... and distribution regimes, and the careers of dramatizers, directors, and stars. Focusing on the early twenty-first century adaptations of Jane Austen's novels, I argue here that the differing ways print and filmic media are packaged, advertised, and sold or exhibited to potential cultural consumers creates...

...JASON SOLINGER Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987 . Austen , Jane . Northanger Abbey . Cutchogue, NY: Buccanneer, 1976 . Austen , Jane...

...Mary A. Favret Did Jane Austen have a period? Did she have periods? This essay surveys the particularly gendered politics that attempt to situate Austen and her work within a fixed and dateable period. To counter that impulse, it introduces a different temporal understanding of the period...

...Sarah Comyn Abstract To address in economic terms what D. A. Miller calls “Austen Style” and Anne Toner, following G. H. Lewes, identifies as Jane Austen's “economy of art,” this article uses Austen's major novels and final unfinished manuscript to examine the changing relationship between...

...LORRI G. NANDREA Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Works Cited Adams , James Eli . “Gyp’s Tale: On Sympathy, Silence, and Realism in Adam Bede.” Timko, Kaplan, and Guiliano 227 –42. Bellis , Peter J. “In the Window-Seat: Vision and Power in Jane Eyre.” ELH 54.3 ( 1987...

... and gustatory appetite, between the marriage plot that gives the nineteenth-century novelistic social its privileged form and what I call “the food plot.” And it is Jane Austen, I argue, who made this dichotomy central to the way we read. Situating Austen's fiction in relation to Malthusian political economy...

...William B. Warner WELLS JULIETTE , Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination ( New York : Continuum , 2012 ), pp. 256 , paper, $29.95 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Austen Jane . Sense and Sensibility . Ed. Copeland...

...Wendy Veronica Xin Abstract This essay reads several “hidden” scenes in Jane Austen's Emma . Willfully drawing attention to stray details—an impulsive trip to London to get his hair cut, the mysterious gift of a piano, and a broken pair of spectacles—Frank Churchill uses these incidents to turn...

... as well as news about novels; among familiar correspondents, the post increased the buzz about novels. Through a reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility , this article shows how the writing, posting, arrival, and overseeing of letters in this novel unfolds in ways the characters cannot control...

...Srdjan Smajić This essay argues that the relationship between realism and supernaturalism in realist novels is more complicated—and more symbiotic—than critics generally acknowledge. Taking Walter Scott's Waverley , George Eliot's Silas Marner , and Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre as representative...

...Amanpal Garcha Abstract In its depictions of characters' processes of decision-making, Jane Austen's Emma incorporates a model of choice that later came to dominate neoclassical economics. This model is preferential choice, which asserts that individuals choose based on their subjective...

...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...

...Jane Elliott Focusing on Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake , this essay examines what I term “dramas of immediacy” in recent North American fiction. Postmodern novels of the 1980s and 1990s were defined in part by their interest in the way in which narrative shaped our experience, particularly...

...JANE ELLIOTT MARK CURRIE, About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007), pp. 176, cloth, £40.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Rethinking Narrative Time MARK cum, About Time: Narrative, Fiction...

...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...

...Jane F. Thrailkill Lundblad Michael , The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2013 ), 240 pp., cloth, $69.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 There is an important biologic backstory to Michael...

...Sachelle Ford Hardison Ayesha K. , Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2014 , pp. 296, cloth, $65.00 , paper, $29.50 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Even as recent literary...

...JANET C. MYERS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Works Cited Archibald , Diana C. “Angel in the Bush: Exporting Domesticity through Female Emigration.” Ed. Kranidis. 228 –47. Brontë , Charlotte . Jane Eyre . New York: Penguin, 1996 . Brontë , Charlotte...

...MARY HONG Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Austen , Jane . Emma . New York: Penguin, 1985 . Barthes , Roland . “The Reality Effect...

...Amanda Gilroy DEIRDRE LYNCH, ed., Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 233 + ix, cloth, $32.00, paper, $19.95. YOU-ME PARK AND RAJEWARI SUNDER RAJAN, eds., The Postcolonial Jane Austen (London: Routledge Press, 2000), pp...