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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 326–351.
Published: 01 November 2004
... , Anthony . Gentlemen Capitalists: British Imperialism in Southeast Asia, 1770–1890 . London: Tauris, 1998 . Seeing the Animal: Colonial Space and
Movement in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
SANJAY KRISHNAN
But there are degrees of feeling-the muffled, the faint...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 245–267.
Published: 01 August 2006
... . “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault’s Thought . Ed. Paul Rabinow. London: Penguin, 1984 . Foucault , Michel . “Of Other Spaces.” Trans. Jay Miskowiec. Diacritics 16 ( 1986 ): 22 –27. Foucault , Michel . “On the Genealogy of Ethics...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 5–9.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., this essay uses the concepts of globalectics, heterotopia, liminality, and heteroglossia to argue that the novel is the ultimate heterotopia, containing in itself or rather reflecting in a more holistic manner than probably any other genre all the other spaces of the economy, politics, culture, values...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 August 2023
... theory,” a set of governing axioms about life in outer space that make a necessary, inescapable hostility between different forms of organized life the fundamental political fact of the cosmos. This article argues that Carl Schmitt's political theory—his critique of liberalism, his investment...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 155–159.
Published: 01 May 2022
... a political geography that is only located outside borders, states, and nations by being simultaneously within them” (4). This inside-outside “political geography” is what Hart terms the “extraterritorial”: spaces—airports, maritime space, free trade zones, refugee camps, the little sovereign bubble...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 May 2016
... foundation” (149). To make this point, Kant offers in Critique of Judgment one of the earliest images of logarithmically continuous space in modern Western literature. Describing “proportionately greater units” from man to tree to mountain to “the earth's diameter” to “the Milky Way...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... in time and space that is “outside the bounds of humanity.” At a time when ideas of black kinlessness still had potency in US law and society, Du Bois's strange representation of blackness as a fourth dimension in space is counterintuitive. Why forgo the conventional novelistic categories of family...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 167–185.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon This article turns to the space of the colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to offer an alternative theory of the novel—one that defines colonial geographies as constitutive of the novel as a genre rather than as marginal and inessential. In looking...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 547–565.
Published: 01 November 2022
... in the high‐tech America of “research and development” are pitted against the contrasting affect, emphatically detached in space and time, of savage sensory deprivation suffered by an Arab American US citizen as jihadist prisoner in Beirut. Only at the eleventh hour of plot time is this man's plight revealed...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Yoon Sun Lee Abstract Although accounts of the realist novel have not always adequately examined the experience of movement through space, this embodied epistemology is critical to the genre's development. Drawing on the physiology of perception as investigated by Erasmus Darwin and others, Scott...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 317–340.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... Mansfield Park initially offers its east room as a spatial analogue for Fanny Price's interior, but it gradually revokes narrative access to the space in order to defer wholly to external status markers. Likewise, Villette 's Lucy Snowe creates architectural constructions as a means of representing her...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... with emergent forms of life in spaces where ideological forces have ceded to material ones. The speculative mutations in these texts give body to various forms of emergent, unconceptualized, or fantastic subjectivities, homologous with but not reducible to the “real” mutations taking place in South African...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Laura Strout Abstract What insights into literary realism can be found by dwelling in the empty rooms and abandoned spaces of Bleak House , a novel more often read for its representation of overcrowded environments? Traveling between and imaginatively inhabiting empty houses of Charles Dickens's...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Daniel Williams This essay considers the significance of rumor in the work of Thomas Hardy, anchoring its claims in a reading of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). I argue that rumor conditions the narrative movement of this novel through its linked operations in social space and bodily sensation...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 438–452.
Published: 01 November 2013
... this transition from general ideas to their individualized incarnations, it explores the way in which the affective investment necessary for this conversion depends on a prolonged experience of shared time and space. By showing how the novel extends to written documents themselves the effects of shared time...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Alexandra Neel This article examines the spaces still life in Frankenstein , arguing that Mary Shelley draws on this rich visual tradition from its humblest manifestations in the painting of food to its most conceptual in its explorations of light, human perception, and death. Following Norman...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 387–392.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... In both cases, the tic or repeated, jarring detail reorganizes the realist space momentarily in the mode of perversity, reopening its narrative frame to discordant echoes from the literary past (satire) and future (modernism). The symptom is thus mobilized in its specificity to refuse the etiological...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 72–77.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and ends with “Reader, I married him.” We regard “discontinuous continuity” as a “cornerstone of twentieth-century art” (Keith Cohen). In the larger project from which this essay is drawn, I argue that the Victorian periodical is a technology of public space in much the same way as we view the railroad...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 326–331.
Published: 01 August 2009
... interested only in filling space, the Victorian reviewer emerges as centrally concerned with the novel as a machine for particular affects—and with how (and with what distortions) those affects, emerging over long periods of time and text, could be reproduced in miniature. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 November 2009
... relationships, some voluntary and some coercive, including the law, the space of the city, gossip, class, disease, philanthropy, and kinship. These various principles of interconnection are both separate and overlapping: each has its own logic, but each is also capable of connecting the same groups...
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