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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 158–180.
Published: 01 August 2004
...: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991 . Edwards , P.D. Some Mid-Victorian Thrillers: The Sensation Novel, Its Friends and Its Foes . St. Lucia: U of Queensland P, 1971 . Elam , Diane . “White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 343–349.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., and Georges Bataille—fascinated with
the political potential of the grotesque. Given the saturation of the grotesque in the mod-
ernist avant-garde and the various forms of modernist sensationalism within modernity’s
spectacular culture (one that would join, say, J. M. W. Turner as seen by Jonathan Crary...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 67–87.
Published: 01 May 2011
... differentiated between sensationalism and its
respected rival, realism, will clarify the advantages of Oliphant’s generic innova-
tions (“Sensation” 260).10 A subject of contention in the 1860s, sensation fiction was
9 Shirley Jones and Marlene Tromp have written helpful studies of the implications...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 429–448.
Published: 01 November 2016
... their American misreaders, reimagining social nightmares as pleasant fantasies. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Charles Dickens George Du Maurier advertising sensationalism reception As feminist criticism has stressed, Victorian fiction often seems so narrowly focused on affirming...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 451–459.
Published: 01 November 2009
... . Nobody's Story: Women Writers in the Marketplace . Berkeley: U of California P, 1995 . Hughes , Linda K. , and Lund Michael. The Victorian Serial . Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1991 . Kendrick , Walter M. “The Sensationalism of The Woman in White.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 32...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the tradition of sensationalized and feminized representations of East End life.
This climate marks the first appearance of Charles Booth's empiricist studies, which are
NOVEL I FALL 2007
less a watershed than a culmination of the process of social abstraction begun with the
work...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 145–148.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., are shaped by
sensationalism. And her discussion of the intersection of aesthetics and theories of social
evolution and degeneration in Meredith draws on Francis Galton’s treatise on eugenics,
Hereditary Genius. Here and throughout her project, she reflects especially on how changing
attitudes toward...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2021
... sincerely experienced, for a moral conversion. But this is not what the chapter set out to claim. Writing about war and violence presents some unusual hazards, and Terrible Beauty is noticeably clear-sighted about risks that extend from crypto-pornographic sensationalism to thought-annihilating...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 325–329.
Published: 01 August 2014
... necessary complemen-
tarity of Wilde’s aestheticist sensationalism and Wells’s positivistic and ideological discur-
siveness. Measured against the compositional imperative to narrate—in the sense Luka´cs
developed in his criticism from the 1930s on—neither author achieves, Esty acknowledges,
the ‘‘great...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the contrary: the cornerstone of domestic fiction, its courtship plot, founders for nearly the entire novel. This disruption of romance cannot be understood simply as a spillover of sensationalism from the political plot, since political melodramas rarely featured the obstruction of erotic union. 23 Impeded...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 196–211.
Published: 01 August 2000
... . New York: Bantam, 1985 . Cvetkovich , Ann . Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992 . Deleuze , Gilles . “Coldness and Cruelty.” Masochism . Trans. Jean McNeil. New York: Zone Books, 1991 . 9 –138. Dickens...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 112–134.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992 . Deleuze , Gilles . Difference and Repetition . Trans. Paul Patton. New York: Columbia UP, 1994 . Deleuze , Gilles . The Logic of Sense . Trans. Mark Lester and Charles Stivale. Ed...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 400–409.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and
death in England was ahead of and markedly different from the sensationalized
novels of Indian immigration to the West produced by later US-based writers such
as Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Divakaruni, and others. On the other hand, her post-
humously published novel Bombay Tiger (2008), written...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 August 2016
... ( Weissman ). 4 Duganne has discussed Meiselas in a related way; she has mobilized John Berger 's idea of an “alternative photographic practice” ( About Looking 60 ) to argue that Meiselas's photographs create a “living context,” thus avoiding sensationalism and effectively becoming part...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 406–424.
Published: 01 November 2019
... for its proclivity toward sensationalism. For some reviewers, Limits to Growth merely suggested another exercise in producing speculative fiction, however aggrandized or prosaic. The New York Times Book Review called it “[l]ess than pseudoscience and little more than polemical fiction” ( Passell...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 135–157.
Published: 01 August 2004
...
very little risk to valuable property. In reading his novel as an indictment of the
Married Women's Property Act, we find that, while he initially seems to sub-
scribe to the brand of criticism that sensationalizes the threat of women as prop-
erty owners, he ends up taking the far more effective...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 313–337.
Published: 01 November 2001
... frames of
sensationalism or sentimentalism that Crane's audience typically would have
used to make sense of images of the destitute he describes. "Experiment" thus
performs a rhetorical sleight-of-hand, introducing disconcerting, potentially
shocking images (distended, disaggregated bodies...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 276–300.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of the waning
American century, Franzen’s The Corrections. Published in 2001, this sensationally
popular novel drew on short pieces Franzen had published in the 1990s and an
even larger-scale unpublished social novel; its final form was drafted in the year
2000 (Heller). But what would seem to be its...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 93–118.
Published: 01 May 1999
... who use a standard of
value to read in them their relative worth. When we first meet Lucinda, whose
body is sensationally visible, it seems that this body must be read according to
the same standards of value: her beautiful exterior hides not a lack of depth, but
the bad depth of a murderer...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 236–261.
Published: 01 August 2016
... the significance of the deliberately out-of-sync timing that marks Farah's intervention. He wants to distinguish his historical realism from journalism about Africa and genre fiction, types of discourse that share an affinity with each other and a sensationalizing tendency. The repeated use of anticlimax...
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