...Lisa O'Connell My paper re-historicizes the eighteenth-century marriage plot by shifting attention away from both the history of literary genres and the modes of social history that have generally informed accounts of the rise of the novel. Drawing instead on recent historiography of the period's...

...: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom . 2 vols. London: Murray, 1871 . The Marriage Plot in Theory Kathy Alexis Psomiades The title of this essay refers to the fact that Victorian anthropological theory has a marriage plot...

...Barry McCrea This article proposes a new account of sexuality and narrative in Bram Stoker's Dracula . It suggests that the two plot strands of the novel—the petit bourgeois narrative of Jonathan and Mina's courtship and the gothic story of Jonathan's imprisonment by Count Dracula—are two different...

...Daniel A. Novak GARCHA AMANPAL , From Sketch to Novel: The Development of Victorian Fiction ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2009 ), pp. 294 , cloth, $95.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Not Reading for the Plot amanpal garcha...

... and gustatory appetite, between the marriage plot that gives the nineteenth-century novelistic social its privileged form and what I call “the food plot.” And it is Jane Austen, I argue, who made this dichotomy central to the way we read. Situating Austen's fiction in relation to Malthusian political economy...

... then with African Americans. By examining a critically overlooked function of the Albany house—its spatial representation of the novel's plot—this article shows how narratives of Black people escaping slavery along with late nineteenth‐century definitions of vulgarity centrally define Isabel's pursuit of freedom...

...Audrey Jaffe WAGNER TAMARA , Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre ( Columbus : Ohio State UP , 2010 ), pp. 232 , cloth, $44.95 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Plotting Speculation...

...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...

... the main plot. This combination of narrative genres, along with the turn toward interiority in Persiles , provides new models for the canonical novel that in fact find their sources in older forms. It is at this point in the novel's history, however, that we come to the heart of Pavel's argument...

... Austen's “middle counties of England” have to do with Tolkien 's hobbit-populated Middle Earth? One answer to that question lies in money and in what, or who, Austen thought it could buy you. Beyond admiring Austen's fiscal nous, Piketty argues that her plots turn on the indispensable role of inheritance...

... alternatives. In Hogg's fiction, divergence in belief does not solely or inevitably occur at the level of speech itself, but may also be found at the level of incident, plot, character, or motive—in the question of what makes a given occurrence into a “story” at all. Hogg strives for a sort of epistemological...

... a future, we need to ask whether it has a past. I think Bruno Latour would say that it does not; instead, what it has are an infinite number of plausible futures, each of which would require going back and retelling, rethink- ing, otherwise modifying many plausible plots so as to put together...

... that the time for a Dickensian accounting for individual lives at the level of traditional narrative had passed. Yet he lacked certainty about the kind of macroscopic, generalizable plot that one might put in its place. 10 Accordingly, Hardy turned his attention to the gap that looms between the world's...

... the narrator's attention, and the town's gossip, away from his secret engagement to the impoverished Jane Fairfax. In these oft-ignored and easily forgotten scenes, Frank performs an astonishing ontological trespass: flaunting his plot only to better conceal it, the literary character seems nearly possessed...