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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... a taste for everything. Classic or contemporary, highbrow or middlebrow, formally experimental or straightforwardly realist, mainstream or marginal, Buell (in the spirit of Whitman) gives equal welcome to all, noting differences of category or provenance without discriminating the level of the value...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 May 2001
...ROBYN R. WARHOL PHILLIP BARRISH, American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 213 + x, $54.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Matters of Taste
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 152–156.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., cloth, $35.00. A Taste for the Everyday
ruth bernard yeazell, Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel (Princeton:
Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 274, cloth, $35.00.
“How is a novel written in nineteenth-century Britain or France like a picture painted...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Jed Esty In English and comparative literature, the question of realism has reemerged in the last fifteen years as vital to readers and writers of the global novel. A realist turn, so-called, implies a shift in tastes, canons, and markets; it also entails a heightened form of disciplinary attention...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 45–62.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Matthew Sussman For many readers, “stupidity” in Henry James signifies mental slowness, poor taste, or even moral delinquency. However, James also conceived of stupidity as a positive virtue because it promises to deliver the individual from the “ordeal of consciousness” associated...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 426–435.
Published: 01 November 2017
... “expectations”: stories that justify rather than explain our current standing. Is the taste for fantasy and nonrealist speculation, then, indicative of an escapist tendency to foreclose on the universalist presumptions encoded in realist fiction? The age of patrimonial agglomeration may seem a death knell...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
... styles and markets is subdued through melodrama's focus on affective rather than taste-making practices, appearing as a viable metaphor of the fate of book-objects in a zero-sum marketplace. This article focuses on Rich and Famous , which explores the question of affinity between women, lowbrow...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to make distinctions of taste in reading various environments and scenes. The essay interprets Victor Frankenstein's artistic and scientific endeavors as a form of history painting that cannot rid itself of the “debased” genre of still life, namely, rhyparography (the painting of waste and filth). Indeed...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Miranda Burgess Work Cited Kwan Kevin . Crazy Rich Asians . Kindle ed. New York : Penguin , 2013 . Eugenia Zuroski , A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism ( New York : Oxford UP , 2018 ), pp. 282 , paper, $74.00...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 254–271.
Published: 01 November 2005
... taste in gardening Le Goat Anglo-Chinois" (39); Gray similarly insisted in a
letter to a friend that the English owed nothing to the Chinese for their excellence in gardening.
See Lovejoy, who argues that in disavowing the Chineseness of English gardening, these
writers not only...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 368–388.
Published: 01 November 2012
... . Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1987 . Bourdieu Pierre . Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste . Trans. Nice Richard . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1984 . Burnett John . Plenty and Want: A Social History...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2013
... within the parameters of “delicacy” and “taste”
that were supposedly unattainable for the heiress.
Frances Trollope, the focus of the second chapter, was subject to a markedly different
reception as she was tagged by the vulgarity and materialism of her worst female char-
acters and ultimately...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 466–469.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in targeting qual-
ity consumers.” This change in the regime of cultural production and distribution has
occurred against the backdrop of “the radical devaluation of the academy and the New
York literary scene as taste brokers” (7). The result has been a “taste vacuum” (81) into
which have rushed new...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 382–401.
Published: 01 November 2011
... . Sunday Times 14 Oct. 1990 : Features 10 . Castle Gregory . Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman . Gainesville : UP of Florida , 2006 . Conroy Marianne . “‘No Sin in Lookin’ Prosperous': Gender, Race, and the Class Formations of Middlebrow Taste in Douglas Sirk's Imitation...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 506–511.
Published: 01 November 2012
...,” Turner synthesizes
and tests the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, James English, John Gulliory, and Frank Kermode
about the forces that shape literary taste both within and beyond the academy (9). In test-
ing these ideas directly in the specific cases of Murdoch, Brookner, Rendell, and Tennant...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2021
... yours) establishes a sensibility within the text itself. Cheeky. But not unprecedented” (18; emphasis in original). Eide goes on to explain that Kant did something similar. Critical style is obviously a matter of taste in more senses than one—taste as subjective appreciation or taste as a shared sense...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 401–423.
Published: 01 November 2010
... more than once, in the
connexion, said to himself; letting the rest of the proposition drop, but touching
cross | ethics of tact in wings of the dove 413
again thus sufficiently on the outrage even to taste involved in one’s having tosee ”
(431–32).17
We...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2001
... adding. (37-38)
Scorning strategic self-censure, Austen's narrator goes on the offensive against
reviewers, those supposedly authoritative arbiters of taste, who complain tire-
lessly and all too easily about the "trash with which the press now groans." With
astonishing and unprecedented...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 384–401.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1895 . Cambridge UP, 2001 . Bellis , Peter . No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990 . Bourdieu , Pierre . Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 295–298.
Published: 01 August 2017
... an exploration of “different shapes for the popular novel” (160) as a sifting through plots and characters' remarks for what are taken to be authorial pronouncements on art and taste. Gilmore Dehn , The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art: Fictional Form on Display ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP...
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