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Supernatural Realism
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Srdjan Smajić This essay argues that the relationship between realism and supernaturalism in realist novels is more complicated—and more symbiotic—than critics generally acknowledge. Taking Walter Scott's Waverley , George Eliot's Silas Marner , and Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre as representative...
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Crane's Speech Figures and the Making of Whilomville's Monster
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 400–420.
Published: 01 November 2015
... or supernatural agency over Crane's fictional terrain. Accounting for these in terms of fairly conventional modes of realism and naturalism, critics often presume that Crane's plotting works to literalize clichés of common speech and thus to reveal, in a manner of action, social significance latent in a manner...
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Robinson Crusoe as Defoe's Theory of Fiction
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 165–185.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... In that concluding parable, Defoe finally reveals his ambitions as a novelist, plotting the exposure of his characters' fear and gullibility in regard to the supernatural in order to open them up to a greater sense of divine providence. © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press...
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The Scarcities of Udolpho
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 180–199.
Published: 01 August 2022
... phenomenologies of scarcity, which manifest as affect, epistemic structure, economic process, social relations, and transcendent force or metaphysic (both natural and supernatural). Suspense replicates the social operation of generalized scarcity by carrying us from one particular “conflict of choice” to the next...
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Realism's Ghosts: Science and Spectacle in Tom Jones
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 50–72.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... An engine.
3. Supernatural agency in poems.
—Johnson’s Dictionary
The machinery of Fielding’s plots has long been a focus of critical interest, espe-
cially for scholars invested in reading them, despite their improbabilities, as nar-
rative...
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Frankenstein: A Child’s Tale
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 145–175.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995 . Collings , David . “The Monster and the Imaginary Mother: A Lacanian Reading of Frankenstein.” Smith 245 –58. Copjec , Joan . “Vampires, Breast-Feeding, and Anxiety.” October No. 58 ( 1991 ): 24 –43...
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Enchanted Enlightenment
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 497–501.
Published: 01 November 2012
... oneself as a protagonist within a narrative plot
(89). Molesworth contends that the teleology of plot—its rendering of experience as a chain
of events moving inevitably toward a final outcome—replaces the supernatural teleologies
of old, thereby reenchanting the world by shielding “the individual...
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The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Modernist Haunting
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 268–291.
Published: 01 August 2011
... sensitive register of the transition from the Victorian to the modern age
and of the supernatural idiom that allowed such fecund elaboration of that tran-
sition’s tensions and promise. Finally, Conrad makes a good test case because of
his unique status as perhaps the most reluctant modernist...
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Disenchanting China: Orientalism and the Aesthetics of Reason in the English Novel
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 254–271.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Williams. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968 . Scott , Walter . Rev. of Emma by Jane Austen. Novelists and Fiction 225 –36. Scott , Walter . “On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition ….” Novelists and Fiction 312 –53. Sheridan , Frances . Memoirs of Miss Sidney...
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Experience and Its Discontents
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 300–304.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to illustrate the value of an innate, untutored moral capacity in a corrupt, and corrupting, world (94). The chapter's focal point is Radcliffe's use of the explained supernatural in such novels as The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Romance of the Forest , where naturalist explanations of the apparent...
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Another Goethe
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 477–481.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... Goethe has thus transformed the supernatural into a legible vehicle for the subconscious” (171). In the conclusion, Brown suggests that Goethe belongs not only in the genealogy of depth psychology from Rousseau to Freud but also in several other genealogies accounting for the development of modern...
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In the Wake of the Novel: The Oriental Tale as National Allegory
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 May 1999
.... As Doody again observes, the domestic
English novel's promoters care less about realism as an effect-which can be
produced in a number of ways that include fantastic and supernatural ele-
ments-than they do about a "Prescriptive Realism" which is "demanding and
hectoring" (294).
Both kinds...
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“Was Anyone Hurt?”: The Ends of Satire in A Handful of Dust
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 351–373.
Published: 01 November 2003
... explanation of the origins of the feeling. But in his
literary discussion he reserves the term for those works-most extensively,
E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The SandmanM--that elicit in readers this feeling of anxiety
or dread. Ghost stories, tales of the supernatural, Gothic novels, horror movies...
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Time Wandering: Problems of Witnessing in the Romantic-Era Novel
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 May 2010
...”
(Richardson 1231; emphasis added). As is characteristic of the gothic, Maturin’s
novel uses the supernatural to push past, and thus highlight, the formal conven-
tions structuring representations of the “natural”—in this case, the effect of time
on real bodies and minds. Melmoth the Wanderer, we learn...
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Indirect Realism
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 May 2013
... critics have
taken for mere eccentricity, and Dickens clarifies even when he seems to obscure. “Ghosts
arise from human actions and may be dispelled by them. They are not supernatural; their
explanation is social. As dirt is ‘matter in the wrong place,’ so the ghosts of Bleak House arise
from...
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Heterosexual Horror: Dracula, the Closet, and the Marriage-Plot
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in high society and his supernatural capacities of insight
and knowledge in the novel itself. But what would this special access consist of?
Why would the closet afford such a privileged view not only of homosexual but of
heterosexual life? The question of “the epistemology of the closet...
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Strange Forms
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 133–136.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., but as a dense network of stories, which are always, at least in part, products of imagination” (41). Representing the supernatural, these novels show the importance of fictionality to building and also experiencing a world. The book unfolds by focusing on different novel pairs that elucidate the novel's...
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Here Be Monsters
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 296–299.
Published: 01 August 2021
... makes an appearance, but not as a conventionally nostalgic national icon; in the context of this book's argument, he is positioned next to the orangutan, and as if from the world of the supernatural, one who has not died out with the inexorable progress of civilization but is “still out there somewhere...
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Metaphors Happen: Miracle and Metaphor in Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 344–362.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., is—miraculously—a subject of some sort of grace. The affecting resonance between la guadalupana and Turtle in the cemetery suggests how both miracle and metaphor are the effect of a receptive reader whose own readiness to read forms a network with the novel, obviating supernatural intercession. 2 Miracle...
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Altered States
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 505–508.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and Eliot offer especially clear explanations of how, for
Victorians, strong emotion led to what we now consider shock rather than the other way
around, as we now tend to read the same material. In reading Eliot, Matus shows how a
supernatural story like the “The Lifted Veil” provides a way of reading...
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