...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... . “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...

...Amanda Anderson Novel States zarena aslami, The Dream Life of Citizens: Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State (New York: Fordham UP, 2012), pp. 195, cloth, $55.00. Recent literary scholarship drawing on the Foucauldian concept of biopower...

... 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...

...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...

... 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 ...

..., sociology, and theology, this is in- tentional. His stated focus is to trace a shuggle in Victorian social thought and fiction be- tween "incarnational" and "antonernent" theology: "that Victorian social life, however disenchanted it may seem, must contain some hidden, sacred, and lively essence...

.... Only at this point, halfway through the book, does Pettitt turn to the second half of her titular topic, the Victorian novel. This more literary part of the book is less compelling than the cultural and political history which precedes it. Pettitt states that her book is "based" on "the analogy...

.... Kalliney argues the case for a late-imperial and post-imperial English exceptionalism by turning to two discourses hitherto neglected in the discussion: class and urban space. Kalliney states, "[nlew definitions of class politics-and a domestic geography of class-became vital spaces in which...

... 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...

... achieves is nothing less than “a metaphysical world, organized by states of attenuation” (38). Glencora, more mundanely, is successful at “rerouting her sexual desires into social desires” (59). The absence of a historical or political perspective in Jarvis's book shows itself most strikingly in her...

... at Michigan State University and the author of The Dream Life of Citizens: Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State (2012). One might wonder, why a book on realism now? Jaffe's introduction and especially the conclusion lay out the larger stakes of her book in trenchant and compelling terms...