... < http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html >. Reading Novel Reading ELLEN ROONEY Can you any longer read Henry James or George Eliot? Do you have the patience? Maryanne Wolf From Jennifer...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith The forum's question might be interpreted more broadly and evoke a broader set of answers than found in these essays. For example, we might recall that, for many people over much of recorded history, the texts that have been the central objects of reading activities have...

...Katherine Kruger Abstract By foregrounding the difficulties with reading the child, Henry James's What Maisie Knew reconfigures the relationship between simplicity, transparency, and opacity to create reparative “styles of knowing” in the novel. This article proposes that the difficulty...

... of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994 . Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . 1984. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992 . Carroll , David , ed. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage . 1971. London: Routledge...

...Daniel Hack This essay argues that a combination of the frequently opposed methods of book history and reception studies, on the one hand, and those of formal analysis and close reading, on the other, is needed to illuminate the cultural work done by and with novels. Taking as my example...

...David Kurnick This essay aims to deepen our understanding of the intellectual and affective characteristics of novel reading by examining the tendency of George Eliot's heroines to drift free of the constraints of their own plots. It focuses on Eliot's historical novel Romola (1862-63...

... or later makes a picture of its fulfillment” and turns the phrase toward a discussion of “kernel narrative.” Questions of boredom and the temporality of reading are then posed by way of Soap Opera Diges t , the weekly guide to events that the television viewer may have missed. Through a re-engagement...

...ANNA JONES A Victim in Search ofa Torturer: Reading Masochism in Wilkie Collins's No Name ANNA JONES "You planned this marriage of your own free will," pursued the captain, with the furtive look and the faltering voice of a man ill at ease. "It was your own idea-not mine...

...JEAN MARIE LUTES Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 JAMIE BARLOWE, The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), pp. 192, $39.95. Reading Hawthorne in a Gender-Biased Academy JAMIE BARLOWE, The Scarlet Mob...

...Peter D. McDonald When J. Hilllis Miller first coined the phrase “the ethics of reading” in the mid-1980s, it constituted a decisive intervention in the overheated debates about the merits of deconstruction, inaugurating the so-called ethical turn within Anglo-American literary studies. Yet it also...

...Ellen Rooney Works Cited Althusser Louis Balibar Étienne . Reading Capital . Trans. Brewster Ben . London : Verso , 1979 . Johnson Barbara . “Nothing Fails Like Success.” A World of Difference . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1987 . 11 – 16...

...Alexander R. Galloway In her book Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing, philosopher Catherine Malabou tells a story about the historical end of reading and writing and their reinvention in a new form. The new mode is seen most vividly, suggests Malabou, in the cerebral plasticity of the brain...

...Kate Flint In this response piece, I consider the variety of ways in which reading may be said to work upon a reader, and I bring out the importance of the idea of affect in this respect. I note that affect is frequently conceived of in a positive light, and my argument shifts to ask what happens...

...Aarthi Vadde This short piece argues that the demands of reading globally should change how we approach conversations about the ethical reading of minoritarian literature. Rather than assume a stable relationship between the imagined reader as subject and the text as object, we should consider how...

... and the Post-Colonial Moment . Durham : Duke UP , 1993 . Poovey Mary . Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2008 . Reading for the Words garrett stewart, Novel Violence...

.... and trans. Wolff Kurt H. . New York : Free Press , 1950 . Reviews Reading Culture through a Literary Lens cynthia tolentino, America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009), pp. 200, cloth...

... Speed Reading enda duffy, The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (Durham: Duke UP, 2009), pp. 320, cloth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. At first glance, The Speed Handbook does not seem to be an especially well-named book. Where one might expect a compendium of modernist writings on cars...

...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...

...Philip Gould OTTER SAMUEL , Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom ( New York : Oxford UP , 2010 ), pp. 408 , cloth, $29.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Reading the Grid samuel otter...

...Ellen Rooney Rooney's essay addresses the question of novel reading and novel form in feminist literary critique and recent debates on reading by way of Sianne Ngai's work on the interesting and its intersection with the novelistic and with a contemporary figure of feminist protest: the pussy hat...