.... Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 literary epistemology presumptions Anthony Trollope illegitimacy law and literature As evident in its title and like many other realist novels of its period, Anthony Trollope's Is He Popenjoy? ( 1877–78 ) is permeated with doubt. Even before...

... 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...

... 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...

... and/or nationalist ideologies that police 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...

..., 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...

...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...

...-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...

... 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 chastised for clumsy narrative asides, flaccid organization...

... . James , Henry . Henry James: A Life in Letters, Ed. Philip Home. New York: Viking, 1999 . James , Henry . “The Younger Generation.” The Times Literary Supplement (London) 2 April 1914 : 157 –58. Jameson , Fredric . The Political Unconscious . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981...

... 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...

... of conceptualizing corporate action, corporate agency, and corporate responsibility. In fact, it seems to me that this epistemological insight—more than the critique of liberalism in which it is framed—might be the main contribution of this study. Perversely perhaps, I do not think that this is a book about...

... it objectifies but also de-reifies, privileg- ing epistemological disorientation over closure and insisting on its own representational limits. Like Sensational Modernism, Susan Edmunds’s Grotesque Relations approaches the poli- tics of U.S. literary modernism through its estrangement of the sentimental...

... that conceptualizes the literary text as a conduit for channeling both dominant and dissenting cultural discourses, the supernatural element is said to have infiltrated the realist novel, subverting its narrative procedures, destabilizing its ideological programs, making havoc of its epistemological...

... , antitrust editorial cartoons portraying conspiring corporations as arms of an octopus—enriches the critical discussion. The difficulty, for a literary critic committed to what Lorraine Daston and Ian Hacking have called historical epistemology, lies partly with attribution, partly with methodology. Put...