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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 374–397.
Published: 01 November 2003
...: 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...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 47–52.
Published: 01 May 2010
...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...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2014
...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...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to be human. Rhee's book is essential reading for anyone negotiating the intersections of literary studies, anthropomorphized robotics, and the impact of these technologies on society. The Robotic Imaginary exposes the ways in which robot technologies perpetuate existing racial and gender hierarchies...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 151–154.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Eleni Coundouriotis Works Cited Coetzee J. M. Disgrace . New York : Penguin , 2000 . Slaughter Joseph . Human Rights, Inc. New York : Fordham UP , 2007 . “ Universal Declaration of Human Rights .”, 1948 . < http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ > (accessed...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 465–468.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 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...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 313–337.
Published: 01 November 2001
.... "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...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 375–378.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Saikat Majumdar Incorporated into Humanity
joseph r. slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International
Law (New York: Fordham UP, 2007), pp. 435, paper, $28.00.
Within the field of literary studies, when we read novels in relation...
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Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 3. Drawing by Jan van Riemsdyck. Tabula 26 in William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus , 1774 ( Jordanova 84 ). By permission of University of Glasgow, Special Collections.
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
...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...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 May 2012
...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...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
...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...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... 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...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 504–510.
Published: 01 November 2009
... 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...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 210–225.
Published: 01 August 2018
...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...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 425–441.
Published: 01 November 2019
...—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...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 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...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Mario Ortiz-Robles Thomas Hardy's naturalism offers a view of human affairs based on probable outcomes that makes visible the biopolitical realignments of society at the end of the nineteenth century. In this essay, the figure of the animal in Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) acts as a test case...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
... bears out in its plot an indictment of law's inherent abjections and an interrogation of the value of life that seem to precociously articulate the consensus of today's hegemonic biopolitical theory: that human institutions tend inexorably to subjugate humanity itself. Yet the form of the novel develops...
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