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...MARY ESTEVE DAVID A. ZIMMERMAN, Panic! Markets, Crises & Crowds in American Fiction (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2006), pp. 312, cloth, $59.95, paper, $22.50. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Panic Novels DAVID A. ZIMMERMAN, panic! Markets...

... and anxious concern that Japanese ambassadors of culture not be offended. The crucial intervention was made by G. K. Chesterton, who argued that the opera did not contain “a single joke against Japan” in a moment of just such panic: the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of the opera for the duration of Prince...

... of profit (Benjamin, “Concept” 395). Which is not to say, in any sense, that the speculative time addressed by this study lacks events—crises, panics, crowds, cyclical recurrences, and intimations of apocalypse abound, to each of which Crosthwaite brings insight. To index some of the events...

...- poral tension. In this case, Zemka provides an intricate account of the moment in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim by showing how Jim and Marlow suffer from panic at different levels. The panic experienced by Jim, which takes the form of his paralysis and abandonment of the ship, results from...

...--of "white panic" and white male blindness-and in her description of the academic version of such fear-based perceptions that result in the subjugation and surrogation of the visible "to nominally 'higher' ways of knowing" (111); that is, the visible of southern women's writ- ing has been subjugated...

... of Conspiracy (2000), dealt with the prominence of conspiracy theorists in postmodern fiction, and it points to the “agency panic” surrounding the conspiracy theorist's paranoid and hysterical attitude toward a complex social totality. The Covert Sphere , in shifting toward a set of texts that take a more...

... of a Psychotic Disorder’’ (xxxiv). 450 NOVEL FALL 2014 of forbidden knowledge and trying to hang it on the tree’’ (Mitchell, ‘‘Conversa- tion In this striking metaphor of innocence recaptured, Mitchell grants Quasar the solution to agency panic: the ability to imagine the vastly complex...

... essay in the volume is the fullest and most intelligent investigation of the homoerotic element in Portrait I've seen and fully explores what Valente calls the "ambivalence at the heart of Stephen's desire" (59). Valente argues convincingly that Stephen has episodes of "homosexual panic...

... of the Network Society . 2nd ed. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2010 . Certeau Michel de . The Practice of Everyday Life . Trans. Rendall Steven . Berkeley : U of California P , 1984 . Chew Richard S. “Certain Victims of an International Contagion: The Panic of 1797...

... embody. The novel, as the shadow or the wraith of the epic, echoes a vitalist past. To conclude, Franco Moretti takes the novel back to Lukácsian bad infinity and thereby generates statistical panic. By promoting a crypto-Darwinian rise and fall of genres, Moretti mitigates...

... modernism was “subtly but extensively shaped” by his exposure to patois (122). One of the structuring claims of the chapter is that the “degenerative” effect of time upon language is a major source of existential panic in In Search of Lost Time . If mutable Albertine represents the changeability...

.... For instance, Haggerty diagnoses "a kind of SCOTT J. JUENGEL I AN ODD SEXUAL MOOD heterosexual panic" in Matthew Lewis's The Monk which stems from Ambrosio's unbear- able homoerotic desires: in an effort to prove his "sexual norrnality," Ambrosio directs his libidinal...

..., and lightweight mashups” (4), he celebrates electronic media. Steven Johnson’s analysis of the impact of gaming on “addicted”—or should we say extremely patient?— players counterintuitively insists that Everything Bad Is Good for You. And Steven Pinker dismisses our moral panic altogether, noting...

... become assimilated to everyday speech (“panic but they also became an almost essential feature of novel plots themselves: the question was not whether they would appear, but what form they would take. Novels were interesting not because they contained specula- tors or market-crisis plots but because...

... to the issue of “what counts as a political action and who counts as a political actor” (3). Second, she needs to close the loop between historical reality and literary representation by repositioning the financial panic of 1837 (briefly discussed in the introduction) as the ultimate allegory for the formation...

... a sophisticated critical discussion of how narrative focalization manages to make complex points about “empathy and race,” the novel’s hero, David Lurie, inspires only “waves of angry judgment.” Ver- meule confesses to feeling a mounting sense of panic and bewilderment. This is simply not how we...

... that is indistinguishable in many ways from a full-fledged homosexual panic. Insisting, "I don't want to go to bed. I want to get away," the narrator attempts to escape from the man who evokes this desire. Directed at Obert, in other words, "I want to get away" becomes a way of saying "I want to get away from you...

... authors—Freud and Barnes—figured that futurity. For Freud, Schreber’s para- noid delusion that he must become a woman and become impregnated by God is a form of homosexual panic, the result of oedipal anxieties regarding Schreber’s father, who was a doctor, and his own doctor, Flechsig (this staging...

... with Oscar Wilde, disavowed in a panic after Wilde’s disgrace and conviction, and contests that “Dracula explores Stoker’s fear and anxiety as a closeted homosexual man during Oscar Wilde’s trial” (381). But if Dracula is indeed written from the closet (and both Schaffer and Christopher Craft...

... disorders, of panics, and of all the different kinds of enthusiasm” (195–6), above all “the infec- tious tendency of religious enthusiasm” (203) and the sublime energy of crowds (209). The counterrevolutionary context accounts not only for Stewart’s reversion from Smith to Hume but for the Burkean...