... . Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984 . Bowen , Merlin . “Tactics of Indirection in Melville’s The Confidence-Man.” Studies in the Novel 1.4 ( 1969 ): 401 –20. Brodtkorb , Paul , Jr . “The Confidence-Man: The Con Man as Hero.” Studies in the Novel 1.4 ( 1969 ): 421 –35...

...Jean-Christophe Cloutier This article considers the impact of the comic book on Ralph Ellison's concept of the novel form, tracing the comic book allusions scattered within Invisible Man as well as Ellison's work and association with Dr. Fredric Wertham, founder of the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic...

...J. Bradford Campbell This essay argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) provides promising ground and a certain imperative to investigate the underexamined intersections between literature and the history of psychiatry. Especially where African American literature is concerned, there has...

...Benjamin Lewis Robinson Abstract J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man considers “care” in contemporary liberal-capitalist societies, including the ostensibly frivolous care of and care for literature. In contrast to grander affects and occupations, care often seems to be “just care,” as if it fails to live up...

...FRANK CHRISTIANSON DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. HENKLE, The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 208, cloth, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Poverty and the Man DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. I...

...Jonathan Elmer In 1826, Mary Shelley published The Last Man and James Fenimore Cooper published The Last of the Mohicans . Cooper's novel uses the themes of mourning and extinction as a way of imagining the sequential unfolding in space-time that twenty years later would be labeled Manifest Destiny...

... as the ideal man is the novel's measure of Elizabeth's gradually acquired self-knowledge. “She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her,” Austen writes. “It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his...

... and Philosophy and Other Essays . Trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review P, 1971 . 85 –126. Bhabha , Homi K. “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.” The Location of Culture . New York: Routledge, 1994 . 85 –92. Broege , Valerie . “The Journey Toward...

... “succeeded beyond his highest expectations,” Lee's father died “a rich man” (9). Crucially, though, when Lee inherits this estate, he does not take over his father's farming business but rather hands over management of the business to an overseer. Doing so was essential for anyone hoping to be recognized...

... the rhetorical purpose of justifying the book's argument that "one can no longer presume the existence of a real hu- man or a human-like narrator standing above and beyond the discourse" (134). As a result, and despite Richardson's suggestion that the relation of his argument to mimetic theories...

..., it looked like the man was floating up through the sky” (325). The novel concludes with these images; the reader is apparently expected to flip through them to obtain the visual effect. This brief moment in the novel has elicited a wide range of critical verdicts, from “moving and cathartic” (Bird 564...

...Jacob Jewusiak This article argues that old men and aging raised a central problem for Charles Dickens's literary project: the novel's difficulty of representing temporal continuity over long spans of time. For the old man, the meaningful plots of the nineteenth century—such as the bildungsroman...

... and the temporality of jazz or, more specifically, between prolepsis and parabasis. My essay looks at Paul de Man's and Georg Lukács's assertions that the novel is an essentially proleptic form and argues that the specific form of prolepsis it brings with it from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is out...

... with the political work that literature can do. The importance of post-9/11 literature, however, depends on its ability to rewrite itself in the coordinate system of geopolitical affairs. This essay reads Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Ian McEwan's Saturday as symptomatic of the ambivalent literary reaction...

..., James's portrait of a “man of imagination” whose education consists in imagining the experiences of others is not a deviation from the tradition of the bildungsroman but a realization of one of the genre's originary possibilities. Copyright © 2020 John Attridge 2020 Henry James J. W. Goethe...

...Torleif Persson Abstract This article begins by noting that recent debates about the relevance of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to contemporary American culture enact an opposition between historicism (the idea that the novel is a Jim Crow artifact) and universalism (the idea that it transcends...

... as a Young Man , where Stephen Dedalus's low vision draws his attention to sensations that repeatedly distract from his bildungsroman plot. The low-vision characters of Ulysses then offer a conclusion to this strategy in the way they altogether abandon progress to make a narrative of wandering sensations...

... dramatized in novels like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) and Richard Wright's The Outsider (1953)—stresses the (long-denied) depth and complexity of black subjectivity, the former eschews considerations of black particularity for a punitive, state-sponsored approach to racial injustice. Copyright ©...

... imagined around figures such as Dr. O'Connor whose desire, as he says, to “boil some good man's potatoes and toss up a child … every nine months” reinforces his queer identity and annexes the importance of disability in many of the novel's characters. Modernist cultural representations of the pregnant male...