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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 August 2016
... , Lobban Michael , and Taylor Jenny Bourne , eds. Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . Frank Catherine O. Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837–1925 . Aldershot : Ashgate...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 66–85.
Published: 01 August 2004
... the daughter of a nobody, a tradesman wealthy enough to provide his daughter with an education and decent enough to keep his identity secret. Emma mentally comments that "[tlhe stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed" (394). Emma believes that wealth...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 497–504.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the Irish sense of possession. ‘‘Illegitimacy writes Maurer, ‘‘guarantees inalienable attachment to property’’ (46). Maurer traces this rhetoric of dispossession from an early tale of Edgeworth’s, ‘‘Simple Susan through the national tales, Castle Rackrent and Ennui (1809), identifying in the former...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 198–218.
Published: 01 August 2003
... order so much as it asserts the moral subject, buttressed by virtue, over the legal personality as a bearer of rights and duties. If the foundationlessness or "illegitimacy" of the revolutionary assertion of "abso- lute freedom" (to recall Hegel's diagnosis of the Terror) bears a dangerous re...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
... at Swift, Johnson, and Richardson . Berkeley : U of California P , 1964 . Schmidgen Wolfram . “Illegitimacy and Social Observation: The Bastard in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” ELH 69 ( 2002 ): 133 – 66 . Slattery William C. , ed. The Richardson-Stinstra Correspondence...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 121–126.
Published: 01 May 2018
... nominalism, unfolds a clear aesthetic, political, and epistemic project: the breaking down, namely, of the foundations of a social and intellectual order that reigned in Europe up until the French Revolution. The insistent discourse on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the novel in these times—the discursive...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 438–452.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Photographs’ and the Jewish Body in Daniel Deronda.” Representations 85 ( 2004 ): 58 – 97 . Picker John M. “George Eliot and the Sequel Question.” New Literary History 37 . 2 ( 2006 ): 361 – 88 . Rose Natalie . “The Englishness of a Gentleman: Illegitimacy and Race in Daniel...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 423–430.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of the stigma attached to illegitimacy, but it does not defend sex outside marriage; and as important as these scenarios are to the novel, neither is directly linked to what it presents as its more public concerns, such as Chan- cery and poverty. By contrast, Crafts broadcasts the equivalent connections...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 242–260.
Published: 01 August 2014
... or incapacity, competence or incompetence, participation or nonpar- ticipation, legitimacy or illegitimacy. The nexus between aesthetics and politics hinges on what they share/divide in common: a sensible and its distribution. Politics, or an act of political ‘‘subjectivation refers to ‘‘an enunciative...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 August 2016
... issue, Ayelet Ben-Yishai takes a different tack. She shows how Trollope's realism—and, by implication, realism more generally—foregrounds doubt rather than certainty. Is He Popenjoy? (1877–78), one of several Trollope novels that turn on the suspected illegitimacy of a key character, is rooted...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 446–464.
Published: 01 November 2015
... . The reader latches upon Daniel and not Mathieu because he is the ultimate hero; he is the one who presents to the reader an image of the world's illegitimacy. The reader—free to judge the novel on its own terms—therefore unbinds his or her decisions from the set of oppositions that point to a readily...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 176–197.
Published: 01 August 2003
..." to determine the illegitimacy of this frame. Just as James had been compelled to draft such legisla- tion as modernism began its emphasis on testimony, Genette's seminal work up- dates the ordinance to better police its post-Edwardian development. In Narrative Discourse, he writes, Chatman here...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 317–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
... novel to be “deeply experimental” when viewed in light of its engagement with the concept of illegitimacy (7). Her position also merits careful consideration, especially if we can no longer use the interior as a linking device between the two forms. There is a third option, however, that literary...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 108–131.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., Makiya experiences an intellectual awakening in the work of Hannah Arendt, from which he distills three primary lessons: how revolutionary violence, typi- cally a means to an end, then becomes an end in itself; how violent revolutionary actors evolve from illegitimacy to legitimacy, ‘‘politically...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 268–291.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., his mother turned to the Catholic church, whose influence on Waite’s writings was profound. Also, Waite’s illegitimacy may provide a key to the fictional Wait’s race, his sense of aggrievement, and his status as an outsider on a ship whose complement is hardly homogeneous to begin with. Given...