...FRANK CHRISTIANSON DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. HENKLE, The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 208, cloth, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Poverty and the Man DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. I...

... curiously formulaic design offers another means by which it dramatizes the poverty of the anti-instrumental tradition in the current political landscape. Ultimately, I suggest, we may understand these dramas of immediacy, and the related interest in those suffering from human rights abuses, as a symptomatic...

... of literature after 9/11, they are never fully able to come to terms with the issues of class, poverty, empire, and religion they constantly evoke. While Falling Man and Saturday ask important questions about the place of literature in a post-9/11 world, both novels ultimately fail to assign a meaningful...

.... The Nether World , more than any other Gissing novel, emerged from a spirit of enmity and revenge. The novel was born out of the experience of Gissing's first wife's death amid poverty and degradation; he saw the novel as a means of avenging injustice, a way to channel resentment into art. The antagonistic...

... labor in Peking (Beijing) and Bombay (Mumbai), respectively, the novels juxtapose the visual cultures of colonial modernization with everyday, arresting experiences of poverty and precarity on the city streets. In staging the untimely deaths of their rickshaw-pulling protagonists, they not only...

... London: Penguin, 1986 . Dickens , Charles . Sketches by Boz . 1836. Ed. Dennis Walder. London: Penguin, 1995 . Ellis , Sarah Stickney . Family Secrets; Or, Hints to Those Who Would Keep Home Happy . London: Fisher Son & Company, 1841 . Englander , David . Poverty...

..., and their poverty limits their experiences in ways that fictions of certain kinds have made predictable. This essay considers the industrial poor of nineteenth-century Britain and alludes to other kinds of poverty in later novels about other kinds of ‘‘poor’’ characters. Inventing...

... has taken up all our Minds and, as I have often complained, Poverty and Riches stand in our Imaginations in the Places of Guilt and Innocence" (466). I agree with Monaghan that, "Read in sequence, the six novels reveal an evolving social vision and a continual search...

... on the greener side of the di- vide. The ethics of one's success and another's impoverishment, individual rise and collective fall, manifests an intimate relationship between resource and rep- resentation, the price of privilege and the cost of poverty. It is a relationship that I contend both...

...Laura Strout Barbara Leckie , Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain ( Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2018 ), pp. 312 , cloth, $79.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 “Let us look into the house.” Again...

..., carefully fleshed-out realist drama set in India, in England, and in the relationship between the two countries and their peoples before and after Indian independence. She ranged far beyond the sympathetic rendition of rural and urban poverty in mid-twentieth-century India (in Nectar in a Sieve...

..., as the compassionate think" (139). Although "by no means ready yet to preach poverty as a saving graceW(l48),the narrator con- cludes his tour by confirming the naturalness of economic disparity and the ir- reconcilable difference between what is "normal" for the residents of the East Side...

... by virtue of appearing repeatedly: in Gaskeli's novel, the Barton family's calico curtains signal their working-class respectability; the mahogany furniture Jane Eyre encounters in houses of the well-to-do reinforces her own poverty; the "Negro head tobacco that Dickens chooses for Magwich is favored...

... . “Life after Death in Poverty: David Treuer's Little.” American Indian Quarterly 29 : 3 – 4 ( Summer-Fall 2005 ): 651 – 72 . Teuton Christopher B. “Theorizing American Indian Literature: Applying Oral Concepts to Written Traditions.” Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collection...

... lived through and would have been aware of, see Tony Tanner (Jane Austen 2–4). For a more specific account of food-related poverty among the laboring classes during Austen’s time, see John Burnett 14–17. 4 In dealing with questions of characterological distribution, both Woloch and I...

... of existence beyond survival. How do we make sense of this formal ambivalence toward the archive? In Silver Fleece , Du Bois comes up against the limits of his ability to imagine a proper Black subject, that is, one that has recovered from the abject poverty of the fugitive slave, as well as from post...

... of the African city-is a fairly new one in the history of human experience and in the history of narrative forms. African political theorists and urbanists have already speculated in fascinating ways about the new forms of subjectivity that these ever-waxing factories of poverty with their largely...

... of poverty that attends bankruptcy, for which the title character is the repository; the shame of wealth that follows upon that poverty; and the shame of memory itself, which finds concrete form in the representation of debt. The personalities of the major characters, including Little Dorrit, Arthur...

... recalcitrantly real, most intransigently material, that life has to offer" (3). He shows how the elaboration of such themes as physical suffering, trauma, wealth, and poverty car- ries inflections of gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality in the US realist tradition. Toward that end, Barrish offers...

.... This instability is precisely what literary writers concerned with the “global imaginary” exploit, turning back hunger, crowdedness, poverty, or violence onto the bourgeois subject/voyeur—all conditions in which that subject is complicit. Unlike the global cultural marketplace where one can shop for difference...