... the Boundaries” ). 2 The epistemology of realism—and the difficulties that it raises—seems to become ever more central to the study of the novel: “[T]he novel raises more sharply than any other literary form . . . the problem of correspondence between the literary work and the reality which it imitates...

... traveler. More than rhetorically similar, both texts, I argue, dramatize epistemological crises that precipitate a renewed sense of life's contingency. Both Defoe and Hume employ Puritan spiritual autobiography, and in each case this literary mode's questionable referential status reproduces...

...Thom Dancer This essay argues that a critique of epistemological immodesty is at the center of Ian McEwan's literary project. His fiction dramatizes the dangerous and tragic consequences of granting one's own interpretative frameworks a certainty and authority that they do not warrant. Enduring...

...John Plotz This article recognizes the accomplishment of the editors of the Stirling/South Carolina Edition of James Hogg and reflects on the long literary eclipse that followed Hogg's death in 1835. Hogg was both the inventor and prime nineteenth-century practitioner of what could be called...

...Gayle Rogers This essay analyzes the infamously strange dialogue of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), in which characters speak English through a modified version of Spanish syntax, false cognates, and peculiar diction. It argues that Hemingway's creation of an Anglo-Spanish literary dialect...

... social distinctions. 1 In this way, reading for an abstract kind of literary multiplicity—the epistemological and narratological endorsement of the fluid many over the demarcated one—has in many ways come to signify the progressive cosmopolitan bona fides of literary critics. This essay intends...

... method is merely a narrative effect, nowhere carried out in the narrative structure: scientific (or other) contemporary discourse is not the “real” of literary form. By examining the retrospective closure and focalization of the Holmes formula, especially in A Study in Scarlet , I propose a different...

.... Bureau of Labor regarding his study “Negro Labor in Lowndes County.” This study demonstrates the ways in which Du Bois's literary embrace of a spatial epistemology more compatible with Black life confounded the archival logic of the state. That will prepare us to read Silver Fleece in terms of the ways...

..., the identification of the modern novel with forms of narrative ‘‘impersonality’’ denies the expressive capacities of the novel’s language, as ‘‘impersonality’’ implies that literary language bears no necessary link to its motivating conditions. In what follows, I will demonstrate that the epistemological crisis...

... of theory. It was thus that paranoia became once again the domain of political ideologues and their fervent supporters rather than a viable mode of literary critical engagement. Against recent postcritical dismissals of critique and other suspicious hermeneutics, the article argues that paranoia offers one...

... to treat explicitly fictional events as if they are real” (5). Much like literary naturalists from Émile Zola to Richard Wright who wrote novels with scientific aspirations, the “empiricist epistemology” of preparedness allows “fictional disasters” to “function as models of what could or what is likely...

...Charlotte Sussman This essay argues that the problem of witnessing in the Romantic-era novel is caught up with the problem of moral epistemology and that both are inflected by temporality. Focusing on Charles Maturin's 1820 gothic Melmoth the Wanderer , this essay argues that, like many...

... while also figuring rhythm as a liminal state that enables the constitution and unraveling of the subject. Lee’s readings authoritatively demonstrate how literary texts register the epistemologi- cal work that Kandice Chuh describes as shifting the focus of critical inquiry from ques- tioning...

... and the Character of Prose is to recover the nineteenth century's “epistemology of character.” One way of understanding what Farina means by the “epistemology of character” is to contrast it with E. M. Forster's post-Victorian discussion of “characters” in Aspects of the Novel . There, Forster privileges “round...

... in the “extra-literary concerns” shaping this “generic change” ( Pyrhönen 121 ), notably the “black-out” and the London Blitz, and this accounts for its significance to the idea of a plural modernism defined not only by ideology, epistemology, and aesthetics but also by contexts ( Whitworth 275, 279 ). 1...

...-things like cash registers, amusement park rides, Kodak cameras, and children's toys-pressured literary inscription, and how literary texts can be considered "repositor[ies] of disparate and fragmentary, unevenly developed, even contradictory images of the material everyday" that become...

...). It is thus all the more noteworthy that the allegedly irresolvable antinomies of realism rest on a number of underelaborated propositions. Jameson never makes clear, for example, how works of literary fiction manage to tender such stifling epistemological claims. He simply assumes that the same authors...

... The Rise of the Novel , scholarship on the early novel continues to pose the kinds of epistemological and sociological questions that Watt brought to the historical study of fiction. So accepted, and dissected, is the belief in the related rise of the novel and the emergence of the modern individual...

... to Dorothea von Miicke's Virtue and the Veil oflllusion, have traced the centrality of contemporary epistemological theories and related educational philosophies and institutional practices to eighteenth- and nineteenth- century novels. It is little over a decade since both Armstrong's and Bender's...

..., the flea market, the crime scene, and the archive (11). While the book is organized neatly by chapter into “Psychologies,” “Economies,” “Epistemologies,” and “Ecologies,” Falkoff's method nevertheless reflects her subject, staying attuned to “anachronic presences and unlikely resonances” between things...