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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Patrick Mullen This essay uses the figure of Lily Bart in terms of the trope of self-management in order to consider relations among forms of gendered and embodied consciousness, formations of knowledge, and the contradictory flows of capital at the turn of the twentieth century. The author argues...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 268–277.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of novel production, the girl propels his novels through their marriage plot but can also clog this narrative by failing to form a pair. Despite Trollope's distaste for his popular heroine, Lily Dale, this girl—who buys herself a pair of shoes rather than pairing herself in marriage—may be Trollope's most...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 322–338.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Lily Saint Abstract This essay challenges recent theories of world literature that argue that the global anglophone novel, in particular, instantiates empathic, ethical connection across and beyond nation-states. Taking cues from Teju Cole's Open City , it understands the urge to connect...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in the details of Lily Bart's suitors' personal libraries and how they relate to her status as a commodity on the marriage market. Lawrence Selden's elaborately bound edition of a rare work in his modest but pretentious library shows “that if [Lily] wants to be ‘purchased’ by Selden, [she] needs to convey both...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... happy years I have been the mistress of Bleak House” (985). In the final subsection of “The Lighthouse,” Lily and Mr. Carmichael gaze intently across the water to the lighthouse with their backs turned to the coastal home that occupied so much narrative space up to this point. In the former...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 121–143.
Published: 01 May 2007
... in a work of art brings the issue
of aesthetic force into the novel in yet another way.
Perowne's visit to his mother Lily, whose dementia leaves her unable to rec-
ognize her son or the room she has just left, contrasts the intricate connectedness
of his sentences with her enigmatic ones...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2017
... (“the republic of the spirit” that Edith Wharton 's 1905 House of Mirth offers, ironically, as Lily's Bart's unrealizable ideal). 11 Yet his projected future, unattainable as it is, has a kind of reality nonetheless. Just as a magic-lantern image needs a medium (think of Proust's Golo, trotting across...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 275–295.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of ethnographers studied the indig-
enous peoples of North America, but the second and third generations moved out
around the world, and especially to Africa (Herskovits eventually making half a
dozen research trips there, for example). Henderson begins his second marriage
to Lily in a caricature of home...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Planchette's Diary (1868) and Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Bertha and Lily (1854)—that take up the cultural and religious practices of spiritualism. Readers of this journal will likely be more familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne's skeptical interpretation of spiritualism in The Blithedale Romance (1852...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... Now, many bungalows cluster near it, but when this story begins only the cupolas of a dozen old villas rotted like water lilies among the massed pines between Gausse's Hôtel des Étrangers and Cannes, five miles away. ( 3 ) There are any number of ways to read this description. The striking...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... (On
this, see Lily Litvak's anglosajones: olzgenes de una politnica [1971 The move was not new
and already had a history with an important chapter in Europe from 1870 on. If some of
the lines of inquiry suggested by Sharman were to be followed, it would become more
apparent that many...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 151–154.
Published: 01 May 2022
... (or, in the case of Lily Bart and Johnny Eames, not in love simply because she is not in love). Alice Vavasor loves John Grey. She just does. It cannot be explained rationally but “is presented as a self-evident truth that seems to arise from nowhere and to lead nowhere” (68). Erotic certainty, in Trollope, is so...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 479–482.
Published: 01 November 2012
... To the Lighthouse, then, Lily Briscoe’s desire for “for-
mal purity” (165) may very well exist in a world bearing no resemblance to Kurtz’s Africa,
though both the fulfillment of that desire and the escape from the Victorian marriage plot
it facilitates are, according to this account, made possible...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 318–322.
Published: 01 August 2019
... untold story of the rise of Israeli women's prose fiction” (6)—an unhappy assertion, especially since the author herself readily acknowledges earlier attempts to relate that story by scholars such as Lily Rattok, Yael Feldman, Tova Cohen, and Wendy Zieler. Nor is the history the book puts forward—pushing...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 166–170.
Published: 01 May 2016
...,” or the role of mimesis in scenes like the resolution of To the Lighthouse , when Lily Briscoe sees Mrs. Ramsay's shadow (the phantom of her ego?) on the stairs and, having “had her vision,” completes her painting with a single, nonmimetic line ( Woolf, Lighthouse 209 ). Works Cited Lawrence D. H...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 196–209.
Published: 01 August 2014
... thing to another It also echoes the suggestion
made in To the Lighthouse by another character, Lily the painter, that perhaps there is
no great revelation, only ‘‘little daily miracles’’ (218). But the thread of the novel
cannot be made by a garland of such little miracles. Woolf deliberately breaks...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 511–516.
Published: 01 November 2009
... up to Dusty at his welcome-home
party. Meanwhile, Rose tries to tell Paul about how Dusty kissed her, but Barbara
interrupts her before she can. An annoyed Rose walks away, but Lily then advises
her to stop avoiding Babs, or risk hurting Paul. Rose confronts Barbara about their
mutual dislike...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
... reflections on social power. Henry James and Edith Wharton, whose novels of manners exerted well-noted influences on Larsen, present small talk as a language of mastery that often facilitates female intimacy. 4 In Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart hews to small talk as a mode of defensive...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 460–466.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., a torrent deep and narrow . . . now sleeping,
half-hidden, beneath the alders, and hawthorns, and wild roses, with which the banks
are so profusely and variously fringed, whilst flags, lilies, and other aquatic plants
almost cover the surface of the stream. In good truth, it is a beautiful...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... Curry , Lily . A Bohemian Tragedy . Philadelphia: Peterson, 1886 . Dartois , F. V. A. de Bournonville , L. E. Vanderburch, and C. F. J. B. Moreau de Commagny. La grisette mariée . Brussels: Chez Ode, 1829 . D’Anglemont , Alexandre Privat . La Closerie des Lilas: quadrille en...
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