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...Ezra Dan Feldman Abstract The form and formlessness of histories, regions, races, ballads, fictions, lists, characters, and mountains are among the topics of concern in Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days , and they pose a real challenge to conveying what this novel is like. Caroline Levine's Forms...

..., 1998 . Dunlop , John . The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age . London: n.p., 1814 . Ferris , Ina . The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender, History...

...” through what ʿAbd al-Muḥsin Ṭaha Badr in his classic and influential study calls “direct imitation” ( taqlīd mubāshir ) ( Badr 43 ), while they also have regarded translations that do not imitate the original directly as “poor” and “irresponsible” ( Moosa 107 ). It is for this reason that John Updike...

... situations and experienced by vulnerable creatures: that is, a real world. Work Cited Goldsmith Steven . Blake’s Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2013 . ...

...LISA O’CONNELL ELLEN POLLAK, Incest and the English Novel, 1684–1814 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003), pp. 280, hardcover, $39.95 Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity ELLEN POLL* Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814...

... and pleasures of imaginative works for their readers and audiences on the other. He also joins such historians as J. H. Plumb and John Brewer who have drawn attention to the sheer amount of cultural pleasure and energy that Britain's vibrant a4urbanizing eighteenth-century market economy was able...

...John Plotz This article argues that the time has come to reconsider John Stuart Mill's relationship to the novel and to pay more heed to his reflections on the complicated interplay between text-based and face-to-face forms of social intercourse. His early essay “What Is Poetry?” begins a journey...

...Leila Mansouri This article argues that the unusual depiction of metempsychosis central to Robert Montgomery Bird's 1836 novel Sheppard Lee exposes instabilities in the notion of property that is foundational to John Locke's Second Treatise on Government . Key to this argument is a feature of Lee's...

...John Frow This is the introduction to a special issue of Novel , “The Prosaic Imaginary,” edited by John Frow and Vanessa Smith. The editors ask the question: what is the relationship between the novel's prosaic subject matter and novel reading as an everyday activity? Both parts of this question...

... at the time, especially John Dewey, found in interest a key structuring device for the expansion of the school system, novelists like Frank Norris cultivated a literature of disgust in order to think through the limits of that school system, to mark the system's boundaries. And yet, far from inhibiting...

... and readers. Even as Phineas Finn speaks the idiom of John Stuart Mill's liberal orientation toward feelings and beliefs, the novel's distribution of narrative focalization provides an alternative pedagogy in Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian orientation toward action. Reading the novel's form against its content...

... Hobbes and John Locke; and the use of contemporary phenomenology on touch by Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida. The resulting interpretation identifies Pamela as a “chiropractress” who resorts to the religious violence of the miracle in order to neutralize the patriarchal hand and obtain political...

...John Kucich Abstract Generic innovation has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South hybridizes two nineteenth-century narrative genres—political melodrama and domestic fiction—to invite readerly involvement in the creation of new...

...John Carlos Rowe Andrew Gaedtke , Modernism and the Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Narrative Worlds ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2017 ), pp. 254 , cloth, $99.99 . Copyright © 2019 by Novel, Inc. 2019 Andrew Gaedtke's study of the relationship between...

...John Attridge Abstract A capacity for vicarious experience is one of Lambert Strether's most celebrated characteristics, apparent not only in his famous injunction to Little Bilham to “live all you can,” but also in his more general attitude toward Chad Newsome's life in Paris, which he proposes...

...John Sampson Abstract “Untimely Love” reassesses the aesthetic choices and political implications of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (1920), first by highlighting a surprising overlap between Wharton and the anarcho-feminist Emma Goldman. Wharton's novelistic critique of New York society's...

...John Marx Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 With this issue, Novel launches a new section titled “Virtual Archives.” Here we will publish short essays that update and explain the new or continued relevance of critical-theoretical works of scholarship essential to novel studies. Our...

...John Cayley Martin Paul Eve , Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2019 ), pp. 272 , paper, $25.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Any of us who may have been anxious...

...John Kucich Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. British political fiction was a satirical genre until Benjamin Disraeli married it to the bildungsroman in Coningsby...