...John Richetti Bender John , Ends of Enlightenment . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford UP , 2012 ), pp. 312 , paper, $25.95 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Mastering the Disciplines JOHN BENDER, Ends of Enlightenment (Stanford, CA...

... to the other—indeed, how each can turn into the other. In recycling anachronistic forms like romance, novels do not simply supersede them but rather offer tools of a literacy adequate to a history much longer and more active than historicism tends to allow. The puzzles of reading staged by the scene of Master...

...; his mode of address to his former “master”; his attention to the collapse of the line separating public from private life in the South—all of these contributed to Douglass's refiguring of the relationship between his authorial and oratorical personae and his audiences. Douglass does not simply exploit...

... detained by his master while resident in England. In its popular reception, the Somerset ruling initiated a series of both literary and legal precursors for Coetzee's narrator in Waiting for the Barbarians , a figure we can call the “chastened magistrate,” also representing the establishment under British...

...Kalyan Nadiminti Abstract “The Global Program Era” traces the rise of the international writer from the global South in the North American master of fine arts (MFA) program and the resulting effects on the contemporary global anglophone novel. Extrapolating from Mark McGurl's The Program Era (2009...

...J. S. Bolin Abstract The end of a novel is the site of particular epistemic privilege. If the form is governed by a biographical master plot, the “meaning of the life,” as Benjamin has it, is “revealed only in [the] death” that is the plot's narrative limit—and beyond this limit “the novelist...

... reduction of character to idiomatic stereotypes with the author as master ventriloquist. More importantly, it led the way to the reinvention of the novel's acoustics. If traditionally subjugated by the domineering visual aesthetics of formal realism, which reduced voice to a rescindable soundtrack chained...

..., the form that had mastered the containment of violence was the historical novel, and Macdermots is clearly attempting to come to terms with the inheritance of Sir Walter Scott. It is equally preoccupied with the tradition of the Irish national tale, in particular with the models of national restoration...

...WILFRED D. SAMUELS JARED GARDNER, Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), pp. 238, cloth, $45.00, paper, $16.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 A Tale of Two Nations, Or, Disingenuousness...

..., a story of domestication in which the civilized girl teaches her barbarized master, through the gracious contact of her words and hands, to refrain from touch in favor of words.1 By recording a progress from bodily to ver- bal communication, the novel narrates the transit from authoritarian barbarity...

... the subtle weave of in- fluenceand "counter-signings," gradually extracting the metaphoric terms and mapping the conceptual terrain through which one can read the relations between these two figures. Roughley treats a string of varying modes that emerge: the father-son (master-student)rela- tion so...

... . New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1992 . Fisher , Philip . Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1985 . Fleischner , Jennifer . Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women’s Slave Narratives . New York: New York UP, 1996 . Gilbert...

... of masterful, encompassing not only the ninety volumes of his collected works but also unpublished archival materials she was able to inspect. So too is her command of and judicious reliance on the salient scholarship, deftly and decorously relegated to extensive endnotes. Her general explanatory technique...

... . Coetzee , J.M. Foe . Johannesburg: Ravan P, 1986 . Coetzee , J.M. Interview with David Attwell. Dagens Nyheter . 7 Dec . 2003 . Coetzee , J.M. In the Heart of the Country. Johannesburg: Ravan P, 1978 . Coetzee , J.M. The Master of Petersburg . London: Secker, 1994...

... q~~lite"(86; his italics). Mimicry urges the colonized to imitate the colonizer, yet the outcome of such imitation is never an exact copy, because mimicry can easily turn to mockery or menace, enabling the colonized to subvert the master narra- tive. Using the tools of minstrelsy, Tom, Sam...

... and the Difference It Makes NANCY L. PAXTON, Writing Under fhe Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1835-1947 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999), pp. 288, cloth, $52.00, paper, $23.00. Rape is the master trope of colonial discourse-and intercourse. The pun...

..., unknowing is a state known to most of us; however free or self-responsible we might feel as moral agents, we often act with little or no certainty of the outcnme. Countering persistent stereotypes of modernism as elitist, male-centered, dl-knowing and all-mastering, Weinstein thus insists...

....” New Left Review ( Jan.—Feb. 2000 ). 54 -68. Naipaul , V. S. A House for Mr. Biswas . New York: Vintage, 1961 . Schwarz , Roberto . A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Machado de Assis . Trans. John Gledson. Durham: Duke UP, 2001 . Skinner , C. “Transitional...

... . Oxford : Clarendon , 1965 . ———. Little Dorrit . New York : Penguin , 2003 . ———. Martin Chuzzlewit . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2009 . ———. Master Humphrey's Clock . Vol. 1 . London : Chapman and Hall , 1840 . ———. The Old Curiosity Shop . New York : Penguin , 2000...

... prove more than a master of metafiction” (181). This critical attitude, Naiman continues, derives from the fear that “metafiction is not a suf- ficient engine to drive an author’s canonization,” in consequence of which “scholars have urged us to move beyond that initial phase and accept Nabokov...