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Scale in Tess in Scale
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Benjamin Morgan Abstract Concepts of scale have become urgent and contested in two thriving but seemingly unrelated fields. Humanities scholarship on anthropogenic climate change often argues that our historical present is defined by a conflict between human and geological timescales. At the same...
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Small-Scale Institutions in Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 399–417.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of literary building, within a historical setting that represents the very epitome of anti‐institutionalism. Published at a moment—the aftermath of the 2008 crash—when housing insecurity had again emerged as a significant site of activism, I Hotel examines the utopian possibilities latent within small‐scale...
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Representing the Planet: Affect, Scale, and Utopia
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 2020
...David Sergeant Abstract The discourses of planetarity and globalization are both governed by the relationship between the maximal scale of the world and the subsidiary scalar levels that constitute it. However, if in globalization those subsidiary levels are envisioned as converging on a homogenous...
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Close Reading on a Global Scale
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 475–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... can all be traced back to Zola is hardly surprising given that the term naturalism is practically synonymous with his work. Yet the strategy is not simply a tribute to the scale of Zola's achievement in his twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Taking his cue from Pierre Bourdieu, Laing Hill...
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Romancing the Anthropocene: H. G. Wells and the Genre of the Future
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of narrating expansive temporal scales that exceed the representational capacity of the realist novel. The essay's overarching suggestion is that stretching narratives to the extreme longue durée of the geologic epoch necessitates shifting away from realism, opening new possibilities for genres (including...
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Quixotic Realism and the Romance of the Novel
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 239–244.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., for pleasure, perhaps even for real. The claim of the novel to be an index of historicity rests on the genre's ability to stage the irreducible interplay of divergent scales of history, the long time of romance, and the local time of realism. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Appiah , Kwame...
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Some Body's Story: The Novel as Instrument
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 451–459.
Published: 01 November 2009
... like the medical graphing instruments of the 1860s creates a continuous record of bodily sensation attending to scale, timing, and source, helps not just to construct a subjectivity through emotion but to assert the materiality of the fictional world supporting that subjectivity. More important...
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The Right to Mobility in Adventure Fiction
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 290–296.
Published: 01 August 2009
... human right: the right to mobility. It starts by explaining how this right is articulated in the early modern period at the international geopolitical scale as the freedom of navigation. It then links the freedom of the seas to the empowered agency of Crusoe and fellow mariners across the history...
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Scenario Fiction and the Novel Claims of Insurance
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 410–429.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as a formal strategy of two contemporary realist novels engaged in updating the genre to present scales of crisis: Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) and Ben Lerner's 10:04 (2014). As these novels process new forms of risk in a time of epochal fracture, they likewise signal a conceptual break in realism's...
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The Rise of the State as a Sympathetic Liberal Subject in Hardy's The Woodlanders
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 62–85.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of compassion for rural folk, The Woodlanders undermines the project of sympathy on either an individual or national scale. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New York: Verso, 1991...
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Proust's Genies: In Search of Lost Time and Population Biology
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 482–501.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... The construct of the genie, I suggest, not only allows Proust to suture together sub-individual and supra-individual scales of analysis but also enables a model of change—both psychological and historical—that is neither simply agentic nor simply deterministic. Rather, the shifting demographics of mental...
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The Politics of Address in George Eliot's Fiction
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 64–83.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and erudite paratext, to acknowledge readers without delimiting their scale. Drawing on reading history and political literary theory, in particular the work of Jacques Rancière, the essay argues that this shift democratizes address. Democratic address capitalizes on the indiscriminate relationship between...
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Vection, Vertigo, and the Historical Novel
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., movement cannot always be identified as forward or backward, up or down, as self-motion or as the ambient motion of the world. His novels engage the question of large-scale epochal historical transitions through the micro-level of the sensory experience of movement. 11 In Smollett 's Humphrey...
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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
... that the difficulty inheres in the planetary scale itself. Concluding that all contemporary planetarities—like their early twentieth-century equivalents—are at least partly attempts to remake the world in our preferred image, the argument closes by considering a humbler alternative inspired by fleeting moments...
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Grounds for Collective Action
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 8–18.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Kinohi Nishikawa Abstract The Black Lives Matter movement experienced a groundswell of support in the summer of 2020. The scale of mobilization was staggering, with marches and rallies held in every corner of the country. Since then, support for the movement has dropped, and some see...
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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
... the contrary—that literary and societal forms are different from each other only in degree or scale—is, in an especially leveling sense, to rescind crucial differences between the force of depiction and world of force, which every lucid nuance of Powers's unique narrative style would resist. Copyright © 2022...
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Beckett, Atwood, and Postapocalyptic Tragicomedy
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 104–119.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jack Dudley Abstract Ecological catastrophe has challenged the contemporary novel to find forms that convey the scale and affective conditions of life amid looming planetary devastation. While sincere tragedy has been the dominant mode and tone of the novel's approach, recent scholarship has...
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Melville's Quixoticism and the Modern World-System
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
... is striking for its broadly scaled perspective, extending from the Americas across Europe to Asia, and locating the mid-nineteenth-century domination of the global South by North Atlantic nations like the United States and England in a history running back to the arrival of Spaniards in the New World...
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Make It Modern: The Lasting Form of a New Aesthetic
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., demotic, dialect, untranslatables), and figurative strategies (parataxis, variegated scales, mythmaking, and mythbusting) map the formal imaginary of transnational, international, and global politics. These terms are distinguished and historicized in the readings that make up the book, even as Vadde also...
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Narrative, Time, and Disaster
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 327–331.
Published: 01 August 2023
... studies—is immensely generative. But the centrality of time and scale to definitions of catastrophe in disaster studies would seem to militate against literary narratives' attentiveness to individual subjectivities, even—and especially—when narrating collective experiences. Rastogi's working definition...
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