... of Melanie Klein begins to suggest why it should have such a consequential literary role. Attending to the primitive, destructive, and relational qualities that Klein associates with this affect enables us to identify a literary current of envy—one that elucidates the emotionally violent, socially...

..., the moral and psychic disintegration of individualism, upon which the liberal political imagination is founded. Fanaticism appears as the dialectical product of objective historical processes of modernization, a more radical ideology of modernity, rather than some primitive, residual, or atavistic moral...

... preoccupations pertaining to peasants' status in their contemporary society. It makes a case for Hardy's lucid awareness of the continuing nature of primitive accumulation in England and demonstrates that the text aptly explores its effects on various rural social classes. To do so, the article closely examines...

..., the article repurposes Georg Lukács's theorization of the genre via Marx's concept of “origin” (primitive accumulation) of the capitalist mode of production. Treating Ghosh's trilogy as an exemplary case, this article's reading focuses on how the text's formal attributes are central to its narration...

... York: Norton, 1961 . Herbert , Christopher . War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008 . Trevelyan , George Otto . Cawnpore . London: Macmillan, 1894 . Tylor , Edward B . Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development...

... of Kinship . Trans. James Harle Bell, Rodney Needham, and John Richard Von Sturmer. Boston: Beacon, 1969 . Maine , Henry Sumner . Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas . London: John Murray, 1861 . McClennan , John . Primitive...

... offers an account of and critical engagement with these approaches, among others ( “Primitive Accumulation” ). 21 Kornbluh writes: An old Frisian, old Saxon, old German word for “ fire, floor, ground, dwelling, family residence, ” “hearth” is a baseboard signifier for the spatialization...

... Life . Trans. Cosman Carol . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2001 . Elbarbary Samir . “Heart of Darkness and Late-Victorian Fascination with the Primitive and the Double.” Twentieth Century Literature 39 . 1 ( 1993 ): 113 – 28 . Girard René . La violence et le sacré . Paris...

... Sumner Maine's Ancient Law and John McLennan's Primitive Marriage-to examine some of the la- bor that goes into that invention. Late-Victorian meditations on women as prop- erty do not, I am claiming, reflect a state of fact, analyze an existing social order, or even merely seek to provide...

... complicates Mayhew's social order when he suggests that at the end of the century the mod- ern citizen claimed no settled identity, but a mobility even more extensive than that of Mayhew's "wandering races." The vampire Dracula, who in the novel is identified as primitive and alien and who certainly...

... Invisible Man.” Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison . Ed. Kimberly W. Benston. Washington, DC: Howard UP, 1987 . 163 –72. ———. Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race . New York: Oxford UP, 1998 . Torgovnick , Marianna . Gone Primitive: Savage...

...Caroline Levine © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press LOGAN PETER MELVILLE , Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives ( Albany : State U of New York P , 2009 ), pp. 218 , cloth, $55.00 . PLOTZ JOHN , Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move...

..., but not without a debate between the evolutionists and diffusionists. Evolutionists, like the British anthropologist Andrew Lang, maintained that "[tlhe stories were not dis- seminated, but originated in many different places following the same natural responses of primitive man to his environment" (66...

... that the anthropologist Johannes Fabian has developed as the concept of ‘denial of coevalness,’ a tendency through which anthropology has permitted itself to place the cultures it studies in a time distinct from the present of the researcher, thereby conceiving them as ‘primitive’” ( 118 ). 13 For an overview...

... . Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study in Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation . New York : Morrow , 1928 . ———. Preface . Cultural Patterns and Technical Change: A Manual Prepared by the World Federation for Mental Health . Ed. Mead Margaret . New York : New American Library...

... the other desires is what constitutes me so the other must be lured to make me its primary object, and thus I must make myself desirable in the other's terms. In all cases of primitive identification, the subjectivity of what is not the self (the mother or the idolized other) must be denied. As Wyatt...

..., attention to authorial prefaces and narratorial commentary shows how the genre’s explicit nationalism is contradicted on the level of form by its repeated reference to overlap- ping and incompatible temporalities; likewise, an examination of dialect writing, which registers both a primitive past...

...,” far from Maggie's destructive violence; the assured touch of the master craftsman, the gentle accretive touch of the growing child. Benjamin's child with its “natural” understanding of the primitively produced object has little in common with the primitively furious child who exercises its “natural...

... The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger in which the tragedy of the protagonist Okonkwo will figure as a mere para- kortenaar | arrow of god 469 graph. The story of the man who hanged himself because he had no other means of expressing his...

... ( 2014 ): 341 – 66 . Morris Rosalind C. “ Ursprüngliche Akkumulation: The Secret of an Originary Mistranslation .” Boundary 2 43 . 3 ( 2016 ): 29 – 77 . Nichols Robert . “ Disaggregating Primitive Accumulation .” Radical Philosophy 194 ( 2015 ): 18 – 28 . Nickels...