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Isabel Archer and the Burdens of Centrality
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 August 2017
... nineteenth-century realism character-space recessive action In his 1908 Preface to The Portrait of a Lady , Henry James remembers his optimism, as he gazed out the window of his rented lodgings on the Riva Schiavoni in the spring of 1880, that Venice's demands on his attention might be turned...
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We Are All Mrs. Micawber
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 338–342.
Published: 01 August 2019
...? Was Forster right to surmise that there was more to flatness than critics admitted? Is there something like what Anne-Lise François called recessive action, largely passive and eventless forms of experience that captivate us precisely by making no demand, in these figures? Or do these oddball novels offer...
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“New Forms of Sublimity”: Edgar Huntly and the European Origins of American Exceptionalism
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 104–124.
Published: 01 August 2007
...-cavities, rifts,
caves, hollows, and recesses-that enable all of the central actions of the novel. A
land of recesses and underground caverns is a land seemingly destined to give
rise to secrets, romantic mysteries, and freaks of fancy. And by virtue of its ir-
regularly decaying surface, where...
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When Experience Matters: Tom Jones and “Virtue Rewarded”
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
... a different kind of ‘‘uncounted experience’’ when
compared to those that Anne-Lise Franc¸ois describes as ‘‘recessive action that takes itself away
as it occurs’’ (xvi). Fielding notes that certain bold, seemingly decisive acts come nevertheless
not to count, whereas Franc¸ois is interested...
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Zero Degree Everything: An Interview with Tom McCarthy
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 176–187.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... It seems so contemporary, especially after Abu Ghraib and the whole idea of the state of exception that [Giorgio] Agamben talks about. In Sade, they go extraterritorial; it's all about extraordinary rendition. They take these people out of the legal bounds of France in order to do these ritualized actions...
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Form and the Anticolonial Novel: William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... strategy that all anticolonial fiction must gravitate around. Anne-Lise François uses the “open secret” as a way to refer to a literary text's “nonemphatic revelation—revelation without insistence and without rhetorical underscoring,” “a mode of recessive action that takes itself away as it occurs...
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From City to Country: An Outline of Fluvio-Critique
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 53–72.
Published: 01 May 2007
... to Paris. The seemingly unilinear narrative of such novels is fa-
miliar. They represent a dynamic that appears obvious: the desire of and for the
capital. Characters like Rastignac, Rubemprt5, Julien Sorel, and Frt5dt5ric Moreau
come immediately to mind. The action of their stories is motivated...
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The Novel and Prejudice
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 176–183.
Published: 01 May 2010
... how his
appearance causes universal human revulsion. Yet he conceives one final Rous-
seauian hope for natural companionship upon glimpsing in the woods near his
creator’s home in Geneva “a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I
had chosen with all the sportiveness of infancy...
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Antisocial Fictions: Mill and the Novel
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 38–46.
Published: 01 May 2010
... at large. A kind of suspended
credence in the reasonableness of others’ actions becomes as crucial for making
sense of daily social transactions as it is for successful novel reading. Because
“Humean skepticism posits this continuous, habitual world of ordinary relations
as a fiction” (Duncan 120...
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Sleep Deprived and Ultramodern: How Novels Turned Dream Girls into Insomniacs
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 304–310.
Published: 01 August 2009
... despot, these young heroines relinquish volitional control
and with it the ability to check, account for, or even recall their actions. Spellbound
but mobile, an otherwise tone-deaf Trilby performs ethereal singing as Svengali’s
bride while Dracula’s betrothed, the precocious Lucy, engages...
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“We Must Write Like the White Men”: Race, Realism, and Dunbar’s Anomalous First Novel
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 303–325.
Published: 01 November 2004
... Society. Dunbar , Paul Laurence . Majors and Minors . Toledo: Hadley & Hadley, 1896 . Dunbar , Paul Laurence . “The Negroes of the Tenderloin.” Columbus Dispatch [Ohio] ( December 19 , 1898 ). Martin and Hudson 40 –3. Dunbar , Paul Laurence . “Recession Never.” Toledo...
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What Does Reading Do in the Anthropocene?
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 109–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and care as ends in themselves and limit points of possible action” must be viewed as “inextricable from the cultural and social forms of US imperialism” ( 9 ). Wenzel's readings are often dazzling in their scope and erudition, but I am dubious about this second sense of “reading for the planet” because...
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Mindless Modernism
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 116–132.
Published: 01 May 2013
....” Philosophy and Literature 27 . 1 ( 2003 ): 164 – 87 <doi:10.1353/phl.2003.0027> . Kenner Hugh . Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study . Berkeley : U of California P , 1968 . Kramnick Jonathan . Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2010...
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African Literature, Modernism, and the Problem of Political Subjectivity
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 264–278.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to be
understood as mere opposites. Marx's "merely" (nur) calls for something more,
not something other, and "changing the world" has to take place at the level of
thought as much as that of action in the everyday sense.' The question here is
one of form: what form is appropriate to a philosophy that would...
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The Contemporary Novel and Postdemocratic Form
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 292–307.
Published: 01 August 2018
... materials and character of the environment” toward a one-time action ( 721 ). As John Barth points out in his 1967 essay “The Literature of Exhaustion,” happenings and other “intermedia” arts share a “tendency to eliminate not only the traditional audience . . . but also the most traditional notion...
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American Entrapments: Taxonomic Capture in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 26–48.
Published: 01 May 2016
... crucial in helping the two men out of a perilous situation. Thus the course of action vindicates Battius and seems to justify his (selective) compassion. It should also be noted that, though recurrently ridiculed by the trapper, the naturalist is never fully defeated in their debates, and at times...
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At Land's End: Novel Spaces and the Limits of Planetarity
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 May 2016
... . “ The Great God Pan .” 1890 . Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural . Ed. Wise Herbert A. and Wagner Phyllis Cerf . New York : Modern Library , 1994 . 579 – 632 . Marsh George Perkins . The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature . New York...
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Political Melodrama Meets Domestic Fiction: The Politics of Genre in North and South
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2019
... authorities about that persecuted figure; and, above all, the absolute distinction between good and evil that Peter Brooks ( esp. 14–15 ) has defined as fundamental to postrevolutionary melodrama. 13 Gaskell also rejects political melodrama's theatricalized emotions and the rising melodramatic action...
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Open-Circuit Narrative: Programmed Reading in Richard Powers
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 547–565.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in a mounting class action suit. In Plowing the Dark , however, the force of bitter contrast alone—rather than telling juxtaposition—prevails, no pending narrative fusion in the offing for most of the book. Only a blunt set of polarities: augmented electronic reality over against bare life, technological free...
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Rumor, Reputation, and Sensation in Tess of the D'urbervilles
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., there is a “good gossip” that “enlarges the world” in a quite different sense and counts as
“healing talk” (Spacks, “In Praise” 25–27); see generally Patricia Meyer Spacks, Gossip.
4 See Blakey Vermeule’s claim that gossip in literature “pushes the action deeper into the back-
ground” (104...
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