... . Arendt , Hannah . The Origins of Totalitarianism . New York: Harcourt, 1966 . Baldridge , Cates . “Alternatives to Bourgeois Individualism in A Tale of Two Cities.” Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 30 ( 1990 ): 633 –54. Brantlinger , Patrick . “Did Dickens Have...

...SRINIVAS ARAVAMUDAN In the Wake of the Novel: The Oriental Tale as National Allegory SNNIVAS ARAVAMUDAN A small dugout canoe named the Novel was sighted off the coast of Sun Juan Fernandez island, in the balmy waters of the Caribbean, during the year 1719...

...WILFRED D. SAMUELS JARED GARDNER, Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), pp. 238, cloth, $45.00, paper, $16.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 A Tale of Two Nations, Or, Disingenuousness...

.... Frankenstein: A Child's Tale MARSHALL BROWN Mary Shelley must have been very lucky at cards. It's not as if she was unhappy at love: she was full of passions, and they were often stormily requited. But she was certainly unlucky, from the moment of her birth. There is something irreme...

... in heavy bunches, bushels, balls, heaps. We now exchange those very same things, but also bits, bytes, software, and intellectual property. As before, narrative can reveal the material element in culture, economically and otherwise—even botanically. The tale of two materialisms might end happily, for you...

...Alison Glassie Abstract This essay explores the intertwined oceanographic and spiritual imaginations structuring Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being , which she rewrote in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. A Tale for the Time Being 's new, metafictional frame story...

...Jonathan H. Grossman Critics have long conceded that the characters in A Tale of Two Cities are noticeably not fleshed out as individuals by the historical context of the French Revolution, and recently we have begun to figure out why: Dickens is depicting the French Revolution as a struggle...

..., the form that had mastered the containment of violence was the historical novel, and Macdermots is clearly attempting to come to terms with the inheritance of Sir Walter Scott. It is equally preoccupied with the tradition of the Irish national tale, in particular with the models of national restoration...

... the anachronistic dream of recovering the collective experiences of preindustrial life masks the author's insertion into an industrialized system of literary production. The concluding portion of this discussion turns to F. Scott Fitzgerald's affiliated attempt to recreate or refashion the fairy tale...

... Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities to reconsiderations of Svengali, the villain of George Du Maurier's Trilby , American reactions and revisions treated British fears playfully. I argue that this form of misreading reflected more than the simple desire for national distinction. Tension between American...

... degree zero, where various possible explanations hang in equipoise with one another. Stories accordingly often end with some seemingly unrelated detail that serves to embed the entire tale within in a universe where stories, poems, and inscriptions, each equally unlikely, are forced to compete...

... been scriptural. We might also remember the existence of important efforts to make explicit what is specific to the practices of reading. Recalling the existence of gossip, tales, and oral epics, we should not equate stories or narrative fictions with novels or the reading of novels...

... the shape of letters. Typography and geometry are unexpectedly crucial to the political imaginary of Jude the Obscure , which projects the malleability of social lineaments even as it tells the tale of lethally rigid norms. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Thomas Hardy geometry...

...: Penguin, 1992 . Corbett , Mary Jean . “Another Tale to Tell: Postcolonial Theory and the Case of Castle Rackrent.” Criticism 36 ( 1994 ), 383 –400. Court Intrigues, or the Secret History of Ardelisa, A Story founded on FACTS, and illustrated with Anecdotes of Persons in Real Life...

... or a step, not just as a cautionary tale, but as actually constitutive of his view of God and truth” (62–63). Fear is not reason's absence but its resonant frequency, where privation is “capable of a positive sense” that imbricates the sinner's fear of hell within “an evidentiary sphere of rational...

... , Ina . “Narrating Cultural Encounter: Lady Morgan and the Irish National Tale.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 51 ( 1996 ): 287 –303. Flanagan , Thomas . The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850 . New York: Columbia UP, 1959 . 69 –79. Gillespie , Raymond . “A Question of Survival...

...-Representation in Britain, 1832–1920 . London: Oxford UP, 1991 . Gaskell , Elizabeth . Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life . 1848. Ed. Stephen Gill. London: Penguin, 1970 . Gough , John . An Autobiography . Boston, 1850 . Hall , John Vine . The Author of “The Sinner’s Friend...

...) in their relation to the tradition of the English novel, using as my examples texts by Oliver Goldsmith, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens. The Vicar of Wakefield is the tale of a family’s survival through a series of calami- ties that affect the material home as well as the lives and fortunes of family...

... readers to "reel the world home," including tales told by objects, anti-slavery medallions, and the Abbe de Raynaf's Histoire des Dew lrzdes (2). Chapter 1 thus approaches the question of sentimental fiction indirectly, through mid- century theories of sympathy developed by David Hume, Adam...