... typically suspend the epistemic grounding for moral relations but thereby produce a sharp disjunction between their theories of perception and of relation, creating a productive difficulty. Furthermore, Yousef argues, by relying on the assumption that sympathy must take shape as mutuality, reciprocity...

...Anna Gibson This essay demonstrates how Charles Dickens used the form of serial fiction to experiment with a uniquely Victorian idea of life as a dynamic network of interactions. Reading Our Mutual Friend alongside nineteenth-century physiological and evolutionary writing, I show how Dickens shaped...

... describing a conventionally realist totality of social relations among individuals, such texts as Bleak House, Little Dorrit , and Our Mutual Friend imagine the human aggregate more paradoxically as a mass that exceeds any conceivable total. In emplotting the systematic failure of society to accommodate...

... of the Jew into a conventional marriage plot reflects a problem in Trollope's construction of authorship, a problem that inheres in how literary commercialism and literary professionalism might represent mutually exclusive value postulates. Max Weber's distinction between formal rationality and substantive...

... regenerating landscape. Though Eliot's novel famously ends with a tragic flood, Maggie and Phillip Wakem's mid-novel meetings in the Red Deeps entwine feminist and environmental possibility into a narrative arc that looks beyond the spatiotemporal limits of its immediate ending. The result is a mutually open...

... obscured out of context. One of the ironies of Our Mutual Friend is that while Dickens dreamed about modern appropriation, the most prominent literary borrowings of his novel treat its imagery of refashioning as a source of horror. T. S. Eliot famously used a line from Our Mutual Friend —“He do...

... of particularity that matter. Instead, this lit- erature asserts that a primary experience of mutual alterity defines each human’s relationship to all other humans. Despite this seeming emphasis on individual experience, however, these writers should not be mistaken for generic liberal indi- vidualists...

... (and we) should also conceive this antagonism as mutual and perhaps, in other cases (though not Melville’s), productive. As such, it offers a useful transition to the second section of the book, which describes the much less hostile partnerships between Rebecca Harding Davis and L. Clarke Davis...

...) is, on this account, underwritten by the “surprisingly simple concepts of continuity and discontinu- ity” (8). Race and the Modernist Imagination subsequently insists on what it identifies as the “deep mutuality” and “conceptual affinities” between modernity and race that underscore the extent to which “both...

... engaging either of these critical para- digms. Instead, he invokes-and this is part of the power and interest of hs analysis-the Lacanian objef a as his royal metaphor for the disruption of "the mutual intelligibility of text and context," which in "its baffling tempord logic contributes...

...John Plotz © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Dickens Charles . Our Mutual Friend . Introduction by Gaughan Richard . New York : Random House , 2002 . Rushdie Salman . Midnight's Children . New York : Penguin , 1991...

..., of our own discipline. Two tams organize the conceptual wealth of ths book. "Bioeconomics," familiar to many from a now classic essay on Our Mutual Friend that forms part of a chapter of this volume, "refers to political economy's concentration on the interconnections among popula- tions...

... up to Dusty at his welcome-home party. Meanwhile, Rose tries to tell Paul about how Dusty kissed her, but Barbara interrupts her before she can. An annoyed Rose walks away, but Lily then advises her to stop avoiding Babs, or risk hurting Paul. Rose confronts Barbara about their mutual dislike...

..., is another way of saying mutual recognition, or what might also be called, following Louis Althusser, interpellation. We as readers respond to and recognize the text that seems to recognize us because it offers familiar surroundings: surroundings on which, as Balzac puts it, our sentiments are already...

... to consumers of these products" (21). Chapter 4, "'In the Way of School': Dickens's Our Mutual Friend," argues that Our Mutual Friend replaces both a domestic and a market economy with a pedagogical one that paradoxically constructs reified knowledge that nonetheless resists commodification. Because...

... Gibson's understanding of the “strange vitality” that clings to characters in Our Mutual Friend ( 65 ), such an orientation to the social world is one that “replaces interiority with interaction” or, in these instances, with momentary retreats from the demands associated with social interaction...

...[ing] . . . the ways in which the emotional investments of Victorian and contemporary stock-market subjects and the scenarios that compel them remain unchanged” as for understanding how “the stock market and the Victorian novel function as mutually constructing, mutually reinforcing discourses...

... : Blackwell , 1985 . 122 – 45 . “Climates for All Nations.” Punch; or, the London Charivari 19 Oct. 1850 : 229 . Dickens Charles . Bleak House . 1852–53 . New York : Penguin , 2003 . ———. Our Mutual Friend . 1864–65 . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1998 . Eagleton Terry...

... chapter, "Folklore as Performance and Communion," Billingslea- Brown illustrates how the performative aspect intrinsic to the collective experience of folk culture through art enables communal healing, and positions art as community property that is mutually constructed by the artists and the viewer...

... becomes a problem when the melancholic and the magical become mutually con­ taminating and there is no controlling center to keep them distinct. The economy of the double effectively distributes the two phases of masochistic fantasy to characters that mirror each other in “mutually destructive...