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...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...

... to encounter one another on more equal ground. Ward, the founder of the Bloomsbury-based University Hall, provides the imagination for the speculative state. Indeed, Ward began work on Robert Elsmere as early as 1885, five years before the University Hall settlement, so that “the novel's representation...

..., 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...Patrick O'Donnell James Phelan , Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narration ( Ohio State UP , 2017 ), pp. 304 , cloth, $89.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 Of roughly the same vintage as he, though possessing entirely different theoretical...

... be permitted to sit still forever” (193). There is an undercurrent of metacommentary in What a Library Means to a Woman, whereby our author approximates the figure of the collector (whether named Wharton, Paulina, Ramsden, or Benjamin ). For example, Liming states that “writing this book...

... that they conceive of character as “an attribute not so much of the unique individual as of the institutions of the state, international trade and finance, communication and media, labor, education, public health, the military, the law and more” (2). The title of his book names a set of formal strategies employed...

... 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...