... and secure new forms of life, novels implement heterogeneous governmentalities. This essay examines Ishmael's testimony to the relationship between Pip and Captain Ahab to elucidate the contesting governmentalities at work in Melville's Moby-Dick . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press...

... differences is central to the moral economy of mid-nineteenth-century realism. To live inside a liberal dispensation that takes its realist fictions seriously means recognizing the work that characters like Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations (and persons like ourselves) put into stories about our own...

... of individuals all packed into the same physical space” and that produces the panicked sense that “[w]e don’t know who is around us” (232–33). Pip is “exposed to hundreds of chances,” 3 Dickens’s novel Hard Times satirizes the statistical movement and the idea that problems of soci- ety could...

... Fredric . The Antinomies of Realism . New York : Verso , 2013 . Jones Lloyd . Mister Pip . New York : Random House , 2006 . Jordan John O. “ Global Dickens .” Literature Compass 6 . 6 ( 2009 ): 1211 – 23 . Kant Immanuel . Critique of Judgment . Trans. Pluhar...

... that typifies the plot of Great Expectations (1860-61)' reminding us that while Pip plays at work with Joe and idles in London with Herbert Pocket, an imperial economy is built off- stage by the slave labor of convicts like Magwitch, labor that both supports and under- mines Pip's construction...

... head" tobacco; the horror in question is Aboriginal genocide in Victorian Australia. When the convict Abel Magwitch, now a wealthy sheep farmer, returns from New South Wales to examine the gentleman he has "made" of Pip, we read re- peatedly that he fills his pipe with, and smokes, "Negro...

... hereditary goodness (earlier embodied in the unsulliable Oliver) to the accumulations of “interaction, encounters, and experience” that sculpt both Magwitch’s features and Pip’s self (59). If Dickens crucially anticipates the modernist turn, so, too, in McCrea’s view, does Conan Doyle. In many...

... Steer for lacking historical rigor (28), I found his attention to the specificities of textual influence to be enlightening and convincing. The most brilliant chapter, “The Transportable Pip: Liberal Character, Territory and the Settled Subject,” links Victorian analysis of land use to the bildungsroman...

... minor characters to modern economic constraints. Writing about Great Expectations , for example, he notes that Dickens's weak protagonist, Pip, is “overwhelmed on all sides by various kinds of minor characters” (35). Indeed, the terrifyingly distorted exteriority of these figures like Orlick disrupts...

... is sharply contrasted to the “times out of number” that Mr. Harmon has patiently recounted the episode to Bella, who sees this event as the golden link in her great chain of being. Would it be stretching the point here to make a comparison not only to the golden link in Pip’s chain, his visit...

... be true? What is Heath- cliff's inconsolable grief and rage about, if not his inability either to resolve or to destroy JOHN KUCICH I AMNESIAC FICTION his vivid memories of Cathy? What is Pip's chronic sense of guilt if not the sign of persistent memories...

..., while a novel like Great Expectations (1861) covers a great deal of time—the growth of Pip from a very young child to mature adulthood—much of his development is carried out through what Gérard Genette calls narrative ellipses: those moments “where a nonexistent section of narrative corresponds...

... those entitled to continued life, development, and full-fledged narrative treatment” (77). Kreilkamp's analysis of Orlick's threats and near murder of Pip—threatening to annihilate his body so that no one will know the story of what happened to him—centers upon the loss this would entail of the animal...

... that "mainstream femi- Nnity was not secretly lesbian, but openiy homoerotic" (3).In a paired chapter on "The Female Accessory in Great Expectutiotls," Marcus argues that Pip learns how to desire Estella through observing her dynamics with Miss Havisham-and that heterosermal desire in the novel...

..., realism is also deflationary and antiheroic, asserting its protagonists' smallness in the wide world even as it keeps them in focus: thus the fate of Emma Bovary's fantasies of living in a novel, or what she believes a novel to be (pity she is actually in one), or Pip's youthful delusion that he...

..., while the Dutch remain content with the sensory lowlands” (47). In Modern Paint- ers, John Ruskin disparaged Dutch painters for squandering their attention on base realia: “[A] Dutchman can be just as solemnly and entirely contemplative of a lemon pip and a cheese paring, as an Italian...

... is an event, but so is Pip’s increasing debt—the scratching of an itch but also waiting for rivets, a fall off a ladder and also a wast- ing disease. Narrative moves alternately between punctual events (a laugh, a slap, a glance, a storm) and broader, slower events: a feud, a quest, the decay...

... . Holmes explicitly names, as forerunners of his investigative approach, Winwood Reade in The Sign of Four ( Doyle 1: 137 ), Georges Cuvier in “The Five Orange Pips” (1: 225), and Alphonse Bertillon in “The Naval Treaty” (1: 460). Historicizing critics have seen these in-text citations as merely the tip...

... they earn their living is very much in the background. Pip, for instance, “goes into business” in Egypt; we are not told what business, and Pip’s working life occu- pies about half a page of the book. Clennam has been in some unspecified business in China, and later goes into another barely...

... Eyre to Esther Summerson and Pip all begin as disposable before becoming indispensable, working out their destinies amid scores of others who do not make it into the category of lives worth protecting. For every Oliver rescued from the slums, there remains a poor orphan Dick who blesses...