...MICHAEL SAYEAU AMANDA CLAYBAUGH, The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006), pp. 264, cloth, $45.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Realism, Reform, and the Transatlantic Novel AMANDA CLAYRAUGH, The Novel...

... Books, 1991 . Brantlinger , Patrick . The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics, 1832–1867 . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1977 . Byerly , Alison . Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature . New York: Cambridge UP, 1997 . Crowley , John W...

... narratives of political reform. The novel “relocates” the conventions of these two genres, transplanting the formal, thematic, and rhetorical conventions of each genre to the plotlines and subject matter of the other. Such relocation undermines normative expectations about both genres and opens possibilities...

... Dickens himself, in his simultaneous insistence on the need for burial reform. It is ultimately those meanings attached to putrefaction by sanitary reformers, this essay suggests, that prove the most serious barrier to Dickens's efforts to defend an embattled Christian psychology. © 2011 by Novel, Inc...

...Kfir Cohen Abstract This essay examines recent developments in Israeli cultural production. To do so, it argues, we must think of new cultural forms as responses to the neoliberal privatization reforms that accompany globalization. These reforms have altered Israeli social life to the degree...

... at the close of the nineteenth century via corsetless ingenues somnambulating alone in public after dark. These popular fictions converge with material culture in the dress reforms of fashion designers to advance women's increased mobility and sexual license—but at a cost. Together they connect women...

...Meltem Gürle Be it the top-down secularism of the Kemalist reforms or the authoritarian conservatism of the present Islamist government, the political will in Turkey has persistently ignored the individual, the most valuable component of democratic modernity. The Turkish bildungsroman voices...

...‐provoking in their skepticism, or their pessimistic realism, about the possibility of a politically or ethically motivated reform of sex and desire. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 George Sand feminism sexuality sex wars I want a hero; an uncommon...

... of the cognitive standards of liberal citizenship, statistical sciences around the time of the 1867 Reform Act reversed the usual priority given to the individual over the collective, redefining the self as a compilation of demographic and social information. When Anthony Trollope's 1867 Phineas Finn performs...

... intangibility. Still, the true miracle in the novel is the reformation caused by the girl's superfluous writing. By thus staging a fable of domestication through verbal manners, Pamela contributes, decisively but problematically, to the consolidation of domestic fiction. Both the residual omnipresence...

..., abridging, and reassembling as legitimate creative procedures and suggest that commercial forces made originality and ownership more difficult to stabilize than nineteenth-century novelists and copyright reformers would have liked. In this light, Nina Balatka 's failed attempt to assimilate the figure...

... historical narratives of Nostromo and Women in Love describe the transformation of the earlier promise of development into an apocalyptic present, and, in turn, the dissolution of the progressive assurance of the realist novel. While the nineteenth‐century novels plead for reform and paternalistic care...

... as a powerful force that should be able to overcome all is reduced to a failed attempt at epistemic reform. Through her failure, the novel raises questions about the possibilities of radical world-making that have historically been overlooked by Hardy's critics. [email protected] Copyright © 2024...

...Elaine Hadley Reform Acts does not simply catalog the Victorians' senses of social agency but also enacts a prestructuralist method of intentionality. Even though this study usefully gives credence to dominant contemporary discourses (Chartist, Whig, Tory, Christian Socialist), even though...

...SARAH WINTER CAROLYN VELLENGA BERMAN, Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006), pp. 240, cloth, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Transatlantic Abolition CAROLYN VELLENGA BERMAN, Creole...

..., and Humanitarian Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Journal of British Studies 25 ( 1986 ): 312 –34. McGowen , Randall . “Punishing Violence, Sentencing Crime.” Eds. Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse. The Violence of Representation . New York: Routledge, 1989 . 140 –56. Mill...

... are able to reimagine the subject, their ability to fully realize the potential of democracy will continue to be limited. To this end, Castiglia often moves between cur- rent attempts to reimagine American society and nineteenth-century reform movements. In fact, another way to describe Interior...

... Foucault's Discipline and Punish came influential studies of surveillance, reform, and novelistic character by D. A. Miller and John Bender . They consider the emergence and hardening of modern disciplinary institutions that would endure for centuries. In the era of hyperincarceration, Americanists...

... by and about prisoners, treatises by political theorists, and the rhetoric of penal reformers. For Smith the prison is an imaginative landscape that has been defined by stories and politi- cal rituals about bodies and souls, freedom and bondage. With this swath of texts, Smith’s The Prison...

... questions” that accounts of these houses “inevitably, if often implicitly, raise” (7). Attending to the houses of the poor, she argues, “reconfigures how we understand depth epistemologies, agitation for social reform, innovations in the genre of the novel (to which both social reform and depth...