...Timothy Wientzen DUFFY ENDA , The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism ( Durham : Duke UP , 2009 ), pp. 320 , cloth, $84.95 , paper, $23.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Reviews...

... the concupiscence of readers who turn the pages only to get to the end. The coach whose stages are compared to the breaks between chapters in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews becomes in Sterne's text the speeding post chaise, a new technology in the mid-eighteenth century, which carries Tristram in his flight from...

... the accumulation of detail, as through a kind of supercharged observation and modulations of narrative pace and speed. If taxonomy ends in an array, the novel's typicality manifests itself more phenomenologically and affectively, through sentiments and hard‐to‐define sensations that include those of decline...

... declares close reading to be “both subject and method” (10) of the book, and indeed, reading is the throughline that unites its chapters. We move from a discussion of the emergence of close reading, to a study of “Reading Machines” and “Speed Reading,” and finally to readings of specific elements...

... six months after the last event it depicts. This article focusses on Ali Smith's Autumn ( 2016 ) and Olivia Laing's Crudo: A Novel ( 2018 ), both of which were written and published with unusual speed to make them feel as contemporary as possible. Situating these novelistic experiments...

... thereby to disprove but merely to assert as not really applicable here the view that Paul Virilio incites: that the accelerating speed of transport is completely political and the French Revolution one primal scene of the inseparability of transportation and politics (“the political idea of nations...

..., and pass like dreams. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed—melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon the dials that registered my speed raced round faster and faster. . . . The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now. They merged at last into a kind of hysterical...

... the equation for general relativism again?" Einstein considered calling relativity the "theory of invariance" because the theory uses the absolute value of the speed of light to produce comprehensible calculations that will accurately describe the apparent alteration of shape, mass, energy, and time...

... information had a profound effect on its epoch: it increased the speed, regularity, and geographic reach of communication; it facilitated the development of new public infrastructure and a uniform system of addresses; it enabled the development of new genres of writing, new forms of literacy, new...

... largely by description, more vivid moments of uncertainty address the question of whether one is moving at all and, if so, at what speed and in what direction. We could call this the plot of vection . The latter term came to be used later in the nineteenth century to refer to sensory uncertainty about...

... into Insomniacs Lois Cucullu When in 1909 F. T. Marinetti declares the founding of futurism, a manifesto born by his own account of having pulled what in today’s vernacular would be an all-nighter, he does so by extolling “feverish insomnia” alongside “the beauty of speed” (251). Since then it has...

..., in different ways, point to the circulation of information via networks like the internet and Minitel as the driving force for the breakdown of reality. If the “healthy membrane between real and invented worlds” (84) has broken down, it is because of the speed with which technologies like the Minitel...

... moral indicators actually double as economic indicators. Con- sider for example the problem of speed and economy, a problem present from the first line when “Selden pause[s] in surprise” (Wharton 25). The morally inflected judgment of speed suffuses the text. Mrs. Trenor adjures the young...

... and globalization (which func- tion to speed up the novelizing process), are we now seeing the novel’s disappear- ance into formlessness? The novel’s triumph is its demise, the moment we are so thoroughly novelized that we no longer have use for the novel itself. The novel is for Bakhtin futuristic...

..., by aristocratic land-holders. Forster links commerce to urban London, to the motor-car and the accompanying increase in the speed of life, and to overly cheap or opulent houses. Money from commerce, however, was becoming inextricably linked to the production of nostalgic space, as Forster knew...

... the novel's advocacy of the abolition of flogging in the US Navy ( Hayford and Sealts 31 ). By contrast, bots operate at great speed and huge volume, producing unpredictable effects or, in the case of malware, untraceable consequences. To be sure, comparing and contrasting a print novel with a digital...

... gratification of temporality, if not in danger of complete disappearance, serve as mere prologue to speed, instantaneity, and the pornography of visuality, combined with generalized amnesia masquerading under the guise of the archiving of every random thought, text message, and Web crawl. After conquering...

... metropolitan speed and colonial stasis but undoes it. Asymmetrical connection points back to, and beyond, uneven development. This aspect of Joyce's modernism, like that associated with Joseph Conrad, allows us to read more deeply within Anglo-modernism so as to extend beyond it, thus discerning postcolonial...

... on speed. The socialist effort was to “opt out of the capitalist consumer culture by participating in alternative leisure and social networks as well as alternative print networks” (25). After a substantial introduction, there are six full chapters and a brief conclusion. The more than thirty pages...

... Galaxy? Zala's mind spun. (153-54) Here, the style simulates the speed with which details accumulate about those "not on the TF list," a speed that over time becomes physically hurtful, unbearable. The alternations of energetic action and enervated submission or withdrawal happen...