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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Interiority
audrey jaffe, The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market
Graph (Ohio State UP, 2010), pp. 138, cloth, $59.95, paper, $24.95.
In The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph, Audrey
Jaffe makes a series of bold...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 May 1999
... Interiors
SHARON MARCUS, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 323, $45.00.
In a 1993 essay on Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, Sharon Marcus argues that even though
that novel focuses almost exclusively, indeed...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Julie Park Revisiting Richardson's Pamela as a site of “spatial formalism,” this essay maintains that the notion of the domestic interior as a setting conducive to psychological interiority requires further materialist analysis. It argues that the interiority of Pamela hinges less on characters...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 317–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Abby Scribner Abstract This article takes up two famously disliked nineteenth-century novels—Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Charlotte Brontë's Villette —and argues that they are dissatisfying to readers because their protagonists fail to cohere as liberal subjects around a legible interior realm...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 234–252.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Kate Marshall This essay makes the case for a reconsideration of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy within the history of the modernist novel and its medial legacies by attending to the complex relationship enacted throughout the text between material forms and structures of interiority...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
... unity. This article demonstrates this post‐global conceptualization through two of 2020’s most successful novels: Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown . What, then, is the analytic value of worldwide comparisons for a post‐global movement? To answer this question, the US...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 218–239.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of interiorized characters and in open-ended narrative forms. Such an acknowledgment shows Austen's recognition that consumerist habits of mind are important to literary production, especially at a moment when novels vied for attention in a competitive literary marketplace. In such a marketplace, readers chose...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 236–254.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Michael Dango This article argues that the form of Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn mediates sociality without the resources of interiority. This has important ramifications for understanding the politics of the novel by way of the kinds of relationality it makes available between characters...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 August 2017
... traditionally been construed in terms of his granular representations of individual persons and the lavish interiorization—indeed, veneration—of what he calls “centers of consciousness,” a phenomenology of a character who will have nothing do with its narrative enhances our understanding not only of Isabel...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2018
... this constitution of character through collectivity, it disrupts both the interiorized mental procedures of Millian liberalism and our own critical practice of reading characters as metaphysically more than the cultural information of which they are composed. By unleashing statistical sciences into the dimension...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
... within the literary system. Firs both encodes and observes the gradual denaturing and collapse of its own classical-realist premises, which cannot abide the drawing into equivalence of character, interiority, and interpersonal communication with the inhuman formalism of systems. In the wake...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 368–388.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and shifting conceptions of literary character, I trace how the Austenian marriage plot that so crucially shaped the nineteenth-century British novel trains us to be primarily interested in a form of heterosexually structured interiority that measures its depth, in part, through its distance from appetite. ©...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 116–132.
Published: 01 May 2013
... such as Samuel Beckett theorized a modernism without introspection. In his essays “Dante … Bruno … Vico … Joyce” (1929) and Proust (1930), Beckett argued that the psychological interiority of high modernist fiction could be attributed to nonmental and behavioristic causes. And in his novel Murphy (1936), he...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 63–84.
Published: 01 May 2015
... installment, turning novel form into an ongoing formation. The resulting model of character psychology is one that replaces interiority with interaction and individuated desire with physiological affect. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Charles Dickens serial science In an 1872...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Edward Larkin CASTIGLIA CHRISTOPHER , Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States ( Durham : Duke UP , 2008 ), pp. 400 , cloth, $89.95 , paper, $24.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 477–481.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., this mode of allegory, which presumes a universally accessible religious or transcendent—that is, “cosmic”—referent, begins to break down. Goethe's particular turn is to substitute the cosmic referent with an unknowable and invisible interiority: “[H]e learned from this older tradition of moral allegory...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 189–209.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Eliot's belief in realism's sheer superiority as an art form. For her, it lords over other art forms, other genres, other tastes. The novel is self-conscious, sometimes archly so, in making this case. Realism is especially superior, she implies, in privileging interiority, in a quite literal way...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2020
... characters seem doll-like. The characters on whom she focuses are akin to the subtype of Forster's flat characters who vibrate with an oddly seductive intensity. They are not “flat,” in the sense of being stereotypical or unengaging; yet they are also not “deep,” in the sense of surprising us with interior...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 August 2020
...: the early history of British nationalism, which, as Zuroski recognizes, unfolds from its beginnings in contexts that are already imperial and incipiently global, and the history of the modern self, with all its uneasy negotiations between interior experience and exterior acquirements and appearances...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2016
... but not yet replaced. Rather than reject the convention outright, Pearl claims, his authors dramatize the failure of apparent utopias located in real geographic space. Yet these imaginary worlds do not collapse without leaving a trace: their ruins are converted into “utopian interiorities” and “utopian...
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