... literature; I tease out its approach to “the world” by exploring it alongside a recent novel representing one of the local worlds with which Glissant is most concerned. I focus on Edward P. Jones's depiction of a slave plantation in Virginia in 1855 in The Known World (2003). Reading this novel in light...

... of Ambiguity and Emblem in Tom Jones.” ELH 35.2 ( 1968 ): 188 –217. Battestin , Martin C. Introduction. Joseph Andrews and Shamela. By Henry Fielding. Ed. Martin C. Battestin Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961 . v –xl. Battestin , Martin C. The Moral Basis of Fielding’s Art: A Study...

... superstition they claimed was perpetuated by magic shows. Fielding performs the same boundary-work in Tom Jones , carefully contrasting the enlightened “poetic Faith” solicited by the rationalized clockwork of his plot with the superstition incited by the baroque machinery of spectacular narratives that he...

...Stephanie Insley Hershinow In this essay, I confront the problem of character inconsistency in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones by first showing how the novel is positively influenced by the example of naive virtue and class conversion found in Samuel Richardson's Pamela , which Fielding had previously...

... noted the significance for the novel, for American letters, and for literary and critical studies, even as black women writers like Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, and Gayl Jones—together with a rising body of black feminist scholars and critics—had been engaged...

...ANNA JONES Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Works Cited Bersani , Leo . The Freudian Body: psychoanalysis and art . New York: Columbia UP, 1986 . Braddon , Mary Elizabeth . Lady Audley’s Secret . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Brantlinger , Patrick . “What...

...DEANNA KREISEL JASON B. JONES, Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 160, cloth, $59.95, paper, $22.95, CD, $9.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Historicizing Historicism JASON B. JONES, hst...

...Vanessa Ryan ANNA MARIA JONES, Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007), pp. 163, cloth, $34.95. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 What Novels Do anna maria jones, Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction...

...JAMES V. CATANO KATHLEEN GREGORY KLEIN, ed. Diversity and Detective Fiction (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999), pp. 262, cloth, $51.95, paper, $25.95. PRISCILLA L. WALTON AND MANINA JONES. Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition...

... that includes Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , Henry Fielding's Tom Jones , Frances Burney's Camilla , Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels, and Austen's Emma . From its pairing of Burney's fiction and Tina Fey's sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to its epilogue, which moves from Austen to Amy Heckerling's...

... consideration of Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747–48) and Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749), Conway takes her reader all the way up to texts that traditionally prefigure a late eighteenth-century modernity and also to texts (speaking now of Clarissa and Tom Jones) that are more often set in opposition...

... as an “interactive game” (135). In playing this game, the reader gains practice in the art of prediction, Jonathan Wild producing a reader “capable of matching wits with true literary criminals” and Tom Jones engaging the reader in the practice of risk analysis (162). The limitations of approaching narrative...

... of Texas P, 1986 . 1 -7. Black , Scott . “The Adventures of Love in Tom Jones.” Henry Fielding in Our Time . Ed. J. A. Downie. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008 . 27 -50. Cervantes , Miguel de . Don Quixote . Trans. Tobias Smollett. New York: Modern Library, 2001...

... . The Invention of Monolingualism . New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2016 . Hertz Neil . The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime . New York : Columbia UP , 1985 . Jameson Fredric . The Antinomies of Realism . New York : Verso , 2013 . Jones Lloyd...

... to the art of fiction and the art of politics, then why, for instance, does the word accident occur in Tom Jones more than a hundred times? What would at first seem a glaring contradiction on Fielding's part in fact provides a foundation for his narrative ethics, which uses accident to build rather than...

... Tragedy , and Edward P. Jones's The Known World . What unites these texts is what Weinstein disarmingly calls their “wobbly” hold on temporal sequence, which “usually takes the form of a character marking out units of time in the face of experiences that make that impossible” (4, 6). Weinstein's patient...

... and Absalom Jones as a point of reference for considering Brown’s literary experiment with the episode in Arthur Mervyn. I am not sure that Brown critics will be startled by Otter’s emphasis on Brown’s skepticism about early American civic and psy- chological ideals, though his reading of Brown wisely...

... : Oxford UP , 1992 . 260 – 95 . Fielding Henry . Tom Jones . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1996 . Franzen Jonathan . The Corrections . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2001 . Freedman Jonathan . Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity...

... claims that Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes misrepresent him in their response to his review of Daniel Stedman Jones’s Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. Clune writes that while he appreciates Jones’s central argument (that neoliberalism resulted from...

... imaginary gain voice through literature. Creative writers make these "dead speak. And so, too, do authors of other cultural texts: Tupac Shakur, Bill T. Jones, and the Hughes brothers. Holland's fifth chapter takes a leap, following the radical maneuvers of indus- trial/thrash/rap band...