...- rowing of moral vision that I shall argue has ominous significance for how we might imagine a transformative politics to set against the deepening barbarism of our time. Parable of the Sower is written in the form of a diary as kept by a fifteen-year- old African American girl. Lauren Olamina...

...Lauren Byler Anthony Trollope's infamous obsession with composing novels in as efficient a manner as possible founders on the rhetorical excess of the metaphors he employs to signify utility: shoes and shoe making. Like the ornate metaphors for utility that illustrate and obstruct Trollope's theory...

...LAUREN M. E. GOODLAD Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Ahmed , Sara . Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality . London: Routledge, 2000 . Aldrich , Robert . Colonialism and Homosexuality London: Routledge, 2003 . Anderson , Amanda...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad Recent critical thought has begun to recognize realist fiction as a transnational medium that responds to capitalist permutations across time and space and, in doing so, is shot through with aesthetic possibility. The essays in this special issue reject the reflex to prejudge...

...Shirley Samuels © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 LAUREN BERLANT, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham: Duke UP, 2008), pp. 368, cloth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. Political Complaint lauren berlant, The Female...

...: Manual Production and Victorian Colonial Narratives 253 james buzard Expansion, Interruption, Autoethnography: Toward Disorienting Fiction, Part 2 261 lauren byler...

... formof ‘‘modern statepersonhood’’ (11) characterized byambivalencetoward politicalauthor- ity and attachment to the very structures that bind one. Self-avowedly indebted to the work of thinkers such as Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, and Jacqueline Rose, Aslami’s study inter- estingly aims to establish...

...Aarthi Vadde Work Cited Berlant Lauren . Cruel Optimism . Durham : Duke UP , 2011 . All of this is to say that thinking with Contemporary Drift is a pleasure. This book does not just take up residence in the already crowded field of contemporary literature; it gives...

... urban chronicle Portrait with Keys ( 2006 ) and two narratives that effectively protagonize the city's mutancy by condensing it onto the human body, Neill Blomkamp's District 9 ( 2009 ) and Lauren Beukes's science fiction/urban fantasy novel Zoo City ( 2010 ). These texts can be understood...

... literary and social forms as “ordering principles” ( 3 ); “new formalists” such as Susan Wolfson and Robert Kaufman advanced conceptions of form as modes of perception and thought; Lauren Berlant utilizes materialist notions of form drawn in part from the work of Raymond Williams in order to analyze...

..., the notion that communicative reason and Enlightenment norms held sway in the nineteenth-century bourgeois public sphere has been challenged from a number of angles. Most pertinently, Lauren Berlant has argued that “around 1830 a shift in emphasis with respect to the ethics of Enlightenment subjectivity...

...Anna Kornbluh Goodlad Lauren , The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2015 ), pp. 320, cloth, $95.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Narrative cannot but remain allegorical, since...

...” and in its use of cinematic space to stage the possibility of amicable if incongruous contemporaneity. Works Cited Berlant Lauren . “ Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta .” Public Culture 19 . 2 ( 2007 ): 273 – 301 . Bersani Leo . Thoughts...

.... Snell. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998 . 54 -77. Berlant , Lauren . The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991 . ———. “Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding).” Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion . Ed...

... that a realist-appearing realism is impossible to describe? And yet this is precisely what this special issue of Novel tries to do. This makes sense, because the guest editor, Lauren Goodlad, is well aware (and deeply critical) of the consequences of Jameson's influential privileging of modernism's realism...

...) and the more immediately felt conditions faced by situated and vulnerable subjects has had an enduring influence on our critical frameworks of analysis. A more recent study, which can be seen as directly expressive of this tendency, is Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism , which invokes the concept of repair...

... and characterological features of this early and experimental work coalesce in an ontologically resonant landscape, the Red Deeps. In a recent essay on Wuthering Heights , Lauren M. E. Goodlad describes the “ontological work of narrative fiction,” illustrating how a dialectic of genre and place heightens readers...

... . Goodlad Lauren M. E. “‘Making the Working Man Like Me’: Charity, Pastorship, and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Thomas Chalmers and Dr. James Phillips Kay.” Victorian Studies 43 . 4 ( 2001 ): 591 – 617 . Haywood Ian , ed. The Literature of Struggle: An Anthology...

...” of political bad faith. Weinstein’s project is to oppose critics like Lauren Berlant, Laura Wexler, and Amy Kaplan, who have emphasized the sentimental novel’s stultifying political effects—its embrace of feeling over action, its complicity with male authority and racial hierarchies—by exploring...

..., 2007 . Goodlad , Lauren M. E. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003 . Haraway , Donna . The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness . Chicago: Prickly Paradigm...