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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
...' emotions than on its ability to move between different spatial interiors, from the oft-cited interiors of domestic architecture to the interiors of spaces that initially register as objects, such as women's detachable pockets as well as books and letters themselves. Ultimately, Pamela lays claim to her...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Anna Kornbluh There could scarcely be a novel more searingly critical of social contradictions than Thomas Hardy's last, and arguably the last Victorian one, Jude the Obscure . Between its Pauline epigraph (“the letter killeth”) and its unforgettable tragedy (“done because we are too menny”), Jude...
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1. Memorandum for the secretary of defense ( Gelb, “Letter” ). More
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 6. Letter from Mary Linley to Elizabeth Ann Sheridan, undated, ca. 1785–87 ( Linley ). Photographs by the author. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library More
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 86–111.
Published: 01 August 2004
... and L.J. West New York: Wiley & Sons, 1975 . 163 –96. Jacobus , Mary . “The Buried Letter: Feminism and Romanticism in Villette.” Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism . New York: Columbia UP, 1986 . 41 –61. Jay , Martin . Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Kate Wilkinson Abstract Daily communication today is predominantly digital, but contemporary novels continue to be interested in paper letters. Why? What do letters, written on paper, offer to the novel in the twenty-first century? This essay explores the material letter's contemporary value...
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Published: 01 August 2023
Figure 5. “The eye . . . viewing a row of letters.” Detail from Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty (plate 1, figure 14). Courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. More
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 163–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
... foregrounding of archival documents (letters, maps, ships' logs, newspaper clippings, etc.), loosens Powell's characters from the social identities to which they were bound. I offer a reading between novel and archive, focusing on a letter being written by Powell's protagonist, Lowe, and the letter's...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 169–175.
Published: 01 May 2010
... can openly address anyone, at periodic intervals, with dispatch and presumptive privacy. This new technology for ordinary communication at a distance influenced the novel in many ways. Novels were cast in the form of correspondence by letter; the post facilitated the dissemination of physical novels...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and even diminish the achievements of black women writers and their contributions to American letters. Sources from the New York Times to Henry Louis Gates Jr. labeled Morrison's win a “great day” for black women writers, for black Americans, and for African American literature; but few if any commentaries...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
...—Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno,” and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave —revealed the incoherence of “literature” as it gradually assumed its modern form. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 novella Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 504–518.
Published: 01 November 2016
... materially decipherable as paper sequences, portable objects, material containers of letters arranged on a page and yet not being fully free of this image of the book? Focusing on Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) and Ali Smith's The Accidental (2005) as novels that speak from what Jacques Derrida calls...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2018
...), I suggest that the creative writing program not only was instrumental in shaping postwar American letters but also continues to be of great relevance for contemporary global South writing. The article argues that developing-world MFA novelists have redeployed a Cold War programmatic imperative...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 470–474.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Deidre Lynch Sarah Chihaya , Merve Emre , Katherine Hill , and Jill Richards , The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism ( New York : Columbia UP , 2020 ), Literature Now, pp. 277 , paper, $25.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 52–76.
Published: 01 August 2007
...EDWARD LARKIN Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Adams , John . Letter to James Lloyd. January 1815 . The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States . Ed. Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 10 . Boston: Little, 1856 . 108 –14. Adams , John . Letter...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 72–77.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that mobility is the key to Dickens could focus on the jour- nals’ recurring characters—the “roving Englishmen” of Household Words or Dick- ens’s own “Uncommercial Traveller” from All the Year Round—or our sense of him, from letters and biographies, manically walking London’s streets. But as central...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 5–23.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Letters teach his possibly unlettered, definitely uneloquent readers how best to express themselves in a variety of social situations. Richardson believes that the right words will inspire correct conduct. His novels, like the Familiar Letters, provide Charles Edward Stuart was finally...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 274–275.
Published: 01 August 2000
... of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), pp. 192, $39.95. Arguing that twentieth-century scholarship on The Scarlet Letter has marginalized wom- en's critical voices in ways that echo the treatment of Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's novel, Jamie...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 362–378.
Published: 01 November 2021
... stars and folding back upon itself” (110). Virtually every document in Ulysses is folded, unfolded, and often refolded, including Leopold Bloom's letter from his flirtatious correspondent Martha Clifford, his copy of the Freeman's Journal , his prospectus for the Zionist colony of Agendath Netaim...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 240–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
... the provocative condition of the other” (4). 15 Translated by Hilary Tsui with the assistance of Dr. Frank Filser. 16 This particular letter is addressed not to Hermon Ould but to Henrietta Leslie, another member of the PEN committee, in response to a wider call for donations to an Austrian...