...ANNA MAE DUANE MARIANNE NOBLE, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 240, cloth, $55.00, paper, $18.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 An Uneasy Union: Pain, Pleasure, and Power in American...

... The Pleasure of Altruistic Punishment william flesch, Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008), pp. 264, cloth, $42, paper, $18.95. Orson Welles’s 1942 film,The Magnificent Ambersons, begins and ends (or should have...

...CATHY SHUMAN CAROLINE LESJAK, Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 288, cloth, $79.95, paper, $22.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Pleasure Works CAROLINE LEsJAK, Working Fictions: A Genealogy...

...JOHN MARX NICHOLAS DALY, Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004), pp. 170, cloth, $75.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Pleasures of Sex and Tech NICHOLAS DALY, Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1 860-2 000...

... Sterne's Phutatorius, do we represent pain and suffering in ways that make life livable, or not? What is the relationship between pleasure and happiness? Can one be happy without being virtuous? Is happiness universally attainable? If happiness depends on conditions only available to men, what are women...

... Petro's puppet show in Don Quixote demonstrate the inseparability of romance and realism; realism too depends on the pleasures of enchantment, a transformation of the real that depends on the same effects the novel critiques in its moments of demystification. If the Quixote is modern, it is not because...

... death in volume 7. Just as the accident that shatters Tristram's post chaise allows him to discover the ancient pleasures of mule travel, so the disruption of narrative is designed to awaken readers to the polymorphous pleasures of older, slower kinds of reading now facing eclipse in the age...

... that ends, in On Liberty (1859), with Mill's idea that the insidious and invasive powers of the social realm may be circumvented by taking refuge, and taking pleasure, in text-based intimacy, an intimacy that allows others' thoughts and feelings to be present as representations. For Mill, public persuasive...

... Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph , Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby , Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse . As the narration of erotic pleasure and erotic danger gets filtered through the intimacy between a female narrator...

... in the novel's own terms. Nevertheless, the author concludes, the novel opens the possibility of a temporality—a distinct imaginative formulation of “Irish time”—premised on the pleasures of idleness rather than the alienation of labor. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Adorno , Theodor...

... in their work a nonsubversive irony through free indirect discourse and the tentative deployment of conventional generic tropes. This irony allowed middlebrow authors to critique without undermining the central contention of the bildungsroman: that aesthetic pleasure might allow the individual to come to terms...

... endings function not as closure or completion but as thresholds to sustainability. This essay ends with two twentieth‐century fictions—Bessie Head's 1974 A Question of Power and Leslie Feinberg's 1993 Stone Butch Blues —that conclude by combining the pleasures of material predictability and plenty...

..., and she can be read as a special case within the underdog character type. Despite being caught in a deception plot, she surprises readers with the pleasure of a “win” by developing a specific know-how that relies on reading temporal tensions. The article uses theoretical work on temporality by Paul...

... and participants' desire to experience time as pleasurably oriented to future gratification. Ulysses 's bad jokes are symptoms of the striated and retrogressive experience of a colonized community, which is politically oriented to the past. Humor in Ulysses takes place in a nonsynchronous time (to adopt Ernst...

.... The essay suggests that this capacity to illuminate the extraordinary within the ordinary and the illusory within the real becomes one of novelistic fiction's distinctive characteristics. The experience of apprehending the real is reframed as a source of aesthetic pleasure rather than knowledge. © 2014...

...Judith Brown Frost Laura , The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents ( New York : Columbia UP : 2013 ) , pp. 304, cloth , $35.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 “[W]hy do we assume that pleasure is the goal of writing or reading?” (206), asks...

...Timothy Wientzen DUFFY ENDA , The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism ( Durham : Duke UP , 2009 ), pp. 320 , cloth, $84.95 , paper, $23.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Reviews...

... the police in different voices”—as an early working title for The Waste Land , his epic of social emptiness set largely in modern London. Though the phrase seemed bleak enough to Eliot, it describes one of the most memorable scenes of shared pleasure and care in Our Mutual Friend . “He” is Sloppy...

... the secret plotting and machinations, so that the tension of the plot cannot hinge on unrevealed secrets or hidden motives and actions. It demands, instead, that the reader's suspenseful pleasure come from experiencing, in minute detail, the execution of a clandestine plot. Second, the protagonist...

... and experiences whose visceral nature (touch, sounds, and scents) are constructed as participatory experiences” (24). The world of Adam Bede is partitioned into different spaces with the reader usually positioned on the other side of the boundary. We get pleasure from reading realist novels, Jaffe argues, when...