...CATHY SHUMAN CAROLINE LESJAK, Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 288, cloth, $79.95, paper, $22.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Pleasure Works CAROLINE LEsJAK, Working Fictions: A Genealogy...

... representative—realism is either a hand-me-down, historically stale form or an aspiration toward totality housed within a form that looks anything but realist. In a 2006 essay “History, Narrative and Realism: Jameson's Search for a Method,” Carolyn Lesjak argues that Jameson's famous model of “cognitive mapping...

...CAROLYN LESJAK JENNIFER RUTH, Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 192, cloth, $69.95, paper, $24.95, CD, $9.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Professional...

... and the Nowl. He is currently interested in the transportation revolution, which gave rise to the standardization of time through which we coordinate our lives together, and the novels of Dickens, which he sees as particularly sensitive to that historic transformation. CAROLYN LESJAK is Associate...

... the violent coexistence of dislocation and dispossession alongside entrapment, confinement, and enclosure. The collision of these processes remakes economic and ecological relations. Considering the function of enclosures in relation to primitive accumulation, Carolyn Lesjak suggests we be attuned...

... of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern .” Critical Inquiry 30 . 2 ( 2004 ): 225 – 48 . Lesjak Carolyn . “ Reading Dialectically .” Criticism 55 . 2 ( 2013 ): 233 – 77 . Liu Linda H. “ The Cybernetic Unconscious: Rethinking Lacan, Poe, and French Theory...

... Margaret could be said to play ( 25 ). 19 Lesjak, like many recent critics, deplores what she see as these novels' privileging of “private, domestic matters rather than collective, political ones” ( 15 ). 20 See Fraiman for an excellent survey of the conventions of domestic fiction...

... recent accounts, by critics such as Anna Kornbluh and Carolyn Lesjak , of the constructive potential of aesthetic form in relation to forms in the world. In seeing periodization and genre as central to how these novels relate to social forms, this essay departs from one notable recent treatment...

... rejoinder to exhausted modernist/postmodernist lines ( 262 ). Carolyn Lesjak has offered a useful account of the way Jameson's dialectical reading broaches the new and recirculated meaning of realisms now. She notes that for him the entire project of cognitive mapping is a kind of realist activity, and she...

.... This opens him up to new possibilities, even though the novel closes with the claim that choices are not possible. Because its taxonomic logics are provisional, dynamic, even dialectical (see Carolyn Lesjak's “Reading Dialectically” ), it cannot assign J. his full name or his proper category. John Henry...

... the entire globe” ( World-Systems 98 ). 14 Arrighi, Dipesh Chakrabarty , Wai Chee Dimock , Moretti, and Rob Nixon are only the best known of those who have been thinking in terms of long temporal durations. 15 Here, Lye is drawing on the work of Carolyn Lesjak . Works Cited...

... service or delivering food or groceries. However benign and liberating they might appear, these jobs are subject to precarities that are no less real because they are hidden. In Carolyn Lesjak's words, “Labor is precisely what needs to be repressed within capitalism—at the same time...