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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 May 2016
... the world ( Elias and Moraru xxvii, xix ). In so doing, it promises to fulfill the utopian potential of Aldo Leopold's “extension of ethics” to the land ( 238 ), Roderick Frazier Nash 's “widening . . . circle of ethical relevancy” (56), and Peter Singer 's “expanding . . . circle of moral concern” (191...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 26–48.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of land west of the Mississippi River. Fraught with the tensions of territorial expansion, the “empty empire” of the prairie is an exemplary site of land speculation at the heart of American frontierism. The Prairie wrestles with what it means to capture this new land by introducing a figure...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
...-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( 1793 ) alongside Vik Muniz's Marat/Tião as depicted in the documentary film Waste Land ( 2010 ) as evidence of the epistemological continuity between the laissez-faire and neoliberal political landscapes of the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, respectively...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 49–64.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to their land. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Property picaresque nineteenth century United States How do you create novels on a land without a past? Early American writers looking out on the United States' new settlements asked themselves this question as they struggled to adapt...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for the idea that natural categories become the focus of a form of political rationalization based on chance. Wessex, the historical name Hardy gives to the fictional land on which most of his writing is set, can be understood from this perspective as a biopolitical construct upon which humans both obey...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
... selfhood through effecting a dynamic whereby her movable possessions—her letters, her pockets in particular—become spatial territories of the self that challenge the authority of land ownership conferred to her social superiors. She effects, in other words, a shift in social relations as defined...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 May 2016
... conference would aim at something like a reconstruction of the entire nexus of land and the novel from the ground up, including broader considerations of political theology and conflict, the cosmopolitan and the indigenous. The panel topics are intentionally diverse, ranging from specific historical...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., language, and region, can this same literary form then “obliterate” social cohesion or at least make its incoherence legible? 2 It is this negative aspect of the novel's involvement in the horizon of legibility of social relations that concerns me here. Land is one basis of social cohesion...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 66–85.
Published: 01 August 2004
... from Malthus, the principal sign of
this development was the "high farming" financed by the flow of capital onto
land. However, all was not well in the general economy. For a start, there was an
endemic problem with forgery. Large bank notes were difficult to pass in a coin
economy: small notes...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 323–343.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., with Marlow's assistance, in a “land without a past”: a region called Patusan (197). Here, Jim finds “greatness as genuine as any man ever achieved,” bringing peace and order to a land previously riddled with conflict (177). Eventually, however, his past catches up with him in the form of a lawless pirate named...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2013
... . “Headfort/Headford.” Landed Estates Database . Moore Institute, National University of Ireland , Galway , 2011 < http://www.landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=492 >. Kelleher Margaret . The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Unexpressible...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 August 2020
...—coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine, some months after a first, brief visit. She is to spend the summer there, observing, participating, and writing. All of the novel's episodes are subtended by a dual trajectory of narrative purpose: the rendering and description of this dying world in miniature...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2007
... incident" suggests that reflection on the som-
ber facts of imperial violence is different on either side of the Atlantic. In early
national America, the cultural projects of mourning and melancholy are deci-
sively conditioned by conflict over the land itself. At a basic symbolic level, the
land...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 461–481.
Published: 01 November 2018
... theories can be broadened and complicated by a shift in focus to literary works that narrate, from colonists' points of view, the occupation and repopulation of foreign lands. Described variously as the “settler's plot” ( Calder ), “settler dreaming” ( Turner, “Settler Dreaming” ), or “allegories...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 193–196.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of a distinctly "American" literature. The story gas sometlung like
this: American literature distinguishes itself from other national literary traditions by its
emergence out of a peculiar set of experiences with the distinctive land of the New World.
The American land, in this way, gives American...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 276–279.
Published: 01 August 2006
... essentially ended Asian immi-
gration and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 11. Its primary con-
cern, however, is with the Alien Land Laws passed during this period-legislation that
made it increasingly illegal for Japanese Americans to own land. She points out...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 290–296.
Published: 01 August 2009
... discovered lands and seas pushed nations to figure out some
protocols for their management. Within this new world, there were two kinds of
spaces, the “free land,” in the sense of land “free for appropriation by Europeans,”
and “the newly discovered oceans, conceived by the French, Dutch and English...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Anthropocene terraforming urban ecology urban literature speculative fiction When we think of “the land” and its literary representations, what usually comes to mind are the rural landscapes of Thomas Hardy or Willa Cather, the wild landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper, the social meanings of land...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., “Of Trespassers and Trash,” studies Gordi-
mer’s The Conservationist in a New Historicist fashion against certain historical documents
from the period to show the psychosocial implications of apartheid’s forced removal of
black people from their land. In the fourth chapter, “A Man’s Scenery,” Barnard reads...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 497–504.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of dispossession in
Ireland, she suggests, resulted in a stronger attachment to the land. It also provided an
occasion for thinking about what the responsibilities and prerogatives of a British state that
included Ireland were or should be.
Both books, too, extend in provocative ways the groundbreaking...
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