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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 355–359.
Published: 01 August 2009
...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...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 353–376.
Published: 01 November 2000
... –123. de Man , Paul . “Wordsworth and the Victorians.” The Rhetoric of Romanticism . 83 –92. Derrida , Jacques . Of Grammatology . Trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1976 . Doane , Mary Ann . “Veiling Over Desire: Close-ups of the Woman.” Femmes...
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in Detachable Pockets and Letter Folds: Spatial Formalism and the Portable Interiors of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 6. Letter from Mary Linley to Elizabeth Ann Sheridan, undated, ca. 1785–87 ( Linley ). Photographs by the author. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 3. Speech patterns of Austen's heroines and Mary Crawford.
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 143–145.
Published: 01 May 1999
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2021
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2021
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 431–436.
Published: 01 November 2009
... event in the evolutionary history of this theme was the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and one text that translated this lesson of the Mutiny most powerfully for popular thinking was Mary Elizabeth Braddon's famous sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret (1861-62). © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 460–466.
Published: 01 November 2009
... yields truths inaccessible to wider gazes. The essay focuses on Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789) and Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village (1824-32). It argues that we can detect the trace of a practice of close observation and a set of descriptive modes premised upon...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 497–503.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph , Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby , Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse . As the narration of erotic pleasure and erotic danger gets filtered through the intimacy between a female narrator...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 210–223.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Elaine Freedgood Does the novelist, like the philosopher, need her “poor”? In this essay, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton is the test case for the idea that narrators (and, by extension, novelists) need their characters to be poor—intellectually, physically, spiritually—that narrators might remain...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 64–83.
Published: 01 May 2019
... text and audience that characterizes a mass reading public. Yet in Eliot this turn toward an expansive, inclusive form of address is also linked to an increasingly rarefied style. The essay concludes by examining how the aesthetically rarefied Henry James and the populist best seller Marie Corelli...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 240–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of an “empathic realism,” which can be defined both against what Meghan Marie Hammond has recently called “empathic modernism” and in contradistinction to nineteenth-century “sympathetic realism.” Poised between pre- and postwar outlooks, his work provides valuable insights on the changing contours of empathetic...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 219–239.
Published: 01 August 2019
...) and Mary Poovey (on the accuracy effect), this essay attends to the dandy accountant of Heart of Darkness , the accretive narrative structure of Nostromo , and Shreve's recasting of Sutpen's life as a debtor's farce in Absalom, Absalom! If Conrad bluntly equates accounting with lying, Faulkner reveals...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 213–234.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., they achieve fulfillment not in individualist plots but in group activities and brimful houses. The most influential Victorian family chronicler was Charlotte Mary Yonge. Yonge's episodic form was taken up by Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney. These writers’ chronicles...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 389–409.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Christopher McGowan Abstract This article considers Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love as modernist reworkings of the industrial novels of the mid‐nineteenth century, such as Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charles Dickens's Hard Times. Conrad and Lawrence, the article...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Alexandra Neel This article examines the spaces still life in Frankenstein , arguing that Mary Shelley draws on this rich visual tradition from its humblest manifestations in the painting of food to its most conceptual in its explorations of light, human perception, and death. Following Norman...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 373–379.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Mary A. Favret Did Jane Austen have a period? Did she have periods? This essay surveys the particularly gendered politics that attempt to situate Austen and her work within a fixed and dateable period. To counter that impulse, it introduces a different temporal understanding of the period...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Mary Helen McMurran Nearly a quarter century after Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities , the novel seems to be less a national subject than a flexible citizen. But before Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel , most novel histories took the mobility of prose fictions for granted; writers had long...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 235–253.
Published: 01 November 2005
...MARY HONG Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Austen , Jane . Emma . New York: Penguin, 1985 . Barthes , Roland . “The Reality Effect...
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