...George Boulukos The rise of the middle class in eighteenth-century England has long been called into question in British historiography. This essay, following the lead of Dror Wahrman's Imagining the Middle Class , reads the significance of claims linking the novel and the middle class rather than...

... - Race and Racial Community through the Lens of Middle-Class Desire(s) NICOLE KING Consistently attended to by sociologists, political scientists and historians, black US intra-racial class difference (and conflict) has perhaps enjoyed its most com- plex ongoing...

... to literary forms like the early novel, it instead identifies a strain of network thinking in the arts characteristic of the British eighteenth century. At this junction between network‐style thinking and the rise of complex forms of affiliation in the emerging middle classes, art forms appear...

... to “find your voice” through the stylistic development of what I am calling “vernacular anglophone realism.” The turn to the non-anglophone vernacular continues the postwar tradition of ethnic ventriloquism for a mainly bourgeois Western audience but also supplements a new non-Western, middle-class...

... the subjectivity of those laboring in fields or battened under hatches making a middle passage toward indentureship? This essay focuses on one aspect of novelistic citation of a transnational archive, using Jamaican author Patricia Powell's 1998 novel, The Pagoda , as an example. I suggest that the novel's...

... to organize the shower of atoms in the form of fiction with a beginning, a middle, and an end? Flaubert and Conrad had sorted out the problem by making a compromise between the truth of the interpenetration of sensory microevents and the “lie” of the plot. Through examples borrowed from Mrs. Dalloway...

..., that process; while a marriage plot, it mourns the sacrifices accompanying such a course rather than reinforcing marriage as a route to liberal notions of civic “happiness.” In addition, by revisiting the Middle Passage, it exposes the liaisons between a particular vision of democracy and the birth of finance...

... characters—a cosmopolitan readership who are comparative in mindset and globally aware. Both realist novel and Crimean War journalism make traumatized working-class figures into symbols of a heroic nationhood, even while ultimately remaining distanced from these figures by addressing middle-class readers...

... make familiar assumptions about the novel (that it thematizes the mundane world; that its rise is associated with middle-class literacy and, increasingly, with mass literacy), which we want not so much to question as to explore in greater depth and in their relation to each other. Thus we pose a set...

...Noha Radwan The early twentieth century witnessed the birth of an Egyptian novel that was an offspring of European realism and a constituent of the project of “modernizing” the country and the region. Yet by the middle of the century, the majority of Egyptian writers were veering away from realism...

... of these texts, which signal a shift from the national to the transnational, from postmodernism to dense realism, and from the “middling” protagonist to marginal, subaltern protagonists. Working through close readings of two representative novels, Peter Kimani's Dance of the Jakaranda (2017) and Esi Edugyan's...

... and the Novel: Women and Fiction, 1880–1920 . Totowa: Barnes and Noble, 1979 . Wahrman , Dror . Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c. 1789–1840 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995 . Walkowitz , Judith . City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual...

... to those in the middle class, she expresses a problem central to the mid-Victorian effort at bourgeois self- fashioning. The many would-be do-gooders who populate that novel are clearly dependent upon the poor to help orient them socially. Esther and, through her, Dickens embody...

... and Politics, 1832–1867 . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1977 . Childers , Joseph W. Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995 . Davidoff , Leonore , and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle...

... of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850 . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . FMCES records. Ms. Letter Book 1, 1862–1877, Letter Book 2 (numbered 3), 1877–1882. Fawcett Library, City of London Polytechnic. Gilbert , Sandra M. , and Susan Gubar. “A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane’s Progress...

... regeneration becomes a possibility for environment and characters alike. It is also a space in which—as we will see—the middle of Maggie's narrative converges with her own peculiar habit of reading fiction. The Red Deeps are thus a formal cue for reading The Mill on the Floss , accentuating a narrative middle...

... into the middle class, are simultaneously narrated and effaced. His account of the popularity of Amos and Andy, a show that “everybody loved” despite “what people say today,” proves instructive on this point: What was special to us about Amos and Andy was that their world was all colored, just like...

... ): 58 – 75 . Cohen Shana . Searching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Morocco . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . Dalley Hamish . “ Postcolonialism and the Historical Novel: Epistemologies of Contemporary Realism .” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary...

... invokes and neutralizes the conventions of political melodrama, it defamiliarizes standard elements of domestic fiction as well. These include its courtship plot, along with thematic and formal conventions embedding such fiction in middle-class ideology: its idealization of companionate marriage...

... and self-aggrandizement—the behavioral attributes by which the British middle class came to identify itself—informs Kucich’s understanding of British class ideology as driving the conditions that shaped the dynamics of imperial power. For instance, he sees in sado­ masochistic economy a unique social...