... in the public sphere, which in the Turkish case has come to imply a realm that belongs to the state or its institutions ( kamu ), a strictly masculine space. Not being able to manifest herself within social structures, she fails to take part in the network of actual give-and-take that defines all exchanges...

... of emancipation take him to propose a biological substratum as the irreducible site of a political affirmation. Thus Arguedas provides a thoroughly developed notion of positive biopolitics that has the potential to ground other engagements of colonial voices with the larger sphere of political domination. ©...

...David A. P. Womble Abstract This essay argues that the Victorian novel recast the cognitive deficiencies associated with the mass as necessary traits for inhabiting a statistically rendered public sphere. In order to attribute personhood to an influx of potentially asocial bodies that fell short...

... of the relation between private and public spheres. Recent Israeli literature and film consequently invite us to rethink the stylistic preoccupation of contemporary theories of world literature by asking how these media use aesthetic figures to give form to the concepts of freedom, necessity, and knowledge...

... in a transformed public sphere. In Arthur Mervyn , the yellow fever epidemic works as a fantasy of exposure, an impossible kind of social transparency that ultimately serves as a map for comprehending the mysterious workings of a “connected age.” © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Works...

...Madigan Haley This essay approaches the global as an ethos emergent within contemporary fiction, taking J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) as its primary example. Recent accounts of global or world literature have generally considered these solely as spheres of circulation, while dominant accounts...

... of political and disciplinary regimes. What interests do colonial and liberal states share in the regulation of negative affect, even at the expense of putatively central liberal doctrines, such as freedom of speech? And how was the historical formation of a colonial public sphere involved in the rise...

...Scott Selisker Melley Timothy , The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2012 ) , pp. 304, paper , $26.95 . Szalay Michael , Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2012 ) , pp...

..." citizen. Indeed, novels in particular provided a convenient testing ground for republican theory, Moscovici argues. Under the forces of realism, the breakdown in the division between a masculine, public sphere and a feminine, private sphere takes center stage. Building on feminist readings...

...KARIN WESTMAN MELBA CUDDY-KEANE, Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere . New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. pp. 237, $60.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Woolf in the World AIELBA CUVDY-KEANE, Virginia Woos the Infellecfunl, nnd fhe Public...

... arguments but the terms in which they helped to construct politically committed counterpublics. These authors, he argues, in “orienting themselves to the law's public sphere,” create a unique form of reception, one that allows the public to “endow these texts with the power to summon resistance in their own...

... hands, such various terms and concepts as social space, the public sphere, the home, acquire new significance as they are routed through a highly detailed genealogy of a histor- ically new form of residence. Combining exhaustive and original archival research, theoret- ical brilliance...

... from mass culture by a “great divide.” According to this story, elite writers of the period watched the rise of new commercialized forms of entertainment and communication with alarm, fearing the capac- ity of these forms to fracture and disperse a unified public sphere. In Frantic Panoramas...

... understands the role of emotion in negotiating modernity's me- diated public sphere? To answer these questions, my argument begins with the simple observation that much of the slapstick comedy of the novel comes at the expense of Miss Lonelyhearts's project of sympathetic publicity. I further argue...

... prescient but also more passionate in their analysis of crowds than other works of the period. One of the book's great strengths is its ability to demonstrate how ideas about the "public sphere" in the early nineteenth century were heterogeneous and contestatory-a fact that often escapes notice...

... and threatening” ( 186 ). 32 For the public sphere as a realm of rational-critical debate, see Habermas chap. 1. For the public sphere as a realm of Arendtian world-making, see Warner, Publics chaps. 1 and 2 . 33 Though Douglass continued to publish his newspaper through the 1850s...

... of its class-bound privileging of the private sphere, Gaskell aspired to write a wholly different kind of fiction. Of course, when nineteenth-century novelists tried to supplant older genres by mixing them in new ways, they often sought to conceal the seams of such hybrids. 11 Like other Condition...

... Man of Feeling . 1805. London: R. Bentley, 1832 . Gonda , Caroline . Reading Daughters’ Fictions 1709–1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996 . Habermas , Jürgen . The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry...

... of the crowd in American literature. Drawing heavily on Jurgen Habermas's account of the historical facticity as well as the normative potential of a "critical rational" "public sphere," Esteve argues that the Arneri- can writers between 1840 and 1934 who figured crowds prominently did so...

... betrayal”: Forced economic dependence, intellectual debasement, sexual and physical abuse, denial of rights just then being deemed universally human, and delegitimation within the developing lib­eral public sphere shaped the early national oppression of women and other groups excluded...