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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 355–359.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... Shelley's novel, much more forthrightly political than Cooper's, is not about sequence and unfolding but about withdrawal and implosion. By adopting a different approach to the problems of empire, race, and historical melancholy than Cooper does, Shelley is forced, as it were, into greater formal innovation...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2007
... . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997 . Melancholy, Race, and Sovereign
Exemption in Early American Fiction
JONATHAN ELMER
In his wide-ranging and moving study, Specters of the Atlanfic: Firznnce Capital,
Slavery, adthe Philosoplzy of Histovy, Ian Baucom argues that romanticism consti...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 May 2007
...STUART BURROWS MITCHELL BREITWEISER, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature (Stanford UP, 2007), pp. 336, cloth, $60.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Looking Back
hVTCHELL BREITWEISER, National Melancholy...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
illustrates the thrust of Kucich’s argument. While Kucich reads Rudyard Kipling, Joseph
Conrad, and Olive Schreiner—the usual colonial suspects, one might say—in fairly pre
dictable ways (once he has established the direction of his argument about sadomasoch
ism), it is in the chapter “Melancholy Magic...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 May 2019
... from the post–Civil Rights period,” Levy-Hussen uses a model of “melancholy,” developed through psychoanalytic and affect theory, to show that whereas masochism brings past trauma into view in historical novels, “depression” brings “contemporary grief into view” in nonhistorical novels (96). Turning...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Things: Transmediality and the Two Museums of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk .” Paper presented at “The Literary in Life,” University of Tampere , Finland , 13 – 15 June 2018 . Konuk Kader . “ Istanbul on Fire: End-of-Empire Melancholy in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul .” Germanic Review 86 . 4...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
... that realist narratives are forced to draw on melodramatic resources in the end (witness The Mill on the Floss and Daniel Deronda ), he drowns the récit in a metaphorical flood. There seems, though, to be more than just a play of homologies at work here, for a certain melancholy affect surrounds...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 November 2014
...: Essays in Honour of Maximillian E. Novak . Ed. Maniquis Robert M. Fisher Carl . Toronto : U of Toronto P , 2009 . 32 – 54 . Livingston Donald W. Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1998 . Locke John...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and the Good Thing.” Hakutani and Butler 123 –37. Campbell , Brad . “The Making of ‘American’: Race and Nation in Neurasthenic Discourse.” History of Psychiatry 18 . 2 ( 2007 ): 157 –78. Cheng , Anne Anlin . The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief . Oxford...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., who had shuttled from streets to theaters to
apartments, into the elegiac melancholy of an enclosed and isolated narrator, whose con-
tact with the urban crowd never claimed to transcend his own omniscient subjectivity"
(144). In "interiorization," public life itself becomes ideologically...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 August 2009
... in Recent
North American Fiction: Neoliberalism
and Narratives of Extreme Oppression 349
jonathan elmer “Vaulted Over by the Present”:
Melancholy and Sovereignty...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 August 2015
... Left-wing melancholy, writes Benjamin, “takes as much pride in the traces of former spiritual goods as the bourgeois does in his material goods”: “from the beginning all it has in mind is to enjoy itself in a negativistic quiet” ( 29–30 ). For a pertinent recent application of the concept, see Joseph...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 327–342.
Published: 01 November 2012
... For an elaboration of the significance ofMoby-Dick to Cold War Americanization strategies, see
Donald E. Pease, “Moby-Dick and the Cold War,” and William V. Spanos (2–36).
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contract; the other is informed by the testamentary language of melancholy.6 The
novel dramatizes...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 436–438.
Published: 01 November 2006
...
dynamism and dissent that the bourgeois revolution sought to foreclose. In Horace
Walpole's The Castle ofotranto, the gothic novel quite literally begns with an outlandish
death in the place of a wedding, and ends with a marriage sufficient only to "indulge the
melancholy" that had taken...
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2005
... chapter argues that Malthus takes us from the "dismal science to a dismal cul-
ture," "in which the elements of the Malthusian condition-the melancholy of procreative
desire, its quasi-sacred status, the suffering it exacts, and the self-consciousness and guilt it
compels-were the miseries...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 212–215.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., to cite just one striking example,
Marianne Dashwoods melancholy (which might have been included in the counter-
examples listed above) stands revealed as a failure to practice the forms of modem nostal-
gia that Austen's novels elsewhere teach. There are stunning discussions of the function...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 325–328.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of this melancholy is the inevitable disillusionment that follows upon
the need for confirmation from an Other. A telling quotation comes from Joan Copjec: "If you
are looking for confirmation of the truth of your being or the clarity of your vision, you are
on your own; the gaze of the Other is not confirmjng...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 August 2020
... into air, and the instrument . . . sounded in low symphony . . . it produced a tone much more full and melodious than that of a guitar, and still more melancholy and soft than the lute. They continued to listen, but the sounds returned no more. . . . After a long pause, ‘It is now about eighteen years...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 336–339.
Published: 01 August 2013
... constitute
the principal means by which authors from Charles Dickens to George Eliot imagine and
represent both individual and collective feeling in the age of the machine. In Hard Times, for
example, both the rote action of Coketown’s engines, famously figured as “melancholy mad
elephants...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 319–322.
Published: 01 August 2013
... that the
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novel had to displace to make room for bourgeois isolation—Kurnick brings out the aggres-
sive protest lurking within Thackeray’s melancholy, the social anger underlying psychic
depression.
Taking apparent...
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