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...) but also multiple smart-city partnerships between the Lagos government and Chinese as well as Dubai-based corporate and state administrative concerns. Lagoon echoes predictable questions about the politics of data gathering involved in urban renewal and development. As is typical in all manner...

... a great deal of his time with the concept of the “zone” as theorized by Keller Easterling. The “zone” marks precisely the place where state and capital meet in a fully coordinated way: such free-trade zones, the “smart city” of Songdo in South Korea, for example, embody the state's infinite flexibility...

... The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Cre- ative Writing, I expected to engage a smart (Harvard University Press) straightforward (1947–2000) literary history, Foucauldian looks at all the important creative writing pro- grams, how they originated and developed, what they say about...

...- brake into a prosperous city, is the result of free political institutions; not being very deep in such matters, a more obvious cause suggested itself to me, in the un- ceasing goad which necessity applies to industry in this country, and in the absence of all resource for the idle. During...

... 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...

... and accountability” (21). The following four chapters and epilogue—focusing respectively on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park , James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner , Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities , William Godwin's Caleb Williams , and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein —trace...

...: Macmillan, 1950 . Chow , Rey . The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work . Durham: Duke UP, 2006 . Daudet , Léon . La Guerre Totale . Paris: Nouvelle Librairie Nationale, 1918 . Grayling , A. C. Among the Dead Cities: The History...

... . Bond , Horace Mann . “What the Army ‘Intelligence’ Tests Measured.” Opportunity 2 . 19 ( 1924 ): 197 –202. Busby , Mark . Ralph Ellison . Boston: Twayne, 1991 . Butler , Robert . “The City as Psychological Frontier in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Charles Johnson's Faith...

... within the "fictitious system." Robert Martin and George Knightley, "high farm- ers" both, carry on with their schemes for agricultural improvements as if there were no tomorrow; there is no hint of collapsing fortunes among the town's citi- zens, while life in Highbury transpires in immemorial...

...Jonathan H. Grossman Critics have long conceded that the characters in A Tale of Two Cities are noticeably not fleshed out as individuals by the historical context of the French Revolution, and recently we have begun to figure out why: Dickens is depicting the French Revolution as a struggle...

... Biopolitans: Wartime Colonial Cosmopolis in Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City and J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun .” Journal of Narrative Theory 39 . 3 ( 2009 ): 280 – 304 . Lee Chang-rae . On Such a Full Sea . New York : Riverhead , 2014 . Luckhurst Roger . “The Angle...

... the moral and physical ailments of their inhabitants. Similarly, the life of the city's buildings appears to merge into the life of its population. The city itself suffers the effects of urban pollution: “Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking” (420...

... in a Thousand Cities . Greenwich : Fawcett , 1960 . Auden W. H. Letter to Patricia Highsmith . n.d. Scrapbook 1, Box B4–b2–SCR1 . Patricia Highsmith Papers . Swiss Literary Archives , Bern . Berlant Lauren . The Female Complaint . Durham : Duke UP , 2008 . Booth Wayne C...

...-Victorian novel needs to be understood, as does its occlusion, as an effacement of the agency and influence of Chartist cultural energy (Vargo). Gaskell knew many Manchester mill workers in her capacity as a minister’s wife in that city. She also knew the autodidact and prolific writer Bamford quite...

... twentieth century, the accelerating pace of technological change made inexpensive editions more and more readily avail- able; J. M. Dent's Everyman's Library Series, founded in 1906, took its name not only from the medieval morality play but from the newly literate democratic citi- zen whom Dent...

... the Ohio valley, Rice was taking his new Jim Crow act east, while the Beechers were in Hartford, readying their wagon for Cincinnati, a city Rice had recently set ablaze with Jim Crow fe- ver. The Beechers passed through New York and Philadelphia just as Rice was rolling up the Atlantic coast...

... trilogy beginning with My Brilliant Friend (2009). In Mexico, Juan Villoro and Álvaro Enrigue place themselves at a sharp angle to the history of Latin American literature; in Argentina, Pola Oloixarac's Savage Theories (2008) is an extremely smart novel of the Theory Generation. In Russia, the poet...