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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 44–66.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Laura Elizabeth Ludtke Abstract This essay offers a transgeneric reading of Graham Greene's 1943 novel The Ministry of Fear , first tracing the emergence of spy fiction from invasion fiction at the end of the nineteenth century and then establishing William Le Queux's influence on the culture...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2021
...—is interesting and revealing. The scope is ambitious, and the chapters are organized around genres, some recognizable—thrillers and spy fiction—and some new: the Muslim misery memoir. Perhaps the most interesting and revealing chapter is the one that brings together the reading of Updike's The Terrorist...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 231–257.
Published: 01 November 2002
... assimilation, a success both materially and cultur-
ally. Second, Henry is a spy, not a detective. Individuals hire detectives; states
hire spies. The work of a spy usually has national, even international, conse-
quences. As Deborah Banner has argued in her study of spy fiction, spy protago-
nists...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 302–305.
Published: 01 August 2013
... a fictional
derring-do memoir that this war-hero parent wrote about his time in Special Operations,
and the protagonist of William Boyd’s Restless is learning of her Russian mother’s war-
time career as a spy. Meanwhile, the war-minded children of Michael Frayn’s Spies and
Georgina Harding’s The Spy...
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 133–134.
Published: 01 May 2005
...NICHOLAS DALY CAROLINE REITZ, Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2004), pp. 184, cloth, $59.95, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 The Empire and the Police
CAROLINE REITZ, Detecting...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 May 2021
... accounts have noticed Kim 's generic complexity. Zohreh Sullivan calls the novel “at once a spy thriller, a picaresque adventure story, a maturation story, and a quest romance” ( 148 ), while Suleri finds in the novel echoes of journalism as well as “nineteenth-century adventure and detective fiction...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., Inc. 2012 Duke University Press McMURRAN MARY HELEN , The Spread of Novels: Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century ( Princeton : Princeton UP , 2010 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $65.00 , paper $27.95 . The Novel’s International Nationalism
mary helen...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 281–285.
Published: 01 August 2015
...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...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 175–195.
Published: 01 August 2000
...CAROLINE REITZ Bad Cop/Good Cop: Godwin, Mill and the
Imperial Origins of the English Detective
CAROLINE REITZ
Our understanding of detective fiction as a strictly domestic genre takes its cue
from the standard line...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 323–325.
Published: 01 August 2019
... the trope of Nazism becomes unmoored from its specificity and generalized as part of a Benjaminian philosophy of history, where the global Latin American novel serves as a grounding point for the dialectic between civilization and barbarism. Bolaño's fictional encyclopedia of fascist writers, according...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 550–554.
Published: 01 November 2016
... —one more similar to the various kinds of self-consciously lying or ironic fictions of the late 1780s—for example, Eliza Haywood's A Spy upon the Conjurer (1724). The enterprise of presenting an impossible world in the language of scientific empirical realism in order to produce the sensation...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 434–452.
Published: 01 November 2001
... Watching God. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
Jacobs, Karen. "From 'Spy-glass' to 'Horizon': Tracking the Anthropological Gaze in Zora
Neale Hurston." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 30 (1997): 329-60.
Johnson, Barbara. A World of Difference. Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.
Kaplan, Carla. "The Erotics...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
... essay interrogates this assumption about the hegemony of alienated control as a framework for making fictions. Diary of a Bad Year and Satin Island are riven by two intertwined problems that arise with this assumption. The first is a literary problem about narrative form: how to narrativize a world...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 November 2012
...—and elicit—practical imagination and commonsense
solutions rather than ethical determinations and philosophical quandaries. Defoe’s adven-
ture poetics are precursors for other kinds of genres in which problem solving is a central
feature, such as spy novels and detective fiction, but these land-based...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 393–399.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Kate Flint Photographers tend to come off very badly in contemporary fiction—portrayed as emotionally warped, as voyeurs, or as exploitative, they are seen not as artists but as operating a piece of technology. Their photographs are understood in referential rather than imaginative terms...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 483–486.
Published: 01 November 2012
... discussion of the early American novel’s
meta-literary dimensions (a tendency to reflect on, or include scenes depicting, the moral
value of novel reading) to suggest that seduction fiction enters into the service of what
would later be known as “realism”: by adapting the discursive practices...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2019
... “the contradictory makings of Spain as a nation and as an empire” (84). Quixote's delusion, Ma argues, is not founded on a mere confusion of romantic fiction and historical fact but specifically on a belief in the illogical historical claims and romantic myths that gird the material development of the Spanish Empire...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 190–207.
Published: 01 August 2015
... otherwise be lost—to refind its expression. Fonty, like Don Quixote and Emma Bovary (not to mention the numerous other novels, such as Northanger Abbey and Lord Jim , whose main characters are subject to Bovaryism), lives partly in a fictional world and partly in a realist-historical time and space...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 52–76.
Published: 01 August 2007
... . Ed. Dennis D. Moore Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1995 . Cooper , James Fenimore . The Spy . Ed. Wayne Franklin. New York: Penguin, 1997 . Hamilton , Alexander , James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist . Ed. J.R. Pole Indianapolis: Hackett, 2005 . Hobsbawm , Eric...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 August 2000
... to the
fictional ruptures of kidnapping and rape he had employed throughout his nov-
elistic career, not least in Sir Charles Grandison it~elf.~That novel begins with what
has often been read as a false start: the kidnapping of that virtuous but misread
text Harriet Byron by Sir Hargrave, one of the novel's...
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