but it can also...

...Christine Mahady This essay examines the ways in which depictions of animal and human corporeality in Jack London's fiction support an ethics concerned with cultivating a greater attunement to one's surroundings, including other bodies. In contrast to previous readings that understand London's...

...Benjamin Morgan Abstract Concepts of scale have become urgent and contested in two thriving but seemingly unrelated fields. Humanities scholarship on anthropogenic climate change often argues that our historical present is defined by a conflict between human and geological timescales. At the same...

... at the same time. The result is a vision of urban communities in which varieties of humans and nonhumans make their presence felt and their voices heard—a more-than-human democracy that turns the idea of the Anthropocene away from its uniquely human focus. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Kristin Rose Abstract Set in an era of increasing global extraction, George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) explores the coproductive relationship between humanity and nature in Victorian fiction. Victorian texts frequently depicted mines and quarries as dystopic sites of environmental...

...Kirby Archer Abstract This article considers the novel's possibilities for depicting and responding to the climate crisis by analyzing Richard Powers's efforts to write a biocentric perspective in The Overstory (2018). In biocentric narratives, humans, typically the focal point of the novel...

... in time and space that is “outside the bounds of humanity.” At a time when ideas of black kinlessness still had potency in US law and society, Du Bois's strange representation of blackness as a fourth dimension in space is counterintuitive. Why forgo the conventional novelistic categories of family...

... of language? My argument is that the novels of this period chart a shift in the relationship between the two primal scenes outlined above, in which one eventually becomes the face of humanity while the other becomes the dead hand of inhumanity. In the end it is less the uncanny and easily allegorizable...

...Jane Elliott Abstract This essay examines the relationship between dominant trends in contemporary popular aesthetics and the microeconomic imagination of human behavior, which centers on individual allocation of finite resources to self-determined ends. I argue that this way of modeling human...

...—as a crucial marker of human character, Burney insists on filling her novels with a succession of unexpected events and a multitude of characters surprised by their own actions. By refusing to treat accident as a mistake to be improved upon—in the realm of either characterological conduct or authorial craft...

... in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) stands in refutation of Defoe's iconic portrayal of human isolation. Instead, I argue for affinities between Hume's secular skepticism and Crusoe's religious faith and suggest that both Defoe and Hume channel the same spiritual allegory of the pilgrim as shipwrecked...