... , Kaja . Male Subjectivity at the Margins . New York: Routledge, 1992 . Stevenson , Robert Louis . The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . New York: Bantam, 1985 . Veeder , William . “Questions of Text.” Veeder and Hirsch 3 –58. Veeder , William and Gordon Hirsch...

... the Subject STACEY MARGOLIS, The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Durham: Duke UP, 2005), pp. 248, cloth, $74.95, paper, $21.95. Edward Bellamy's 1888 story "To Whom This May Come" describes a community of mind- readers, people whose every thought and desire...

... The Woodlanders seems to foster sympathy for rural folk who get caught up and reconfigured in state fantasy, it ultimately indicts sympathy and, by extension, its appropriation by the modern liberal state. With its radical doubt about the stability of the subject and its incisive critique of the politics...

... Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2004 . Abstraction and the Subject of Novel ­Reading: Drifting through Romola David Kurnick Two compelling recent accounts of fictional characterization, perhaps unsurpris- ingly, take George...

...Sarah Winter This essay locates the subject of human rights in the narrative forms of J. M. Coetzee's novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe through an interpretation drawing on Jacques Rancière's theory of dissensus and tracing the novel's historical relations to the equitable and remedial...

...KARI WEIL Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 CLAUDIA MOSCOVICI, Gender and Citizenship: The Dialectics of Subject-Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture (Oxford: Rowan and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 144, $18.95. Androgyny and the Citizen-Subject...

...ANN ARDIS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 TAMAR KATZ, Impressionist Subjects: Gender, Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England (Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. 288, cloth, $39.95. Modernizing the Female Subject TAMAR KATZ...

... of liberal subjectivity as self-conscious, prior to the social, and private” (4). Her own preferred framework, like that of Bourke, would appear to be that of Ludwig Wittgenstein's language game theory of pain, as more recently reworked by Stanley Cavell and Veena Das in arguments that emphasize “how pain...

... Possibilities of Transformation within the Capitalist World Economy.” African Studies Review 17 ( 1974 ): 1 –26. Afkican Literature, Modernism, and the Problem ofPolitica1 Subjectivity NICHOLAS BROWN What does it mean to talk about the politics of form...

... Press PARK JULIE , The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2010 ), pp. 312 , cloth, $50.00 . Novel Objects, Virtual Subjects julie park, The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford...

..., dasein (being there) does not describe slave subjectivity as much as would a term such as arbeitsein (being in work). But contemporary scholars have raised concerns about positing black alterity. Madhu Dubey, for one, cautions against situating African American cultural production in “residual zones...

... and her female narratee, the story of the heterosexual subject, which the eighteenth-century novel seems bent on confirming, is revealed as a story of the failure or incompleteness of the novel's own heteronormative project. Nineteenth-century novels eschew the structure of what I call the sapphic...

.... Jose´ Marı´a Arguedas and Ricardo Piglia: Two Radical Views on Political Subjection in Latin America HORACIO LEGRA´ S While in the 1970s and early 1980s democracy and politics were subjects periph- eral to the main concerns of academic studies on literature...

...DIANNE F. SADOFF Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 BETTE LONDON, Writing Double: Women’s Literary Partnerships (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 232 + xii, cloth, $45.00, paper, $18.95. Non-legitimate Authorship in an Age of Anxious Subjectivity BEmLONWN...

... . Gilroy , Paul . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993 . Hartman , Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America . New York: Oxford UP, 1997 . Howe , Irving . “Black Boys and Native...

...Paul Stasi Abstract This article argues that we have consistently misunderstood Jane Austen's subjects by assimilating them to a political liberalism in which she was uninterested. What matters in Austen is not subjective interiority so much as social status; her presentation of character resists...

... demonstrates, nonetheless, in the principles of Lacanian theory the postulation of a class of subjects whose psychic sexuation as men or women does not match up with the symbolic sexual identity of their physical persons: subjects who cannot, therefore, assume their physical persons as their bodies...

...Naomi Milthorpe The tension between precisions and generalities that catches scholars seeking to define the character of literary modernism fruitfully animates the work of novelist Henry Green. Green takes as his subject matter the ordinary stuff of life—commonplace language, routine experiences...

... constitutes markers of a story that can be categorized as historical fiction, this essay reads Truong's treatment of these figures as the vehicle through which she problematizes the act of giving a particular experience or subject historical presence. The essay explores how Truong uses Stein's modernist...

...Abby Scribner Abstract This article takes up two famously disliked nineteenth-century novels—Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Charlotte Brontë's Villette —and argues that they are dissatisfying to readers because their protagonists fail to cohere as liberal subjects around a legible interior realm...