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...” or (from Hardt and Negri's perspective) the mass of a “multitude” that provides the secret (if excluded) ground to this new form of sovereignty. Where earlier gothic novelists like Brown and Bird critique “contractual logic” by pushing it to “its breaking point [and reinventing] the very categories...

...—as a crucial marker of human character, Burney insists on filling her novels with a succession of unexpected events and a multitude of characters surprised by their own actions. By refusing to treat accident as a mistake to be improved upon—in the realm of either characterological conduct or authorial craft...

...Emily Steinlight This article demonstrates both the formal logic and the political stakes of Dickens's refusal to solve the problem his narratives create: the condition of a vast multitude that the impersonal narrator of Bleak House only half-ironically terms “supernumeraries.” Applied...

...—shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, massacres, hurricanes—as a way to imagine the emergent novel's rapprochement with a multitude exposed to time. What is the relationship between the novel's prescriptive everydayness and intense concern with singular experiences, and the mass historicity of disaster...

...-Century Literature . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005 . Brown , Nicholas , and Imre Szeman. “What is the Multitude? Questions for Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.” Cultural Studies 19 ( 2005 ): 372 –87. Couto , Mia . Cada homem é uma raça . Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1998...

...] the universe in its tracks” (255). Predictably, the revolution fails, “nature” having “bred” the residents of Chelsea Marina, and the wider class of which they form a part, as “docile, virtuous and civic-minded” (292). Despite some attempts at relating it to contemporary concepts of the multitude (see, e.g...

... avowed desire has been not to sustain them’’ (qtd. in Mullen 44). Mullen points out that both multitude theory and reparative reading aim to revalue the affective labor that capitalism exploits but either cannot or will not measure. In this sense, both models bear a resemblance to camp, which derives...

... the past fifteen years, a range of thinkers have developed accounts of collective life, beyond the nation, by focusing on precisely how collectivity is configured. One of the most influential of these is Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's description of the multitude as an emerging collective that eludes...

...." Torgovnick's point of departure for "the war complex" is Freud's observation about the first World War, that "a multitude of simultaneous deaths appears to us exceedingly terri- ble." Where the disabling effects of this consciousness served as a standard theme of mod- ernist literature during the first...

... . Hardt , Michael , and Antonio Negri. Empire . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000 . Hardt , Michael , and Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire . New York: Penguin, 2004 . Ishiguro , Kazuo . Never Let Me Go . New York: Knopf, 2005 . Ishiguro , Kazuo...

... does (“he” in the following quotation is Danilo, one of Pynchon’s multitude of intelligent, sympathetic, deeply flawed, and moribund multinational pre–World War I spies, evaluating Cyprian, another one of that multitude who, unlike Danilo, is one of the novel’s major characters): “He also noted...

... of an intense multitude; but all round him, on and on, even to the limits of the horizon hidden by the enormous piles of bricks, he felt the mass of mankind mighty in its numbers. They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly...

... of the autonomous individual or ‘‘homo economicus whose very indi- viduality made him or her representative of a multitude of others. On the one hand, we see the fostering of a private and egocentric mental life and on the other, the fantastic textual connection with innumerable similar lives. Watt cites Samuel...

... of affiliation, one designated by the term ‘‘kinsman’’ and another by the term ‘‘multitude both of which recur throughout Hawthorne’s story. According to the one system of affili- ation, the meaning of the name Molineux absolutely contradicts the meaning that the same name acquires in the other system, so...

... a brothel in Sentimental Education , and “the sight of so many women, all at his disposal,” ends up (Flaubert qtd. in Moretti 31 ), as Moretti puts it, “paralys[ing] Frederic's capacity for decision” ( 31 ) and effects a “sever[ing]” of the enjoyment of having multitudes of options before oneself “from...

... of the canon than for students encountering this multitude of mod- ernisms for the first time. Caserio's study participates in the valuable project of considering "modernisms" as a plural phenomenon, and if his readings are uneven, they are likely to inspire debate, which would seem to be his...

... rejects aesthetic experience” (15). Nonetheless, she parts ways with Robbins over his assessment that modernism’s inaccessibility consigns it to “critical remoteness from the habits of the benumbed multitude” (15). She defends aesthetic diffi- culty as modernism’s way of attempting to render...

.... In the process, he submits, this writing serves to destabilize the formation of national and racial identities by rejecting the inevitability of a single linear narrative of national progress and insisting on a multitude of possible futures. 522 novel | fall 2011 In “Rip Van Winkle...

....” Velvet Light Trap 54 ( 2004 ): 18 – 31 . Rosner Victoria . Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life . New York : Columbia UP , 2005 . Virno Paolo . A Grammar of the Multitude . Trans. Cascaito James Bertoletti Isabella Casson Andrea . Los Angeles...

... , composed as Joyce's vision deteriorated a decade later, is his ultimate act of capturing and preserving the eye's encounter with reality, a transaction conducted via the gazes of Stephen and Bloom and through a multitude of refractory lenses.” The book modestly announces itself as an intervention in a now...