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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
... structure and into the deepest cultural imaginings of self and world. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 affect epistemology The Death of Marat laissez-faire capitalism Waste Land By the linking of rational epistemology with imperialism, I mean the Cartesian privileging of a thinking...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 197–200.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of laissez- faire capitalism is what enables Cowperwood to thrive, such as he does. Zimm- argues that, by contrast, Sinclair's novel, in narrating accountability, depends too mu& on "an increasingly outdated notion of republican virtue, an equation between moral independence, economic self...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 136–138.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of American Momas an innocent, naturalized phe- nomenon in the politics of Manifest Destiny during the nineteenth century and, more re- cently, in relation to the values of laissez-faire capitalism, which has sought "to convert people into consumers and thereby expand markets" (xi). One...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 273–275.
Published: 01 August 2006
... of cultural studies, and the early waves of postimperial fiction. The Bloomsbury associate J.M. Keynes steers away from a chaotic and atomized modern world of laissez-faire capitalism to a system founded on the maintenance of order by the nation-state, a reduction of scale again stressing particularity...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 69–103.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of saving-is NOVEL I FALL 2001 Victorian received wisdom taken to an extreme. Ruskin's work, both in Munera Pulveris and elsewhere, forms a sustained critique of the economics of David Ricardo and his followers: he is both a sharp critic of laissez-faire...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 157–165.
Published: 01 August 2018
... history now attributed to neoliberalism has actually been three centuries in the making. Reber begins with the concept of laissez-faire coined by the mid-eighteenth-century Physiocrats who argued that the economy should be free of regulations to develop according to its own natural law. She shows how...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 283–304.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Marius Hentea Abstract Although the rise of the bureaucratic state was one of the most startling transformations of early twentieth-century British society, novelists raised on a diet of laissez-faire liberalism tended to shy away from direct representations of bureaucracy (with some prominent...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 32–50.
Published: 01 May 1999
... and guilds by 1820, but vigorously defending its indus- tries from foreign competition through the 1840s. This laissez-faire rule might give way only in exceptional cases such as child labor, which attracted legislative attention from Peel's Health and Morals of Apprentices Act of 1820 to the Whig...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 271–293.
Published: 01 August 2010
... must reject the relatively nurturing, intimate, and connected (though by no means egalitarian) ideology of agrarianism to embrace, instead, the principles of laissez- faire capitalism with its emphasis on the responsibility of individuals to make their own way in the world. Part of what Tom must...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in hand with the active maintenance of traditional rural relations and princely states, as well as the highly unstable and cyclical nature of the city's own development following almost a century of laissez-faire urban policy, during which land and buildings became resources for capital accumulation...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 62–85.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in the fantasmatic moment when individuals imagine that the state has the power to transform their lives. The Woodlanders thus bears witness to and sounds out late nineteenth-century formal transformations in laissez-faire government, the rational and unified lib- eral subject, and the Victorian realist...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 May 1999
... the dominant economic paradigms of Edwardian England. Though Marshallians advocated a laissez-faire economic policy (an approach George Ponderevo retrospectively rejects when he rails against the implicit government sanctioning of the "whole trend of modern money-making" [74 Alfred Marshall's theory...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
...) autobiographical fiction” (96–97). Despite the writing program's laissez-faire pedagogy (in comparison with traditional English departments), the postwar structure of group workshops and writing exercises streamlined a distinctly bourgeois, professionalized consciousness. While the writing program emerges...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 424–442.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., ­laissez-faire world of neoclassical economics, in which “the market” is a hypo- thetical extrapolation from observations of individual markets or firms, Keynes’s system of averages and aggregates contains economic activity within frames of both national generality (all the economic activities...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 265–288.
Published: 01 November 2007
... a form of challenge to indiscriminate public tolerance of this particularly laissez-faire system, and towards those clones who tolerate it. The disgust triggered by the idea that cultural evidence of interiority- Tommy's, or anybody's-could be a kind of means test for receiving public...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 307–336.
Published: 01 November 2006
...-as welt as Marxists and poststructuralists-have offered worthwhile criticisms of atomized individualism, laissez-faire, "free" markets, and other neoliberal shibboleths. Discussing Forster in light of the le&-leaning, social democratic tradition within liberalism, the "large...