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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.
Published: 01 November 2002
...W. LAWRENCE HOGUE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Bell , Bernard W. , ed. Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2001 . Bradfield , Larry D. “Beyond Mimetic Exhaustion: The Reflex...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 231–238.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Carolyn Vellenga Berman What is the “world” in “world literature”? In publishing, as in literary criticism, this term often applies to the leftovers of the international literary market: works not drawn from the major national publishing markets. It signifies, in effect, “the rest of the world...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of Hardy's status as a “pastoral” author. “Pastoral” is a major concept in contemporary theory because of Michel Foucault's arguments about the emergence of this form of power as one of the basic elements of Western modernity, but it can be easy to forget how directly Foucault links pastoral power to its...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 24–42.
Published: 01 May 2014
... breeding ground for the new form of sovereignty he called “the will of the majority” or “public opinion.” This popular rule worked against the very form of self-sovereignty coveted by European liberalism and cultivated by the English novel to transform such individuals into an irresistibly powerful...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 162–179.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Ivan Kreilkamp Abstract This essay considers the three major novels George Gissing published between 1889 and 1893: The Nether World , New Grub Street , and The Odd Women . These Long Depression novels, as they could be called, demonstrate the constant pressure exerted by the need to earn money...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... had on the trajectory of the Victorian realist novel. While the 1860s and 1870s are often considered the peak of Victorian high realism, Trollope's novels (and the influence they have on other major novelists) reveal how during these decades the marriage plot and realism itself was in crisis...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Tara K. Menon Abstract This article argues that theorists of the novel have consistently overlooked direct speech even though it proliferates in realist fiction. Using the novels of Jane Austen as a case study, I show how close attention to direct speech can improve our understanding of both major...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 262–277.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Noha Radwan The early twentieth century witnessed the birth of an Egyptian novel that was an offspring of European realism and a constituent of the project of “modernizing” the country and the region. Yet by the middle of the century, the majority of Egyptian writers were veering away from realism...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 338–350.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Nancy Armstrong; Warren Montag Armstrong and Montag offer a suspicious reading of the posttheoretical attempt to confine literature to the “surface” of the singular text. They suggest that there's a reason why this effort to redefine the way we read literature coincides with a number of major...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Ian Duncan The publication of English translations of Georg Lukács's The Theory of the Novel (1971) and The Historical Novel (1962) inaugurated a major development in North American criticism of the past half century: the turn to Continental theory for an identification of the novel...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 294–319.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in Harlem and instigator of a major crusade against comic books throughout the 1950s. Ellison's published writings and those stored at the Library of Congress make apparent that issues surrounding the comic book culture of the Cold War directly link up with many of Invisible Man 's bigger themes...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 November 2012
... flat and round, major and minor, that usually frame discussions of character. © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works Cited Anderson Benedict . “Census, Map, Museum.” Imagined Communities . London : Verso , 2006 . 163 – 85 . Appadurai Arjun . “Number...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 275–295.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., a parody of a field its author abandoned, having majored in anthropology, studied with Melville Herskovits, and begun a PhD in anthropology before becoming a full-time writer. Henderson's buffoonery highlights the ordinariness of Africans he meets, precisely the effect that anthropologists sought...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that allows the white majority to give its silent approval of racism. Arguably, 1000 Coils of Fear is not just about the terror of everyday Black life but also about Black life's endurance: the narrator's ability to survive despite the ever‐present terror of white supremacy, her ability to create new life...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 263–282.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Sarah Kimmet Abstract Despite Willa Cather's claims about the incompatibility of art and economics, the majority of her novels are structured by and around economic ecosystems, both capitalist and noncapitalist. This article argues that Cather's sensitivity to the heterogeneity of the American...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 200–217.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Sarah Comyn Abstract To address in economic terms what D. A. Miller calls “Austen Style” and Anne Toner, following G. H. Lewes, identifies as Jane Austen's “economy of art,” this article uses Austen's major novels and final unfinished manuscript to examine the changing relationship between...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 427–443.
Published: 01 November 2022
...David Sergeant Abstract This essay examines the relationship between novelistic form and a historical moment shaped by new technologies in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon (2018). In both, the novel form is itself positioned as a major counterforce against...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 303–325.
Published: 01 November 2004
... Society. Dunbar , Paul Laurence . Majors and Minors . Toledo: Hadley & Hadley, 1896 . Dunbar , Paul Laurence . “The Negroes of the Tenderloin.” Columbus Dispatch [Ohio] ( December 19 , 1898 ). Martin and Hudson 40 –3. Dunbar , Paul Laurence . “Recession Never.” Toledo...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 442–446.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., he takes issue with James Tucker, author of the first full-scale study of the recently completed Dance , for failing to grasp the sheer scale of its literary ambition, the very quality that had made Powell a major European writer, one whose richly detailed “historical imagination” placed him head...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 368–371.
Published: 01 August 2016
... required to prop up that freedom without challenging its conceptual stability. Major economic figures mobilized the presumed benevolence of philanthropic gestures to secure the fictions of benevolent market forces and simultaneously to intervene in the lives of economic actors without appearing to do so...
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