... of melodramatic elements do? They cannot be aligned with a single motive or effect, but because Gaskell so explicitly invokes the genre of political melodrama, relocating its conventions to the domestic plot helps politicize the private sphere. Jameson may be wishful in claiming that melodrama always resonates...

...NICHOLAS BROWN Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Works Cited Brown , Nicholas , “bossapósbossa, Or, Postmodernism as Semiperipheral Symptom.” The New Centennial Review 3.2 ( 2003 ): 117 –59. Brown , Nicholas . Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth...

...Carrol Clarkson MARAIS MIKE , Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee ( Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2009 ), pp. 249 , cloth, $72.00 . HAYES PATRICK , J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett ( Oxford : Oxford UP...

... of constraining narrative frames that have limited the reception of African novels written by women. A transformative intervention in African literary historiography, this trailblazing study simultaneously attends to the political dimension of novels, which Andrade illuminates in the tension between feminist...

... , Karen . Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body . Berkeley: U of California P, 1993 . Sand , George . Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1853. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ed. Elizabeth Ammons. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980 . 3 –6. “Slavery.” Rev...

...Daylanne K. English GOYAL YOGITA , Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 ), pp. 288 , cloth, $85.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Diaspora and the Politics of Genre yogita goyal, Romance...

... and visual culture in the contemporary period. In this book on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century romance, Davis takes up some of the most intriguing questions about desire and politics in the age of globalization. Building upon new theories of intimacy, Rethinking the Romance Genre advocates...

... . The Politics of Visuality kendall johnson, Henry James and the Visual (New York: Cambridge UP, 2007), pp. 262, cloth, $100.00. Almost half a decade has gone by since Laurence B. Holland published his landmark study of Henry James, The Expense of Vision, yet critics remain preoccupied...

... religious-political currents, I argue that the novel's marriage plot emerged as both a cultural agent of the Erastian state and an expression of a highly labile, conservative, patriot opposition. It did so, therefore, as an English marriage plot which placed Anglican ritual and relations between vicars...

..., the kernel of the engagement of literature with the political lies in the exhaustion of the nation as a site of the constitution of a popular will. In the case of Arguedas, whose work is deeply marked by the long colonial experience of the Andean people, repeated frustrations with modern notions...

...: Scolar, 1973 . Davidson , Jenny . Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004 . Day , Thomas . The History of Sandford and Merton . 3 Vols . 1783–1789. Ed. Isaac Kramnick. New York: Garland, 1977...

... political concepts that they are—liable to politicize personal grievances as much as treaties, legal statutes, or judicial decisions. Literature provides an important intellectual and political arena where those without institutionally affirmed political subjectivity or legal personhood can define harm...

...: Oxford UP, 1988 . Gilroy , Paul . “Living Memory: A Meeting with Toni Morrison.” Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures . London: Serpent’s Tail, 1993. 175–82. Harper , Phillip Brian . Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture . New York: Oxford UP...

...MICHELLE BURNHAM TERESA A. TOULOUSE, The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007), pp. 240, cloth, $49.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 The Politics of Captivity...

...Shirley Samuels LAUREN BERLANT, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham: Duke UP, 2008), pp. 368, cloth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Political Complaint lauren berlant, The Female...

...: Politics, Form, and Method ADAM BRADLEY, Ralph Ellison in Progress: From Invisible Man to Three Days before the Shoot- ing . . . (New Haven: Yale UP, 2010), pp. 256, cloth, $27.50, paper, $20.00. “The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead”—an often-quoted line from the prologue of Ralph...

... primarily through attacking Indian property law, which has historically excluded women from its purview. Whereas previous criticism has focused on Roy's exploration of female social ostracism, this essay addresses the precarious political, juridical, and economic status of women in the novel. The God...

... to discourse surrounding US empire: “[S]tate secrecy is a crucial part of a larger ideological system for managing the contradictions of U.S. empire” (13). Melley reads Didion's political fiction as grappling with those contradictions, particularly as her novels allegorize the tensions between what Melley...

...Gene Andrew Jarrett I examine the political value of The Wind Done Gone (2001), Alice Randall's parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), according to the 2001 court case SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Company . Houghton Mifflin's defense of Randall's novel from the Stephens...

... . Carson , Gerald . The Polite Americans . New York: Morrow, 1966 . Davis , Lennard J. Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel . New York: Columbia UP, 1983 . Defoe , Daniel . “ Defoe’s Editor’s Preface .” Robinson Crusoe . Ed. Angus Ross. Harmondsworth: Penguin...