...HEATHER LOVE SHARON MARCUS, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 368, cloth, $65.00, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Sister Insider SHARON MARCUS, Behuern Women...

...IVAN KREILKAMP SHARON MARCUS, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 323, $45.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Reviews Urban...

... (or from its surface) such practices have united to exclude the possibility of a reading that is “just reading”—that is, mere reading, reading stripped of every excrescence and willing to efface itself before the form and meaning that the text itself makes manifest. Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus...

... Best and Sharon Marcus called on critics to practice what they called “surface reading” ( 13 ); in the intervening years their manifesto has been cited more than sixteen hundred times. Surface reading has been welcomed, critiqued, attacked, and defended. It has rarely, however, been put into practice...

... Zone One and Ben Marcus's The Flame Alphabet , Martin retrieves the postapocalyptic novel from survivalist fantasies of self-reliance and renders it an allegory of constant work. Forging an “occupational aesthetic,” this genre portrays work not as a “mode of self-expression but as a temporal regime...

...Janice Ho Gloria Fisk , Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature ( Columbia UP , 2018 ), 280 pp., cloth, $60.00 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 Works Cited Best Stephen , and Marcus Sharon . “ Surface Reading: An Introduction .” Representations...

... (see, for example, Rita Felski's Limits of Critique ; Elizabeth Anker and Felski's Critique and Postcritique ; and the 2009 and 2016 special issues of Representations : Marcus et al., “The Way We Read Now,” and Marcus, Love, and Best, “Description across Disciplines” ), those wishing...

... between Two Walls”: The Fiction of J. G. Ballard . Liverpool : Liverpool UP , 1997 . Marcus Sharon , and Best Stephen . “ Surface Reading: An Introduction .” The Way We Read Now . Ed. Marcus Sharon and Best Stephen . Spec. issue of Representations 108 . 1 ( 2009 ): 1...

... University Press Works Cited Apter Emily Freedgood Elaine . Afterword . Marcus and Best 139 – 46 . Balasopoulos Antonis . “Ghosts of the Future: Marxism, Deconstruction, and the After-life of Utopia.” Theory and Event 12 . 3 ( 2009 ) < http://muse.jhu.edu...

... . 1680. Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier, 1999 . Haywood , Eliza . The Masqueraders; or Fatal Curiosity; Being the Secret History of a Late Amour . London: J. Roberts, 1724 . Marcus , Sharon . Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England . Princeton...

... of his objectionable protagonists 2 See, most notably, Best and Marcus. 162 NOVEL | SUMMER 2012 are indistinguishable from McEwan’s own. Dancer argues that there is nothing in McEwan’s work that suggests we should take the views of his protagonists to be those of the author...

... literary criticism that denounces such symptomatic reading, namely psychoanalytic and Marxist, for positing a reality beneath the surface of the text. As Jaffe argues, however, proponents of surface reading, such as Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best, while critiquing such readings, themselves make similar...

... (Sedgwick, Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, Elaine Freedgood, Emily Apter, Carolyn Lesjack, Rita Felski, Anne-Lise Francois, Heather Love, Caroline Levine, Timothy Bewes, Leah Price, Fredric Jameson, Kathryn Stockton, etc.). Sedgwick 's essay on paranoid and reparative reading first appears...

..., seems to take Barnes only in one direction: a reaffirmation of the power of religion. Matthew O'Connor and Robin Vote, the chief queer characters in the book, are presented as “angst-ridden” (111) and in search of religious salvation. Pinkerton contests Jane Marcus's well-known interpretation...

..., as Leckie points out, architecture was becoming recognized as a profession. A key interlocutor here is Sharon Marcus, whose Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London examines how the middle-class domestic ideal—“an Englishman's home is his castle”—is thoroughly undermined...

... to reconstruct the recent history of theory and criticism of the novel based solely on the several notable manifestos published since the turn of the century—by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, and Rita Felski—one would be prompted to assume that ideology critique had been the dominant form...

...: Providence and Realism.” The Novel, Vol. 2: Forms and Themes . Ed. Moretti Franco. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007 . 95 -127. Marcus , Sharon . Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London . Berkeley: U of California P, 1999 . Moretti , Franco . “Theory...

... . “Invalid Relations: Queer Kinship in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady.” Henry James Review 23 . 2 ( 2002 ): 196 –217. Marcus , Jane . “Laughing at Leviticus: Nightwood as Woman's Circus Epic.” Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes . Ed. Mary Lynn Broe. Carbondale: Southern...

... Elder, 1912 . Hansen , Marcus Lee , and Arthur Meier Schlesinger. The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1940 . Hardy , Thomas . Far from the Madding Crowd . Ed. Suzanne B. Falck-Yi Oxford: Oxford UP...

..., contrasting their fascination with the feminization of mass culture with male avant-gardists' invest- ments in a "great divide" between high and low culture. Building on the work of feminist scholars such as Laura Marcus, Hurrun argues that women modernists such as H.D., Dorothy Richardson...