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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 28–55.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop.” Trans. Michael Hollington . Dickens Quarterly 6 ( 1989 ): 95 –101. . Rpt. as Andrews , Malcolm . “Dickens, Samuel Rogers, and The Old Curiosity Shop.” Notes and Queries 18 ( 1971 ): 410 –11. Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 May 2012
... . Teaching Old Readers New Tricks:
Jack London’s Interspecies Ethics
CHRISTINE MAHADY
Jack London’s canine-centered novels firmly nudged turn-of-the-century readers
away from familiar ways of relating to fictional animals. Eschewing “the archaic
method” (in the words of his...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 216–231.
Published: 01 August 2001
...JACQUELINE M. LABBE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Works Cited Barbauld , Anna Letitia . “Introduction to The Old Manor House.” The British Novelists, with an Essay and Prefaces Biographical and Critical . Vols. 36–37 . London: Rivington, 1810 . i –vii. Bartolomeo...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 240–262.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Aviva Briefel Abstract This article argues that Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop demonstrates the ways in which labor exploitation can occur in situations of apparent generosity, freedom, or even kindness. One of the most insidious aspects of Little Nell's victimization by labor...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 193–213.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Jacob Jewusiak This article argues that old men and aging raised a central problem for Charles Dickens's literary project: the novel's difficulty of representing temporal continuity over long spans of time. For the old man, the meaningful plots of the nineteenth century—such as the bildungsroman...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 466–469.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Trysh Travis COLLINS JIM , Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture ( Durham : Duke UP , 2010 ), pp. 300 , cloth, $84.95 , paper, $23.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Meet the New Boss/Same as the Old...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Melissa Hardie Across three women's films, the status of the literary novel in the midst of changing media environments is melodramatically plotted through the figure of “old acquaintance.” Vincent Sherman's 1943 Old Acquaintance pits the meager output of celebrated writer Katherine “Kit” Marlowe...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Christine Okoth Abstract Through readings of two novels that feature hydroelectric facilities—Peter Abrahams's A Wreath for Udomo and Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift —this article demonstrates how each text grapples in very different ways with the tensions between extractive infrastructures...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... anxiety about determinism and, paradoxically, anxiety about lack of clear identities, a tug of war that is of course intrinsic to American ethnic literature. Eugenides could be said to recoup the old American immigrant novel promising self-making within the political context of a city of race riots...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 410–416.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., as I show through an analysis of Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield , Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford , and Charles Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop , reading them on their own terms allows us to perceive an alternative view of family and home to that produced by the novel in its hegemonic form. © 2009...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
... lead us to consider more seriously the implications of a novel in which the most memorable characters, arguably, walk on four legs. What does it mean to read Far from the Madding Crowd nonanthropocentrically, to take the measure of its creatureliness? I do so here by returning to the old question...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 196–209.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., To the Lighthouse , and The Waves , the essay analyzes the various ways in which Woolf tries to dismiss this compromise. It also focuses on the political implication of the problem: modern fiction opposes the democracy of life to the old hierarchy of action, but it does so at the cost of sacrificing the social...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2014
... considers Zhou's fiction theory as a part of the transition from the old democratic revolution led by the Chinese bourgeoisie to the new democratic cultural initiative carried out by the enlightened intelligentsia and progressive working people. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
... becomes revolutionary in this way, suggesting that dictators share a common fate: they will be deposed or, eventually, die of old age. However, like a horde of the living dead, others like them will return. The article concludes with analysis of the apparent pessimism of this point and the global...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 324–338.
Published: 01 August 2022
... novels of Balzac or Eugène Sue—Perec's experiment shows the social space of the city in the process of becoming only one site among others in the postwar project of urbanization. On this basis, Perec's novella marks the 1970s as an important transition point in the history of the city novel: the old city...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 504–518.
Published: 01 November 2016
... qualities of the media system, in what sense do paper books remain active components of this system and in what sense do they appear within it as old media, spoken for by the electronically mediated texts that represent them? Or have novels become comments on this in-between state of being no longer quite...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 254–273.
Published: 01 August 2020
... use the novel to deploy a critique redolent of anarcho-feminist politics? A summary of Age 's plot will make evident some of the points of comparison Nowlin has in mind. Newland Archer, the perfect specimen of Old New York—that is, the 1870s elites who lived along Fifth Avenue from Washington...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 292–295.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Joel Simundich Jacob Jewusiak , Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2020 ), pp. 202 , cloth, $99.99 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Age is really just a number. It is a mere marker...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 330–350.
Published: 01 November 2003
... in the
dining room, and everywhere, "many an old god peeped from a new niche"
(194). The carefully placed goods even link events from the more distant past
with recent ones; Tibby's old bassinet is, significantly, in the room where Helen
stayed during her brief liaison with Paul Wilcox. A newly created...
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