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...David Kurnick This essay aims to deepen our understanding of the intellectual and affective characteristics of novel reading by examining the tendency of George Eliot's heroines to drift free of the constraints of their own plots. It focuses on Eliot's historical novel Romola (1862-63...

...Joseph Litvak KURNICK DAVID , Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2012 ), pp. 280 , paper, $32.50 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press A House Is Not a Home DAVID KURNICK, Empty Houses...

... invades our space and won't leave? We can translate it and deny it, but we won't really be safe until we are convinced there is no window and therefore nothing behind it. The two halves of the imaginary (and real) continent are present in Kurnick's coda, and their meeting leads to his remark about...

... where the mind resists, or does not go forward without effort” ( 215 ). Echoes of this view sometimes appear in modern criticism: for instance, in David Kurnick's account of Romola as a “readerly” and “detached” character who seems to wish to flee not only her marriage but also “the obligations...

... be no better antidote to what David Kurnick has called our twenty-first-century “method melodramas,” where heroically trustful reading is pitted against corrosive paranoia. Gershkovich uncovers Tolstoy's and Nabokov's manipulations of the reading process text by text, as their techniques evolved over two...

... success,” the blush becomes a metaphor for the reparative potential of style. David Kurnick suggests that Jamesian style wants to substitute the focus on revealing individual subjectivity (what Kurnick terms “the drama of consciousness”) for a vision of “collectivity and universalism”: that could reduce...

... the removal of a party wall. The interaction between the once-independent structures provides an early example of James's use of theatrical concepts to place houses in dramatic relationship, an innovation that David Kurnick identifies in the novelist's later work. Kurnick focuses on James's use of dramatic...

... . Kurnick D. “ ‘Horrible Impossible’: Henry James’s Awkward Stage .” Henry James Review 26 . 2 ( 2005 ): 109 – 29 . Le Clair Robert C. Young Henry James, 1843–1879 . New York : AMS , 1971 . Lewis Alfred Henry . “ Alfred Henry Lewis on Literary Critics and Henry James .” New...

... critics—among them D. A. Miller, David Kurnick, Sianne Ngai, Gavin Jones, and most recently, Erica McAlpine 7 —who show a new interest in formal failure glimpsed as failure. Finally, one might ask whether there is also an affective, preconceptual dimension to criticism's deviance fetish, a writerly...

... “truth to individual experience” ( 13 ), critics have sought to rescue the form from the charge that it devalues the dimensions of experience that take place on a larger social scale. David Kurnick, in his study of the novel's buried collective aspirations, suggests that the history of the novel...

... representations of individual persons (see Kurnick ; Ohi ; and Moses ) and the lavish interiorization—indeed, veneration—of what he calls centers of consciousness, I argue in the following pages that a phenomenology of a character who will have nothing do with its narrative enhances our understanding not only...

... middle, that zone of literary experience typically subordinated to the beginning and the ending. Recent scholarship has sought to recuperate the middle: for David Kurnick, it is the site of readerly desire; 25 for Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles it is potentially a source of “significance...

..., but instead of explaining its subject, the sentence moves horizontally toward contiguous material. “One of the strangest effects of James's late style,” David Kurnick writes, “is the way its feats of grammatical subordination achieve the effect of a purely lateral, or additive, syntax. Rhetoricians note...

... . The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1981 . Kreilkamp Ivan . Voice and the Victorian Storyteller . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2005 . Kurnick David . Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2012...

... that this underlies the distinctive formal qualities of a Victorian “geopolitical aesthetic,” which often resides in exceptional spatial configurations and landscapes (29). 6 Writing on Middlemarch ( 1871 ), David Kurnick suggests that “if we understood readerly desire to be directed not toward...

... ): 214 – 33 . Kurnick David . Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2012 . Latour Bruno . Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2005 . Maxwell James Clerk . The Scientific Papers...