...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...

...- ters this demographic deficit throughout Ulysses, as it appears in his use of the word million. In addition to the population estimate in “Ithaca,” this quantifier shows up at 7 See L. Paul-Dubois 523; Joseph Whitaker 348; Statistical Abstract of the United Kingdom 347; and Irish Year...

...Jennifer Gutman Abstract Emerging during a Cold War era of nuclear uncertainty, refined in decades of neoliberal turbulence, and used today for modeling climate futures, scenario thinking has now entered the domain of the Anthropocene novel. This article argues for the adoption of scenarios...

... statistics either in the shared ability of these forms of writing to shape emotion and identity (Jaffe) or in their common attempt to reconcile the uncertainty of indi- vidual actions with the regularity of abstract social patterns (Rosenthal). What I think these accounts have failed to observe...

... for justifying an evolutionary approach to the analysis of art—as though artworks are natural phenomena subject to measurement and classification. However, Koren's novella suggests that the break between the abstract worldly form and Israel's statist society should be understood as more than a neat way...

... that is not yet fully abstracted from its natural environment. In Hardy, the relation between character and environment is causal, to be sure, but unlike Zola, Hardy does not articulate it as the expression of inherited characteristics in specific social conditions. Indeed, the question Hardy persistently poses...

...Rachel Ablow JAFFE AUDREY , The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph ( Ohio State UP , 2010 ), pp. 138 , cloth, $59.95 , paper, $24.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Abstracted...

... and Themes (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 960, cloth, $125.00, paper, $35.00. To those sympathetic to Moretti's general project--one of combining literary criticism and history with statistical analysis, employing models creatively hijacked from other disciplines (see also his playful...

... as dependent on literacy and print as is the novel itself (3). Moretti's preface begins with a riff on Barthes: "Countless are the novels of the world." But these volumes suggest that novels can be counted. As the novel is empiricist, so are the "statistical profiles" that chart novel production...

... in evolutionary biology than the individual historical organisms that might have existed). Moretti plays the Darwinian cat among the pigeons of novelistic singularity, proposing a statistical method combined with techniques of distant reading that extrapolate and abstract general truths from so many novels...

... functionsperiod. Once desire is "reified" into set patterns of "per- fected speech," it is easy for the field of economics to do the same, basing its findings not on abstract speculations about origins and potentials but rather on the statistical evidence of NOVEL I FALL 2003/SPRING 2004...

... “the sociology of the novel”: the at times overlapping premises of the realist novel and sociology, most broadly the wish to take the abstractions known as “society” or “social structure” as subjects of representation. In her 1856 essay, “The Natural History of German Life,” Eliot pairs the novel...

... criticizes in liberalism? Philosophers for years have speculated that German idealism, with its dualist abstractions, logically contributed to fascistic thinking. Yet materialists might be more inclined to think that ideas follow actions at least as much as actions follow ideology, Chairman Mao's “Ideology...

..., the food supply, modes of production and exchange, and their impad on life forms generally" (3).In this realm, "Lifef'-a large, abstract organism--can be held in abeyance from those beings in which we usually find it; it becomes ready for calculations and opera- tions associated...

..., Margolis is less decisive—and, it seems, deliberately so. To understand public opinion prior to the rise of statistical polling, she chooses to study a group of writers preoccupied with the transmission of information and opinion through speech. As such, a set of fictions by Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar...

... | summer 2010 in Joyce 24).3 Where it appears in Bleak House, however, the cynicism implied in the narrator’s use of this term relies in part on the potential for statistical evalua- tion to produce its own exception. The abstract logic of statistics, as Patrick Joyce suggests, is in some sense...

... and scientific positivism, abstraction and materiality, phenomenology and epistemology, aesthetics and politics. He insightfully reads these as dialectics animating new Victorian ways of thinking about aesthetic experience at a time when various humanist and scientific inquiries were only just beginning...

... of the Islands . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992 . Foulke , Robert D. “Life in the Dying World of Sail, 1870–1910.” The journal of British Studies 3.1 ( 1963 ): 105 –36. Glover , John . “Tonnage Statistics of the Decade 1891–1900.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 65.1 ( 1902 ): 1 –46...

... Village . 5 vols. London: Whittaker, 1824-32 . Moretti , Franco . Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory . London: Verso, 2005 . Ray , John . The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Work of Creation . 1691. Glasgow: William Duncant, 1750 . Topham , Jonathan...

... is a “speculative” mode, which makes sense since concepts like liberty and citizenship are necessarily abstract. But the “speculative literary mode . . . is characterized by an amalgamation of political and aesthetic concerns, as writers sought to develop literary styles that were capable of articulating...