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.... This fiction of failure also has a stake in the state's future. This essay considers how recent novels use civil wars as a setting for generic experimentation. It offers a truncated genealogy of literary interest in state crisis to demonstrate how fiction collaborates with political scientific scholarship...

...Anick S. Rolland Abstract Reconsidering Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman in view of newly discovered textual discrepancies between editions and critical scholarship, this essay makes a necessary intervention in the reading tradition of the rape-fall-punishment triad...

... with recent institutionalist scholarship from the social sciences and makes Nostromo a significant text in the history of the modern novel's engagement with collectivity. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Character institution(s) bildungsroman The narrator of Joseph Conrad's...

... in Murakami's fiction, I suggest that we might draw from theories of reader response figured in scholarship on “surface reading” and also on the idea of “twofoldness” in aesthetic apprehension theorized by Richard Wollheim. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 ethics alterity mimesis...

.... This article focuses on literary portraiture in the Jesus novel, a genre of historical fiction that emerged independently in different national literatures from the 1830s onward alongside several parallel developments, including the secularization of biblical scholarship, the rediscovery of early Christian...

... Dracula views as exotic is the domestic, the home, sexuality, and marriage. Dracula , this is to say, is not about heterosexual marriage threatened or perverted but about its successful fulfillment. If Dracula is written from the perspective of a closeted gay man, as much scholarship contends...

... examined Le manoir mystérieux in the wider context of novelistic production in Quebec in the late nineteenth century. Drawing from recent scholarship in the fields of book history and print culture, this article proposes that a close examination of Le manoir mystérieux' s contents, together...

...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...

...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...

...) and worlding (in making new ways of seeing, knowing, thinking, and being palpable to those worlds). After providing a brief survey of realism's critical reception and some postulates for future scholarship, this introduction lays out the arc of the special issue. Works Cited Agathocleous Tanya...

... be “approved” by the list’s editors). (13) Quite an incestuous reading affair. Reading this in many respects interesting book, one can form the impression that Nabokov scholarship, since its “institutionalization” in American Slavic departments in the 1960s, has mutated into a sort of Glasperlenspiel...

... of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), pp. 192, $39.95. Arguing that twentieth-century scholarship on The Scarlet Letter has marginalized wom- en's critical voices in ways that echo the treatment of Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's novel, Jamie...

...) Jones traces this paradigm of current Victorian scholarship back to the Victorian sensation novel, which operates according to the same parameters. As she formulates it, these “novels with a secret” also engage the reader in “a fantasy of knowingness in which suspense and uncertainty anticipate...

... of it. This lack of engagement is perplexing because mud7 of this scholarship bears directly on the archval material Briickner analyzes as well as the argu- ments he makes about this material. Let me take one example that I found especially confus- ing. In his chapter on geography textbooks, Bruckner notes...

... the 1970s are worn out or at least in need of invigoration and friendly competition from current scholarship in the hard sciences. Tony E. Jackson’s first book,The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce (1994), offered well-informed analysis...

... Ostrowski puts it in his new book, Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America (13). Ostrowski has made a substantial contribution to scholarship. For several decades, the cultural history of punishment has been a major topic for historicist literary criticism. In the wake of Michel...

... in the Twentieth Century (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000), pp. 320, cloth, $59.50, paper, $19.50. When reading war scholarship, one usually encounters two types of projects: those that marvel at the ingenuity and strategy of war's genius generals and those who write in hopes...

.... The question of theory is double. Current scholarship on Israel/Palestine is indeed often informed by theoretical discussions, mainly postcolonial studies, deconstruction, and feminism, but by and large it simply applies such theoretical concepts to the texts it examines and eschews the more difficult task...

... of modern Hebrew fiction and that further accentuate the dominance of male writers in its canon. To do so, she relies on feminist scholarship—mainly on the works of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler—to develop the notion of “intersexual dialogue” as “an indeterminate space between sexes and texts...

...John Cayley Martin Paul Eve , Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2019 ), pp. 272 , paper, $25.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Any of us who may have been anxious...