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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 327–342.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and secure new forms of life, novels implement heterogeneous governmentalities. This essay examines Ishmael's testimony to the relationship between Pip and Captain Ahab to elucidate the contesting governmentalities at work in Melville's Moby-Dick . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Timothy Donahue Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 “I promise nothing complete,” says Ishmael in Moby-Dick (1851), “because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty” ( Melville 117 ). Notwithstanding this disavowal of comprehensiveness...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 384–401.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1895 . Cambridge UP, 2001 . Bellis , Peter . No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990 . Bourdieu , Pierre . Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 249–267.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Paul Hurh In recent criticism of Herman Melville's Pierre , Pierre's incestuous desire poses a challenge to the sympathetic model of democratic sociality: in transgressing filial distinctions, it erases the difference that makes sympathy possible and illustrates a limit point to the fantasy...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Peter Melville Logan LINDA M. AUSTIN, Nostalgia in Transition: 1780-1917 (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2007), pp. 248, cloth, $39.50. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Dames , Nicholas . Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 323–327.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Peter Melville Logan KAISER MATTHEW , The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2012 ), pp. 216 , cloth, $50.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press The Play of Play in Victorian Modernity
MATTHEW KAISER...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 275–295.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., a parody of a field its author abandoned, having majored in anthropology, studied with Melville Herskovits, and begun a PhD in anthropology before becoming a full-time writer. Henderson's buffoonery highlights the ordinariness of Africans he meets, precisely the effect that anthropologists sought...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
...—Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno,” and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave —revealed the incoherence of “literature” as it gradually assumed its modern form. efrank@wesleyan.edu Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 novella Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for the secretary of defense (Gelb, “Letter”). This might be one reason why Gelb, only thirty years old at the time, ended his prefatory memorandum with a reference to another text that famously defies easy classification, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : Writing history, especially where it blends...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 140–144.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Siân Silyn Roberts Paul Hurh , American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2015 ), pp. 312 , paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 As Paul Hurh points out early in American Terror , a peculiar...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 310–312.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., Dowling describes the masterful self-
presentation that has made Irving the pattern author for scholars of literary economics.
A similar set of issues is at play in his discussion of Herman Melville’s relationship
with his editor, Evert Duyckinck, although in this case the author was much less...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of her sympathies by asserting their foundation in facts” (94) end the debate that
her fictional evocation of those facts has engendered?
Weinstein is at her best when she turns to Melville, whose David Lynch–like rendition
of sentimentalism in Pierre has, at least in the last hundred years...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 47–52.
Published: 01 May 2010
... rhetorical form that links Douglass’s autobiography to the romances of
Herman Melville, the poetry of Walt Whitman, and several other instances of mid-
nineteenth-century Anglophone and Francophone American and African Ameri-
can writing. I also suggest that these seemingly incommensurate forms...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 1999
... observation on the notion that it was Defoe's envi-
sioning the adventures of Crusoe as a midrash on Jonah that enabled him to write a real-
istic novel. As Fisch observes, in Moby-Dick, Herman Melville had drawn on the book of
Jonah for Father Mapple's Sermon. In comparing Melville's use of the Jonah...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 453–456.
Published: 01 November 2013
... indigenous literacies can surge forth again from
apparent destruction. Treating tattooing in Herman Melville’s Typee and Moby-Dick, Ras-
mussen’s final chapter moves beyond early American moments and into more recognizably
belletristic works. That Melville was interested in an expansive concept...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 321–334.
Published: 01 November 2021
... communication.” Donahue returns to the Quixote to show precisely how Melville adapted Cervantes at once to resolve the problem of totality and to place it forever beyond the novel's power of representation. Reading Don Quixote through Moby-Dick and Moby-Dick through the lens of twentieth-century...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 190–192.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of the sentimental novel of slavery, Melville is the
first to leave behnd the "nature of racial difference" in order to attend to the "nature of
racial prejudice" (198).
For all their strengths, however, these last two sections also occasion, in this reader at
least, a fair degree of discomfort...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
... for a revolutionary expression of Black sociality, even though, as the reader learns at the end of the text, the signs had been there all along. Melville's deferral of an explanation finds its counterpart in Captain Amasa Delano's deferred understanding of the situation on board the San Dominick , which occurs after...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 13–18.
Published: 01 May 2012
... they are thinking and imagine instead that they are in this place
that he is thinking about.” They may say instead, “Once more. Say you are in the
country” (Melville 2). Eight words, not a single direct reference to mental state, yet
at least three embedded mental states. Paraphrase it, getting rid...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 November 2012
... studies—William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad,
Herman Melville. Cohen’s Novel and the Sea moves beyond single authors and away from
seeing the ocean as metaphor for alienation, death, or the sublime of Samuel Coleridge’s
Rime of the Ancient Mariner. For Cohen the sea is both a geographical...
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