...JOHN MARX NICHOLAS DALY, Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004), pp. 170, cloth, $75.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Pleasures of Sex and Tech NICHOLAS DALY, Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1 860-2 000...

...Andrew J. Counter Abstract George Sand's feminist novels of the 1830s often seem to have a “problem” with sex, or to view sex as a problem. In them, heterosexual sex often appears disempowering for women and therefore politically unpalatable; worse, heterosexual desire itself emerges...

... dialogic, suggesting yet another stage in the management of same-sex intimacies and their representations. In arguing for sapphic form as an underpinning of the novel's domestic subject, I hope to suggest that form does function as novelistic content and that the history of sexuality—in the novel...

... and sustains the millennial Jane Austen mania. Adapting Austen's narratives more freely than did the 1990s versions, these films hope to capture the same crossover, multigenerational, mixed-sex audience yet also seek to market Austen for a new mass cohort of teenaged girls. Updating the stars' images...

... the people who read his novels and through the way he constructs characters within them. As twenty-first-century readers, we may assume that there have always been adults-only books, and that we recognize them when we see them because they foreground things like sex and formal complexity while minimizing...

... (the article terms such embodiment “co‐located”). It then develops a Lacanian analysis of the solution modeled by Osmond to the wrong body problem: “translocated embodiment,” in which a subject assumes as their body a sexed form other than their physical person. The second half of the article explores...

...KATHY ALEXIS PSOMIADES Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Works Cited Cohen , William A. Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction . Durham: Duke UP, 1996 . Diamond , Alan , ed. The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine: A Centennial Reappraisal . Cambridge...

... . “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex.” Toward an Anthropology of Women . Ed. R. Reitner Rayna. New York: Monthly Review, 1975 . 157 –210. Trollope , Anthony . He Knew He Was Right . 1868. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988 . Tylor , Edward B. Primitive Culture...

..." in relation to, on one hand, ideological questions of genre and identity that domi- nated many twentieth-century writers' narrative reformulations and, on the other, historical and sociolinguistic specificities concerning what he terms "same-sex sexualities" (a slightly clunky formulation that he...

..." in relation to, on one hand, ideological questions of genre and identity that domi- nated many twentieth-century writers' narrative reformulations and, on the other, historical and sociolinguistic specificities concerning what he terms "same-sex sexualities" (a slightly clunky formulation that he...

...John Kucich Jarvis Claire , Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2016 ), pp. xv + 201 , cloth, $49.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 Although we have heard a great deal over the past few decades about how best...

... identity and sexual propriety. Ths "binding phallic logic," which "persists even within the broad cul- tural dismantling of traditional sex roles," is evidence, Dore claims, that literature stands separate from and sometimes in an ambivalent relation to political ideology (5). In this at- tempt...

... that women's "difference" must be represented-that women necessarily care about different issues and have different perspectives. For the paritaires, women span the same range of identities and viewpoints as men. Their point is simply that women constitute one half of a universal sex- ual divide...

... HARZEWSKI, Chick Lit and Postfeminism (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2011), pp. 264, cloth, $55.00, paper, $19.50. Shoe meets girl meets boy meets shoe. Shoes trump men. Men are shoes. Shoes are porn, of a charming sort. Sex is in the city. Austen’s in the house. Love of Jane Austen is de rigueur...

... . Hausman , Bernice L. “Sex before Gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Evolutionary Paradigm of Utopia.” Feminist Studies 24 (Fall 1998 ): 489 –510. Hedges , Elaine . “Afterword.” The Yellow Wallpaper . New York: Feminist P, 1973 . Hedges , Elaine . “‘Out at Last...

.... By focusing on "strong, complex, and socially acknowledged bonds between women" (22), Marcus recasts our sense of Victorian women's intimate lives, offers a new genealogy for same-sex relations in the present, and challenges essential paradigms in queer studies. Behoeen Women offers the satisfactions...

... than rigorously socialistic. The final chapter, “Free Love, Free Print: Sex Radicalism, Censorship, and the Biopolitical Turn,” notes that sex radicalism was the center of a “waning, yet enduring radical cause of free print” that had to cope with censorship (258). Two novels of 1895, Grant Allen's...

... but also feels" (334). I call attention at the outset to James's use of this im- age of gender symmetry, his notion that the relation between two men could be used to illustrate the problem of self-relation, because it begins to suggest the way in which same-sex relations might be seen as a formal...

..., and intellect, The Diasporan Self, despite its protestations against such claims, risks reducing gender to essentialist categories. While textual androgyny is a significant departure from these earlier arguments, chapter 6 gives us a more vexed examination of homosexuality and same-sex desire...

...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...