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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 107–115.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Stuart Sherman Newspapers and novels both tend to run long, but they accomplish their protractions by means so different as to seem at first glance diametrically opposed—the paper by its steady pulse of publication across an open-ended span, the novel by something more like sprawl. Despite...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 209–211.
Published: 01 August 2004
...DANIEL HACK NEIL HERTZ, George Eliot’s Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), pp. xii + 168, cloth, $60.00, paper, $18.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Neil Hertz's Pulse
NEIL HERTZ, George Eliot's Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), pp. xii + 168...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 451–459.
Published: 01 November 2009
... I could bear. (100)
The passage forcefully registers not just Basil’s sensations but precisely the kinds
of physiological rhythms that a registering apparatus might be expected to record,
in particular the standard triad in medical case histories: temperature, pulse, res-
piration. Collins...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 August 2020
... at its core, but at what scale, in what fashion? Should we consider the novel's relation to modernity as an epoch, or look more closely at its implication in a century, a decade, a day, a practice, or a pace of reading? Do novels, as E. M. Forster argues, contain clocks, or do they pulse and flutter like...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in the
1860s.
WILLIAMS | RUMOR, REPUTATION, AND SENSATION IN TESS 95
states on account of its deep and sensed link with our corporeal existence. Quick-
ening the pulse, raising a blush, inducing the acute and stinging feeling of being
watched or the uncanny sense of being within...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 502–504.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the House Un-American Committee of the 1950s—the pulse of politics and history is not a strong one, especially if one stops to consider other types of censorship, perhaps the censorship of the market or the censorship of a religious fatwa, which puts an artist like Salmon Rushdie under a death threat. Does...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 363–366.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of Malinowski, Joyce, Woolf, Orwell, and Mary Webb. The ethnographic im-
pulses of novels like Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway are by now fairly clear and well-
documented; but Marx goes beyond the by-now familiar cultural-anthropological study of
urban neighborhoods 6 la Michel de Certeau (done most...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 2023
... continuing to insert itself into it, making itself necessary for its readers' upholding of certain crucial forms of self-understanding and selfhood itself. To make this observation is by no means a criticism, nor do I intend it as such. Boxall has had his finger on the pulse of novel theory for a long...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 158–180.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of the first
woman who quickened the pulses within you that the rest of her sex had no art
to stir" (52). Walter's understanding of his lover thus comes to seem as if it re-
volves around his perception of her as an especially exciting set of surfaces.
One obvious question raised by the consistent...
Journal Article
Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... threshold is a door shutting, and throughout the story the sound of doors “gently knocking like the pulse of a heart,” forms a baseline rhythm: “‘Safe, safe, safe,’ the pulse of the house beats gladly, ‘The treasure yours’” (123). Synchronized in the pulse of this living house are the activity of the ghosts...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and compelling readings, Franta has his finger on the pulse of Enlightenment systems and system breakdowns. The question remains, however, to what extent Enlightenment systematizers anticipated system failure not as evidence of the futility of systematizing but as part of the very iterative process systems...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 444–462.
Published: 01 November 2022
... worse” ( Austen 261 ). On the third day, “[h]er pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favorable” (262). But that evening, she declines again: Elinor “watched with unremitting attention her continual change of posture, and heard the frequent but inarticulate sounds of complaint which passed her...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 312–315.
Published: 01 November 2007
... that matter to me, it also embeds these choices
in ima@ worlds in which choices matter, in which consequences can be felt on the
pulse" (264, emphasis added). I emphasize Wollaeger's phrasing here because it raises the
question of what matters most inMadernism, Media, and Propaganda. Coming more from...
Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (3): 509–512.
Published: 01 November 2011
... between the category or
type and the exception. Jaffe extends this work in compelling new directions.
ablow | abstracted interiority 511
Chapter 2, “Cardiac Excitability: Impulse, Restraint, and ‘the Pulse of the People
returns us...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 515–518.
Published: 01 November 2012
... (144). Here,
Bradley’s analysis resonates with the work of cultural critics such as Avery Gordon, whose
influential text,Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, provides a method
for reading the pulsing absences (“hauntings”) of history. Bradley does so in a way specific...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 452–471.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., the massive pulse of flotsam the Tōhoku tsunami launched into the Pacific, and the bag containing the improbable, heartbreaking collection of objects that includes Nao's diary. Her narrative technique thus mirrors the physical oceanographic technique of modeling the ocean's fluid dynamics via the movement...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 253–274.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... The throb of the motor engines sounded like a
pulse irregularly drumming through an entire body. The sun became extraordinarily
hot because the motor car had stopped outside Mulberry’s shop window. . . . And
there the motor car stood, with drawn blinds, and upon them a curious pattern like...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 382–387.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to an analytic pro-
ject that hopes to re-establish contact with "the somatic pulses" and affects purportedly
lurking in the objects under investigation. The task is not so much to comprehend mod-
ernism as to realize that there are numerous modernisms, some of which aimed to pro-
duce states...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 August 2013
... the materiality of the historical “reference” in postmodern narratives, the
ethics undergirding the explicitly parodic and self-referential postmodern text, and the
relationship between the coextensive discourses of post-structuralism, postcolonialism,
and postmodernism. In finding the postmodernist pulse...
Journal Article
Novel (2021) 54 (2): 227–247.
Published: 01 August 2021
... as generate it” ( 94 ). 7 My essay's title nods toward Hertz's “Recognizing Casaubon,” chapter 2 of George Eliot's Pulse . 8 Kurnick aligns Romola as reader with the idea of “drifting,” defining reading in the novel's representations as “a matter of distraction and inattention” ( 494–95...
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