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Desiring Difference: Sympathy and Sensibility in Jane Eyre
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 112–134.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995 . Jones , Chris . Radical Sensibility: Lectures and Ideas in the 1790s . New York: Routledge, 1993 . Kaplan , Fred . Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature . Princeton...
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An Incalculable Rupture? The Aesthetics and Politics of Postcolonial Fiction
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 242–260.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of politics is shaped first and foremost by a sustained inquiry into the poetics of sense, or an aisthesis (the experience of sense, sensation, and sensibility), I try to bridge the conceptual gap he establishes between the sensible of aesthetics and the sensible of politics. Using a postcolonial novel, Tahar...
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The Sociology of the Novel: George Eliot's Strangers
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 538–545.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., and George Eliot's Middlemarch stakes its claim as a novel not only alongside, but also beyond, sensibilities and modes sociological, that other explorer of the “new social continent.” This essay shows that the novel's desire to secure its difference from sociological practices is strong enough to write...
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National Myth, Transnational Memory: Ondaatje's Archival Method
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Aarthi Vadde This essay proposes that Michael Ondaatje's novels develop an archival method that adapts the historical novel to the globalized era. Where Georg Lukács argued that the classical historical novel awakened national sensibility through the creation of psychologically complex characters...
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Virginia Woolf, Anechoic Architecture, and the Acoustic Hermeneutic
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Steve Nathaniel Abstract This article describes Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with acoustics and its relationship both to her writing process and to the development of sensibility that she narrativizes in The Waves . It situates Woolf's theoretical and fictional models of listening with respect...
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Beckett, Atwood, and Postapocalyptic Tragicomedy
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 104–119.
Published: 01 May 2021
... explored the possibilities of the comic, which presents its own limitations and ethical problems. This article argues that Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake moves past these limitations of genre and tone through engagements with the more complicated tragicomic sensibility of Samuel Beckett. The tragicomic...
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Constructing Attachment: Persistent and Elided Speech in Jane Austen's Novels
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 375–398.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and minor characters as well as the complex relations between characters. Using computational tools alongside close analysis of scenes in Pride and Prejudice , Emma , Sense and Sensibility , and Mansfield Park , I identify two recurrent features in the representation of direct speech across Austen's novels...
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Desire and Genre in The Female Quixote
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 31–46.
Published: 01 May 2011
... readers a lesson about the dangers of interpreting desire according to the rules of realistic writing. Instead of issuing a late warning about the dangers of romance reading, Lennox issues an early warning about the possibility that novel reading might coarsen sensibilities by reducing desire...
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Teaching Old Readers New Tricks: Jack London's Interspecies Ethics
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Fang to explore the perspective of a body that is intimately connected to its surrounding environment. London's preoccupation with canine embodiment, I propose, informs his human-centered novel Martin Eden, which suggests the ethical significance of physical sensibilities that humans share with animals...
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Resistance on the Circuit: The Novel in the Age of the Post
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 169–175.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as well as news about novels; among familiar correspondents, the post increased the buzz about novels. Through a reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility , this article shows how the writing, posting, arrival, and overseeing of letters in this novel unfolds in ways the characters cannot control...
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American Entrapments: Taxonomic Capture in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 26–48.
Published: 01 May 2016
... ( nomos ) for ordering ( taxis ) the sensible—haunted by a constitutive blindness. Set in 1805, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, Cooper's novel poses the question of territory at a time when it remained to be seen how the young nation would be changed by the acquisition of the vast expanse...
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Mediation, Reading, and Yorick's Sentimental Vehicle
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 486–503.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kyoko Takanashi Taking Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey as a case study, this article explores how mid-eighteenth-century novels of sensibility theorized mediation—and by extension, the very act of reading. Sentimental fiction draws attention to the instability of individual feeling...
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Rancière’s Style
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 284–300.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of capital's logic of equivalence. I then explore the sensibilities that arise from Rancière's adoption of free indirect discourse as part and parcel of his project of political emancipation. I conclude by showing how Rancière's turn to style offers a critique of political authority through a reimagining...
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Weaving Democracy
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 529–532.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... For Keats, the interwoven fabric that constitutes a poem brings into being a multiple community of existing poems, fragments of sound like birdsong, remembered images and words, and poems only entertained in reveries. This perception of the whole sensible fabric of existence underlying poetic sensibility...
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Once More, with Feeling
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 291–294.
Published: 01 November 2005
...LORRI NANDREA PAUL GORING, The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005), pp. 222, $75.00 Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Reviews
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Beats Go On
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Yoon Sun Lee Amit S. Yahav , Feeling Time: Duration, the Novel, and Eighteenth-Century Sensibility ( Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2018 ), pp. 208 , cloth, $59.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 As a genre the novel has always been understood to hold time...
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Modern Masculinities
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 163–166.
Published: 01 May 2009
... authored by, about, and for women.
Yet Kramp’s focus on the “dialectical process of gender formation” reenvisions this tradi-
tion of English fiction, a body of courtship narratives whose heroines, critics have long
argued, possess the sensibility and literacy that have come to define the modern...
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Novel Objects, Virtual Subjects
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 May 2012
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of subject-formation in eighteenth-century novels, producing prototypes for subjects that
only later become the patients of psychoanalysis. Chapter 2 reads Clarissa as evidence of the
fetishistic quality of novels of sensibility. By participating in the libertine’s drive to “make
a psychological...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 187–195.
Published: 01 August 2014
... Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation . Trans. Ross Kristin . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1991 . ———. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible . Trans. Rockhill Gabriel . London : Continuum , 2004 . ———. The Politics of Literature . Trans. Rose...
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“The Glorious Lust of Doing Good”: Tom Jones and the Virtues of Sexuality
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 165–192.
Published: 01 November 2005
...PAUL KELLEHER Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Works Cited Barker-Benfield , G. J. The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992 . Battestin , Martin C. “Fielding’s Definition of Wisdom: Some Functions...
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