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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 290–296.
Published: 01 August 2009
... human right: the right to mobility. It starts by explaining how this right is articulated in the early modern period at the international geopolitical scale as the freedom of navigation. It then links the freedom of the seas to the empowered agency of Crusoe and fellow mariners across the history...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 72–77.
Published: 01 May 2010
... with the larger conversation about the novel's relationship to mobility and temporality and then uses Dickens's work as an editor, writer, and national architect to argue that he uses the seemingly fixed idea of “home”—a core theme of all Victorian novels—to create both the novel and the nation as structures...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 531–537.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Mary Helen McMurran Nearly a quarter century after Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities , the novel seems to be less a national subject than a flexible citizen. But before Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel , most novel histories took the mobility of prose fictions for granted; writers had long...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 8–18.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Kinohi Nishikawa Abstract The Black Lives Matter movement experienced a groundswell of support in the summer of 2020. The scale of mobilization was staggering, with marches and rallies held in every corner of the country. Since then, support for the movement has dropped, and some see...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Madhumita Lahiri Abstract With the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, extensive restrictions on travel and migration effectively destroyed the global mobility of persons, while widespread supply chain disruptions meant that commodities were no longer as globally mobile. Drawing on this 2020 context...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 387–392.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... In both cases, the tic or repeated, jarring detail reorganizes the realist space momentarily in the mode of perversity, reopening its narrative frame to discordant echoes from the literary past (satire) and future (modernism). The symptom is thus mobilized in its specificity to refuse the etiological...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 304–310.
Published: 01 August 2009
... at the close of the nineteenth century via corsetless ingenues somnambulating alone in public after dark. These popular fictions converge with material culture in the dress reforms of fashion designers to advance women's increased mobility and sexual license—but at a cost. Together they connect women...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 108–131.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., but the suppression or erasure in the novel of this formative moment signals, in my view, a retreat from the anticolonial ethos that this conflict mobilized globally. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Stanford...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 176–196.
Published: 01 August 2017
... between groups but also with a structuring historical perspective oriented to the subsequent rise of a public transport system that is fundamentally designed to ignore the individual psychology and individual purposes of its passengers and instead to array interchangeably the mobility of their bodies...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... melodrama, epic, and, in this case, romance) that the realist tradition had ostensibly superseded. Understanding how the formal expansiveness of literary genres can be mobilized strategically, it concludes, affords a critical perspective for analyzing the Anthropocene—a concept whose narrative...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 208–228.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Janice Ho This essay situates Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses within the historical context of a politics of extremity that was mobilized by ethnic migrants in postwar Britain in their struggles against racism. Such a politics—characterized by the discourses of war, militancy, rioting, and heat...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of corollary questions: How do the forms of attention and imagining that are fostered by the extended form of the novel correspond to the attention and temporality of everyday life? How are the materiality and mobility of the book (typically a small and portable object) bound up with the kinds of object-worlds...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 333–337.
Published: 01 November 2007
...EVAN WATKINS BRUCE ROBBINS, Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 328, cloth, $35.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Moving On Up
BRUCE ROBBINS, Upward Mobility...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to colonies, where it authorizes a white, male mobility at the expense of enslaved Africans and dispossessed Native Americans, thus undergirding the nation's imperialist ambition. At all times, police respond to the law's anxiety that “unknown persons out of place might pose unknowable threat to settled...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 380–384.
Published: 01 August 2016
... is the fluidity of its “heterogeneous . . . populations” rather than any particular national atrocities or anxieties. “Under unforeseen conditions of social, geographic, and economic mobility, it fell to U.S. fiction writers to imagine ways of making this ambiguous and globally dispersed social body cohere...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 371–374.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Lawrence K. Stanley KEITH GANDAL, The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the Fiction of Mobilization (New York: Oxford UP, 2008), pp. 271, cloth, $55.00. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Hemingway , Ernest . “Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 289–302.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Review 15 Oct . 1995 . Robbins , Bruce . Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007 . Shaffer , Brian W. Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro . Columbus: U of South Carolina P, 1998 . Stanton , Katherine...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 531–533.
Published: 01 November 2016
... point is Rushdie's Midnight's Children [1981]). If at one level the stereotype preserves cultural knowledge, at another it can be mobilized into “new equations,” Chakravorty suggests, for the control and management of difference. When literary writers mobilize the stereotype, they often question...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of
physiognomic visual strategies lay in the logic—if not the practice—of transposing moral
character and social origin to a fixed, permanent, involuntary facial personality so as to
limit the abuses of social mobility and dissimulation. These issues became particularly
pressing in the controversy...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to contend with competing, or at least imperfectly aligned, drives—the lama's quest for the river, the Great Game as orchestrated by Creighton, and his own desire for freedom and aimless mobility. Though Kim never reaches it, Central Asia has much to do with the framing and potential resolution...
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