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in Detachable Pockets and Letter Folds: Spatial Formalism and the Portable Interiors of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 4. Pair of lady's pockets. England, 1735–45. Cotton, linen, block printed, 16.87 × 11.37 in. (42.85 × 28.88 cm.). Museum no. 1969.3102. © Winterthur Museum
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 268–277.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of novel production, the girl propels his novels through their marriage plot but can also clog this narrative by failing to form a pair. Despite Trollope's distaste for his popular heroine, Lily Dale, this girl—who buys herself a pair of shoes rather than pairing herself in marriage—may be Trollope's most...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 23–43.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Wendy Veronica Xin Abstract This essay reads several “hidden” scenes in Jane Austen's Emma . Willfully drawing attention to stray details—an impulsive trip to London to get his hair cut, the mysterious gift of a piano, and a broken pair of spectacles—Frank Churchill uses these incidents to turn...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kristen H. Starkowski Abstract More can be done in minor character studies to account for the strong sense of being that emerges at the edges of the nineteenth-century novel. By pairing traditional readings of the minor character in narrative theory with sociologist Erving Goffman's writings...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 344–362.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to notice those metaphors, sustains the possibility of imagining and potentially creating other conceptions of history and community. In Helena María Viramontes's novel Their Dogs Came with Them , metaphors are paired with miracles, and both envision alternative worlds. For Viramontes, the neighborhood...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 372–375.
Published: 01 August 2016
... contends, in a theoretically dense pair of chapters, that the historical novel, and particularly the postcolonial historical novel, is a form of realist fiction. But Dalley does not mean realism in the conventional sense. Recognizing that postcolonial theory and criticism has been “suspicious of—when...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 502–504.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and heightens the desire for whatever the forbidden fruit might be rather than squashing it. Gilbert's book questions the deleterious nature of artistic censorship through pairing the modesty of Victorian representational standards that restrained the British novel during that era with the later Hollywood...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
... objects. In the midst of generic similitude (the triangulated pair, the rivalrous pair, the zero-sum battle over cross-generational or cross-generic affiliation), Rich and Famous iterates terms of “irreducibly incongruous repetition” in its identification of “alikeness” across the relationship of Liz...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2011
... different perspectives on this issue, as Jarrett shows. These questions
indicate how Jarrett has structured his book around a series of smart oppositions, in each
chapter pairing a literary power broker with an emerging artist who has the temerity to
depart from a platform of uplift, cosmopolitanism...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 469–471.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., a grammarian as well as a pioneering
chemist: the ideal antecedent. For all its critical skill and self-awareness, Lewis’s book is too
often populated by prolepses of itself.
Despite this blind spot, Lewis’s paired analyses are expertly fashioned and full of insight.
Priestley’s famous Experiments...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 411–433.
Published: 01 November 2001
... marry a pair of lovers-is
magnetically repellant, both absorbing and unbearable. Its relentless melodrama
forces the reader's sympathies, and yet the novel confounds such sympathies by
shifting into a preposterous alienation from that melodrama and the persons in-
volved. The radical deflection...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 263–267.
Published: 01 August 2024
... than your eyes” (38). Subsequent chapters maintain a bifocal perspective by provocatively pairing (at least) two writers. Chapter 2, “Electoral Things,” offers a fascinating history of the Victorian ballot, which reshapes our understanding of well-known novels by Dickens, Eliot, and Trollope...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2014
... romance and betrayal, miscegenation, and finally incest—in readings
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that are equally inspired and compelling. In chapter 2, for example, she pairs Pauline
Hopkins’s novel Contending Forces (1900) and William Faulkner’s Light in August (1932) in
demonstrating...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2019
... [to the treasure hunter's hotel], she and Captain Jacobi and the falcon slipped completely through our fingers” (192)—but what he means is that when the pair gave them the slip, they then lost the opportunity to trade the bird for cash: if the figure had been on the ship, Gutman would have taken it by force...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and Leslie Silko’s Almanac of the Dead . On the very last page, he is wondering what role science fiction might play in generating unimagined future forms of the Great American Novel. As such pairings highlight, a significant peculiarity of Buell as a critic is that he has...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 474–476.
Published: 01 November 2015
...—Lawrence surprisingly borrows from popular romance like Hull's runaway bestseller, The Sheik , interweaving his remarkable innovations (or his shockingly new) with her more formulaic romance. It is an unexpected pairing and a convincing one, especially in its capacity to explain the disciplinary...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 528–530.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Lordi's study elicits from that picture a series of important conceptual advances that demonstrate how black feminist critical practice can yield crucial advances applicable to the study of literature and culture as a whole. As Lordi says of one of the writer-singer pairings she considers, and following...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2011
... in the formulation of artificial intel-
ligence. Finally, I return to the real pleasure and purpose of the book: its close readings of
various books and movies. Here I highlight his gloss of James Cameron’s The Terminator,
followed by the subsequently unlikely but (again that word) delightful pairing of works...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 332–335.
Published: 01 August 2013
... be the contemporary historical message) would mean “destitution if
not death” (111). But suddenly, on the other hand, as if to save the story from the proverbial
frying pan only to dump it into the fire, the camera shifts and “the Tramp and the gamin
walk toward us. The pair is positioned so that the pair can...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., 1972 . ———. “One Pair of Eyes.” The Commonwealth Writer Overseas: Themes of Exile and Expatriation . Ed. Alastair , Niven . Brussels: Librairie M. Didier, 1976 . 23 -32. ———. Possession . New York: John Day, 1963 . ———. “Reminiscences of Village India.” John Kenneth Galbraith...
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