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Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 143–164.
Published: 01 August 2020
... dialectic between a narrative and a scenic impulse omits something crucial if we are to understand European realist narrative, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century. This article reassesses Jameson's dialectical view of realism in light of the speculative turn in the history...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Alex Moskowitz Abstract This article investigates a central problem for literary aesthetics in the nineteenth century: why literature won't directly represent Black revolution. It argues that in Blake; or, The Huts of America , Martin Delany thinks through the structural impossibility...
View articletitled, The Racial Economy of Perception: Reading Black Sociality in the <span class="search-highlight">Nineteenth</span> <span class="search-highlight">Century</span>
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Temporality and Form in Nineteenth-Century America
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 521–524.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Edward Cahill PRATT LLOYD , Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century ( Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2010 ), pp. 248 , cloth, $55.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Temporality and Form in Nineteenth...
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Photographic Fictions: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Novel Form
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Daniel A. Novak “Photographic Fictions” argues that the discussion of fragmentation and totality, parts and wholes that photography provoked in the work of nineteenth-century writers and photographers is important for how we think of the novel form in the age of photography. Victorian writers...
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Natural History and the Novel: Dilatoriness and Length and the Nineteenth-Century Novel of Everyday Life
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 460–466.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Brooks' textual “motor,” the driving energies of plot are taken as fundamental—to such an extent that a radically nondescriptive subgenre, the detective novel, is understood as a useful model for the novel per se. Such a focus is inevitably distorting—for the nineteenth-century British novel of everyday...
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The Nineteenth-Century Crowd
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 May 2001
...JOHN KUCICH JOHN PLOTZ, The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 263 + xi, cloth, $48.00, paper, $18.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 The Nineteenth-Century Crowd
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The Color of His Hair: Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraits of the Historical Jesus
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Jefferson J. A. Gatrall Throughout the nineteenth century, dozens of authors across Europe and the United States—including Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, and Rainer Maria Rilke—gave fictional form to the figure of Jesus...
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Expansion, Interruption, Autoethnography: Toward Disorienting Fiction, Part 2
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 261–267.
Published: 01 August 2009
...James Buzard The thesis of my 2005 book Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels is gestured at by the three words of this essay's main title: nineteenth-century Britain's imperial expansion is the ultimate context in which to make sense of the nineteenth...
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Walter Scott's Loose Leaves: Books, Scraps, and Dispersive Reading
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 480–500.
Published: 01 November 2022
... previously appeared as the works of sundry authorial eidolons. For a nineteenth‐century culture of collected editions, this act of rebinding represented a foundational moment. But Scott's novels also figured prominently within a robust tradition of commonplacing and scrapbooking in which books were...
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Liberalism and Inner Life: The Curious Cases of Mansfield Park and Villette
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 317–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Abby Scribner Abstract This article takes up two famously disliked nineteenth-century novels—Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Charlotte Brontë's Villette —and argues that they are dissatisfying to readers because their protagonists fail to cohere as liberal subjects around a legible interior realm...
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“Too Domestic to Admit of Calculation”: Jane Austen and Narrative Economics
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 200–217.
Published: 01 August 2022
... 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...
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Conrad, Lawrence, and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 389–409.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Christopher McGowan Abstract This article considers Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love as modernist reworkings of the industrial novels of the mid‐nineteenth century, such as Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charles Dickens's Hard Times. Conrad and Lawrence, the article...
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The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Modernist Haunting
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 268–291.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Stephen Ross This article contends that contemporary modernist studies' break with the previous model of High Modernism uncannily repeated modernism's own declared break with the nineteenth century. A key marker of this repetition is the flurry of publications addressing modernism's relationship...
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The Nothing in the Novel: Jane Austen and the Food Plot
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 368–388.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and gustatory appetite, between the marriage plot that gives the nineteenth-century novelistic social its privileged form and what I call “the food plot.” And it is Jane Austen, I argue, who made this dichotomy central to the way we read. Situating Austen's fiction in relation to Malthusian political economy...
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The Reality Effect and the Real Effects of Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done ?
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 422–442.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sonia A. Werner While it is common for scholars to concede that realism is nearly impossible to define, the story of realism's emergence as a specific literary movement in the nineteenth century is rarely disputed. Literary critics and historians alike frequently identify the emergence...
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Toy Stories
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 35–55.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Vanessa Smith “Toy Stories” takes Maggie Tulliver's “grinding and beating” of her broken doll in The Mill on the Floss as a starting point for thinking about manifestations of childish distress, rage, and shame in the nineteenth-century novel. Using Melanie Klein's play theories, it argues...
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The Aesthetics of Hunger: Knut Hamsun, Modernism, and Starvation's Global Frame
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2015
... conditions of Hamsun's Norway, which was one of Europe's least developed nations in the nineteenth century. Where critics have tended to treat the hunger that drives Hamsun's novel in terms of the desires and affects of metropolitan modernity, this article instead reads starvation as a transnational...
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The Potter's Thumb/The Writer's Hand: Manual Production and Victorian Colonial Narratives
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Aviva Briefel This essay argues that by the second half of the nineteenth century, British artists and writers succumbed to “colonial-hand envy,” marked by a desire to claim the authenticity of South Asian manual productions. This condition flourished in a climate that mourned the figurative...
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Do Novels Think Electric Thoughts?
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 116–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Clifford Siskin The primary analytic tools of modern literary criticism were forged in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries out of print culture's effort to consolidate its hold on society by making more out of its objects. The further we have burrowed in—sacralizing only a few texts...
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Plagiarizing Sir Walter Scott: The Afterlife of Kenilworth in Victorian Quebec
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 354–381.
Published: 01 November 2011
... examined Le manoir mystérieux in the wider context of novelistic production in Quebec in the late nineteenth century. Drawing from recent scholarship in the fields of book history and print culture, this article proposes that a close examination of Le manoir mystérieux' s contents, together...
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