...John Marx The conventional wisdom that contemporary fiction has little use for the nation cannot explain the plurality of recent novels that attend to states in crisis. To detail the effects of state collapse is at the very least to insist on the state's continued relevance to the form...

..., 1998 . Norris , Margot . Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1985 . Sanders , Mark . “Disgrace.” MLA Convention . Washington, D.C., December 29 , 2000 . Age of Bronze, State of Grace...

...Ryan Trimm MARTINE WATSON BROWNLEY, Deferrals of Domain: Contemporary Women Novelists and the State (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), pp. 277, cloth, $45.00. PERICLES LEWIS, Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 241, cloth, $65.00...

...Zarena Aslami This essay argues that Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders registers a historic shift in the political imaginary of late nineteenth-century Britain: the emergence of a fantasy of the state as a heroic actor endowed with the capacity to step in and ameliorate one's pain. While...

...Marius Hentea Abstract Although the rise of the bureaucratic state was one of the most startling transformations of early twentieth-century British society, novelists raised on a diet of laissez-faire liberalism tended to shy away from direct representations of bureaucracy (with some prominent...

... argue that during the five years Woolf took to write the novel, she searched for and found an aesthetic form to enact her new critical ontology and that that aesthetic centrally informs the ethics of Three Guineas . Both works theorize possible states of freedom to be occupied and enacted in states...

...Amanda Anderson Aslami Zarena , The Dream Life of Citizens: Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State . ( New York : Fordham UP , 2012 ), pp. 195 , cloth, $55.00 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Novel States...

... in America: Essays Illustrating the Status, Methods, and Problems of Criticism in the United States in the Twentieth Century . Ed. Zabel Morton Dauwen . New York : Harper , 1951 . 729 – 41 . Brown Craig . “Packing a Sapphic Punch.” Rev. of Carol [The Price of Salt], by Patricia Highsmith...

... . “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations . New York: Schocken, 1969 . 253 –64. Bourdieu , Pierre . “Pour un Savoir Engagé.” Le Monde Diplomatique [Paris]. February 2002 : 3 . Brantlinger , Patrick . Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Great Britain, 1694–1994...

...Jonathan Loesberg MATUS JILL L. , Shock, Memory, and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction ( New York : Cambridge UP , 2009 ), pp. 264 , cloth, $72.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Altered States jill l. matus, Shock...

... rewards to be reaped. ROXANN WHEELER, Ohio State University ...

...JAMES V. CATANO KATHLEEN GREGORY KLEIN, ed. Diversity and Detective Fiction (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999), pp. 262, cloth, $51.95, paper, $25.95. PRISCILLA L. WALTON AND MANINA JONES. Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition...

... that, however reliant for many of their terms and maneuvers upon those economies that govern the state, the market, or the home, are nonetheless distinguishable from them. The second and fifth chapters focus on a figure, reading a range of texts, while the more compelling middle chapters situate...

... writing into the moment of its cultural production, Melba Cuddy-Keane reminds us that Woolf made significant contributions to the public sphere through the art of her essays. Their cumulative effect, as Cuddy-Keane states in her introduction, is "pedagogical and empowering" (1). So, too...

..., Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis. Carroll speaks of a "general laxity of intellectual standards in the humanities" (30) and compares the current state of literary study to the condition of the Soviet Union just before its demise (xi). He sees most of his colleagues as an entrenched...

... of their understanding of psychological states and internal processes" (51). Haggerty is certainly not the first to re- mark the indebtedness psychoanalysis owes to the lurid and phantasmagoric figures of the romantic era, but he is perhaps the first to give full articulation to the scandalous itinerary...

...ROBERT D. AGUIRRE KURT KOENIGSBERGER, The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007), pp. 278, cloth, $41.95, CD, $9.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 The Zoological Imagination KURT KOENIGSBERGER, The Novel...

... in an Atlantic swoon moment faces an abyss, losing its old NOVEL I SPRING I SUMMER 2008 social identity as it faints--only to reawaken, uprooted and yet newly racialized, 'born again' from its own ashes, as Rousseau and Hegel say of the state" (7). The Atlantic swoon, by the way, need...

... to a line of theoretical inquiry that can sean at times technical and dispassionate to a fault. But as we know all too well, the flesh can be unruly. scan J. JUENGEL, Michigan State University ...