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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 November 2020
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 24–42.
Published: 01 May 2014
... begins as a young country boy by the name of Robin crosses a body of water by ferry and enters ‘‘the little metropolis of a New England colony, with as eager an eye, as if he were entering London city’’ (4). In seeking out his kinsman, Major Molineux, Robin sets off a conflict between two systems...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 August 2010
... and puffs” [78 She has sought his counsel on the matter of her abortive lesbian rela- tionship with Robin Vote, but his elliptical answers are as much informed by his own abject status as they are by his psychoanalytic understanding. As someone whose “only fireside is the outhouse” and who haunts...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 163–188.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Robins's The Convert ( 1907 ), and that together they demonstrate why stories of female political Bildung required such fusion. These two novels—an unlikely pair, since Oliphant's novel is usually considered domestic fiction—both legitimate female political Bildung by combining genres. Miss...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 165–169.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., seems to take Barnes only in one direction: a reaffirmation of the power of religion. Matthew O'Connor and Robin Vote, the chief queer characters in the book, are presented as “angst-ridden” (111) and in search of religious salvation. Pinkerton contests Jane Marcus's well-known interpretation...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 490–494.
Published: 01 November 2015
... contemporaries categorized civil rights leaders as modern-day Uncle Toms because they refused to endorse strategic violence over civil disobedience, Reed defamiliarizes the Uncle Tom trope by making Uncle Robin the most successfully rebellious character in the novel. . . . Reed repositioned Uncle Tomming...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 82–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., hard beat in the femoral artery of his lambs when overdriven” (44). Oak can feel for Fanny Robin, whose name already tells us something about this connection, because he understands her “overdriven” state from his experience with his sheep, also “overdriven” by his dog while they were in “condition...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... you belong"' (38): "The President blushes; he finds it hard to keep in a giggle. Swille and Robin join in, clapping their hands: 'You're looking swell, Abbbeee. I can tell, Abbeeee. You're still growin', you're still goin (39). Although the reference to a musical can be seen as merely one...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 May 2004
... the animal's head back for him to saw at its tfzroat, I am grateful to Nancy Armstrong, Robin Blyn, Ed Comentale, Jonathan Elmer, Scott Juengel, Jim Naremore, Pat O'Donnell, and Sarah Wohlford for their generous readings of earlier versions of this essay. See West's letter of 5 April...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in the Twentieth Century . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996 . Gates , Henry Louis Jr. Colored People: A Memoir . New York: Knopf, 1994 . Johnson , Charles . Dreamer: A Novel . New York: Scribner, 1998 . Kelley , Robin D. G. “The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 121–125.
Published: 01 May 2011
... community in hopes of making space for the most extreme emotions we are able to imagine. The performance of virtuosity turns savage here, and for such characters as Shrike (in Miss Lonelyhearts) and Robin Vote (in Nightwood), humanity itself is something of an impersonation, an antic mask of social...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... . Biggs Norman , Lloyd E. Keith , and Wilson Robin J. Graph Theory, 1736–1936 . Oxford : Clarendon , 1986 . Brewer David . The Afterlife of Character, 1726–1825 . Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2005 . Calinger Ronald . “ Leonhard Euler: The First St...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 67–89.
Published: 01 May 2014
... : Stanford UP , 2006 . Wright Robin . Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World . New York : Simon & Schuster , 2011 . Jumping Publics: Magdy El Shafee’s Cairo Comics BRIAN T. EDWARDS In the wake of the Arab uprisings of 2010–11...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 345–363.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Mary Booth Austin . Cambridge : MIT P , 2002 . 374 – 402 . Roberts Robin . A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction . Urbana : U of Illinois P , 1993 . Rody Caroline . The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History . New...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 474–481.
Published: 01 November 2009
... quick hard beat in the femo- ral artery of his lambs when overdriven” (45). Gabriel can feel for Fanny Robin (named, of course, after a bird) and understand her “overdriven” state because he has recognized this state in his sheep. Sympathy, it is implied, requires a capacity for tactile...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 18–51.
Published: 01 August 2007
.... “Construction of Identity: Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa?” Historically Speaking 7.3 ( 2006 ): 8 –9. Lovejoy , Paul E. “Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, on the Mosquito Shore: Plantation Overseer cum Abolitionist.” Unpublished paper, 2006 . Lovejoy , Paul E. , and Law Robin...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the human and to find new ways to represent and acknowledge animal consciousness, agency, and being” in an effort to “animalize the novel” (116). Through trenchant explications—of the scene of Jude in the cornfield, identifying with the hungry crows; of pregnant Fanny Robin in “On Casterbridge Highway...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 467–470.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and the international. Quoting Robin Kelley, Tolentino shows how the literary works that concern her disclose the insight that he puts so succinctly when he notes that i]nternationalizing’ United States history is not about telling the story of foreign policy or foreign relations, but about how tenuous...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Stuart Hopkins David , eds. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English . Vol. 3 , 1660 – 1790 . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2005 . Gillespie Stuart Sowerby Robin . “Translation and Literary Innovation.” Gillespie and Hopkins 21 – 37 . Gilson David...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and Mentorship in The House of Mirth and the Anglo-American Realist Tradition.” New Essays on the House of Mirth . Ed. Deborah Esch. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001 . 43 -105. Peel , Robin . Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton, Politics, and Fiction before World War I . Madison, NJ: Fairleigh...