... 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 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. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Androgyny and the Citizen-Subject...

...ANN ARDIS Modernizing the Female Subject TAMAR KATZ, lmpressionist Subjects: Gender, Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England (Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. 288, cloth, $39.95. "How do we read the centrality of the feminine subject...

... , 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...

... 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...

.... Feltham Oliver . New York : Continuum , 2005 . Butler Judith . The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1997 . Chytry Joseph . The Aesthetic State: A Quest in Modern German Thought . Berkeley : U of California P , 1989 . Derrida...

...DIANNE F. SADOFF Non-legitimate Authorship in an Age of Anxious Subjectivity BEmLONWN, Writing Double: Women's Literary Partnerships (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 232 + xii, cloth, $45.00, paper, $18.95. Introducing her book with apologies for having chosen...

... Farrington. New York: Penguin 1967 . 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...

... 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...

... . Wall Cynthia . The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2006 . Novel Objects, Virtual Subjects julie park, The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2010...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... value. All three writers correlate utility and gender, but it is in Trollope's works that we most clearly see the girl emerging as the absolute figure of uselessness. A Victorian cultural fetish, the girl embodies the wealth of human sentiment but also marks the place where sentimentalized subjectivity...

... like the medical graphing instruments of the 1860s creates a continuous record of bodily sensation attending to scale, timing, and source, helps not just to construct a subjectivity through emotion but to assert the materiality of the fictional world supporting that subjectivity. More important...