... . Barnard , Rita . The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995 . Barnard , Rita . “The Storyteller, the Novelist, and the Advice Columnist: Narrative and Mass Culture in Miss Lonelyhearts...

... . Introduction. Villette . By Charlotte Brontë. New York: Penguin, 1979 . 7 –51. Haunting Pictures, Missing Letters: Visual Displacement and Narrative Elision in Villette JESSICA BRENT A "picture" held us captive. And we could not get outside...

... literature and economics in the early decades of the nineteenth century. How, more specifically, does her fiction participate in the critical debates emerging between David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus about the purpose and disciplinary style of political economy? What do Miss Bates's verbal surplus and Diana...

...Christian Lewis Abstract In Miss Mackenzie , Anthony Trollope attempted to write a marriage plot without love or romance but admitted that he was unable to do so. This essay argues that Trollope's formal experiment developing the “anti-romantic” marriage plot did not end with Miss Mackenzie...

..., the steamship, the Crystal Palace or the telegraph—things that simultaneously cut up and connect the modern world. Discontinuous continuity is the formal logic of the serialized Victorian novel; if we miss this, we overlook a key aspect of how novels help produce nations. This particular essay begins...

... 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...

... or later makes a picture of its fulfillment” and turns the phrase toward a discussion of “kernel narrative.” Questions of boredom and the temporality of reading are then posed by way of Soap Opera Diges t , the weekly guide to events that the television viewer may have missed. Through a re-engagement...

... and deficiency, of something missing or of something running down. There is also a phenomenon that occurs when types suddenly disclose themselves in all their fullness; such an event can even bring the narrative to a halt. This essay focuses on the question of how types appear, or, in other words...

... who guided the careers of authors like Angela Davis, Bambara, and Jones, Morrison herself might well be classified as the best thing to happen to the genre in the past fifty years, Novel , too, completely missed the black feminist literary revolution Morrison anchored in the 1970s and 1980s and has...

... is to ignore (or forget) differences, to generalize, to abstract," a task made impossible by the world of the "particulars" which Funes inhabits (137). The opposition between particularity and abstraction in Borges's postmodern tale takes to the extreme, in its literalization, the cliche about missing...

... uncontrollably. Almost immediately I guessed she'd at East found Ulrich. Or what remained of him- he'd been missing a few weeks by then. Well, the door between the bedroom and the living room was closed, and as I say, the radio was up loud, so it would have been perfectly conceivable 1...

... striking once you realize to which original scenes they correspond. For instance, when Elizabeth Bennet comes to visit Pemberley on the invitation of Mr. Darcy and his sister and encounters Miss Bingley, Miss Bingley welcomes her by observing: “I understand, Miss Bennet, that the militia have left...

... , Franco . Atlas of the European Novel 1800–1900 . London: Verso, 1998 . Oliphant , Margaret . “Miss Austen and Miss Mitford.” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine March 1870 : 294 –305. Rpt. in Southam, ed. 215–25. Pfau , Thomas . Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic...

... . 1862 : 14 . Rye , Maria . “Female Middle-Class Emigration.” Times 21 June 1862 : 12 . Rye , Maria . “Miss Rye’s Emigrants.” Times 29 May 1863 : 5 . Slemon , Stephen . “Unsettling the Empire: Resistance Theory for the Second World.” World Literature Written...

... to let working-class heroines share her own activist profile. In Helen Fleetwood: A Tale of the Factories (1841), she martyrs her female protagonist rather than make her a spokesperson for oppressed workers. Stories about women's political careers may have gone missing in mainstream fiction...

... in Bleak House wherein a few of the novel's primary characters, Esther, Ada, and Richard, leave the scene and, just for a moment, all readerly attention is on “little” Miss Flite—the eccentric, elderly bird lover who lives atop Krook's Rag and Bottle Shop—who is the only one “still there” as the chapter...

... relatively impecunious, Gaskell shows that the effort, time, and ingenuity that go into domestic labor are essential for the survival of the material home. Thus when Miss Jenkyns buys a new rug, the narrator and Miss Matty spend the best part of their day putting pieces of newspaper around to protect...

... eyebrows, and confusing and antagonizing his audience. Predictably, Stevens soon achieves all these things. Momentarily stalled in the town of Moscornbe on h~squest to re-hire Miss Kenton (now Mrs. Benn) as housekeeper for Darlington Hall, he finds himself caught in a spur-of-the- moment...

... Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the Highlands of Scotland . 2 vols . London: R. Blamire, 1789 . Gretna Green or the Elopement of Miss D— with a Gallant Son of Mars . London: Thomas Kelly, 1823 . Hutchinson , Peter Orlando . Chronicles of Gretna Green . 2 vols . London: R...