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Political Melodrama Meets Domestic Fiction: The Politics of Genre in North and South
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2019
...John Kucich Abstract Generic innovation has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South hybridizes two nineteenth-century narrative genres—political melodrama and domestic fiction—to invite readerly involvement in the creation of new...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 163–188.
Published: 01 August 2021
...John Kucich Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. British political fiction was a satirical genre until Benjamin Disraeli married it to the bildungsroman in Coningsby...
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African Literature, Modernism, and the Problem of Political Subjectivity
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 264–278.
Published: 01 November 2008
...NICHOLAS BROWN Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Works Cited Brown , Nicholas , “bossapósbossa, Or, Postmodernism as Semiperipheral Symptom.” The New Centennial Review 3.2 ( 2003 ): 117 –59. Brown , Nicholas . Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth...
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Political Complaint
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 519–522.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Shirley Samuels LAUREN BERLANT, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham: Duke UP, 2008), pp. 368, cloth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Political Complaint
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The Theo-political Origins of the English Marriage Plot
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 31–37.
Published: 01 May 2010
... religious-political currents, I argue that the novel's marriage plot emerged as both a cultural agent of the Erastian state and an expression of a highly labile, conservative, patriot opposition. It did so, therefore, as an English marriage plot which placed Anglican ritual and relations between vicars...
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Political Fictions, Post-1945
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 281–285.
Published: 01 August 2015
.... 336, paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 These two books address the novel's cultural roles relative to prominent political institutions in the post–World War II United States. Michael Szalay's Hip Figures ties together the 1960s rebranding of the Democratic...
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Political Literacy: Gender, Nationalism, and Visibility in African Literary History
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 317–321.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of constraining narrative frames that have limited the reception of African novels written by women. A transformative intervention in African literary historiography, this trailblazing study simultaneously attends to the political dimension of novels, which Andrade illuminates in the tension between feminist...
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Pamela's Hands: Political Intangibility and the Production of Manners
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 May 2013
... a political transit from barbarism to civilization. This claim is advanced through the convergence of three interpretive strategies: a close reading of the novel that tracks the literal and figurative presence of the hand; direct confrontation with texts of political theory, with special emphasis on Thomas...
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José María Arguedas and Ricardo Piglia: Two Radical Views on Political Subjection in Latin America
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 132–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., the kernel of the engagement of literature with the political lies in the exhaustion of the nation as a site of the constitution of a popular will. In the case of Arguedas, whose work is deeply marked by the long colonial experience of the Andean people, repeated frustrations with modern notions...
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The Politics of Address in George Eliot's Fiction
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 64–83.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and erudite paratext, to acknowledge readers without delimiting their scale. Drawing on reading history and political literary theory, in particular the work of Jacques Rancière, the essay argues that this shift democratizes address. Democratic address capitalizes on the indiscriminate relationship between...
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Untimely Love: The Aesthetics and Politics of Anachronism in The Age of Innocence
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 254–273.
Published: 01 August 2020
...John Sampson Abstract “Untimely Love” reassesses the aesthetic choices and political implications of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (1920), first by highlighting a surprising overlap between Wharton and the anarcho-feminist Emma Goldman. Wharton's novelistic critique of New York society's...
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Pamela's Complaint: Injury, Rights, and the Politics of Story
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and remedy is an allegory of common law justice for victims of sexual violence: it tends to treat their complaints as malevolent prosecutions, directing legal scrutiny toward the victims of sexual violence rather than toward its perpetrators. Richardson's political critique of the legal system engenders...
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The Politics of Living Death in Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., as a politics of substitution—that is, when he takes a life, he leaves something in its place. Rebels do not simply disappear; they are killed and then given sycophantic zombie afterlives in the General's propaganda. In response to this politics of substitution, Farah explores a politics of mourning, which...
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Not Going Anywhere: Local Protests as Post-global Politics
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., this article shows how 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests indicate the contours of what we might think of as a “post‐global” politics: that is, a movement that reflects a globally informed analysis but nonetheless draws only implicitly on ideas of global commonality. National movements affirm the unity...
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The Missing Matter of Revolution: Hydroelectricity and the Terrain of Postcolonial Politics
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and revolutionary politics. Focusing on a hydroelectric facility yet to be constructed, A Wreath for Udomo reaches for the formal capacities of the novel to stage how the process of formal enclosure specific to and resulting from economic planning results in an analytic enclosure that slowly undoes the possibility...
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Creole Family Politics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 328–352.
Published: 01 November 2000
... , Karen . Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body . Berkeley: U of California P, 1993 . Sand , George . Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1853. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ed. Elizabeth Ammons. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980 . 3 –6. “Slavery.” Rev...
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Contemporary African American Fiction and the Politics of Postmodernism
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
...: Oxford UP, 1988 . Gilroy , Paul . “Living Memory: A Meeting with Toni Morrison.” Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures . London: Serpent’s Tail, 1993. 175–82. Harper , Phillip Brian . Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture . New York: Oxford UP...
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Olive Schreiner, Masochism, and Omnipotence: Strategies of a Preoedipal Politics
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 May 2002
...: Macmillan, 1978 . Davey , Arthur . The British Pro-Boers, 1877–1902 . Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1978 . Duplessis , Rachel Blau . Writing Beyond the Ending . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985 . Eagleton , Terry . “The Flight to the Real.” Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle . Ed...
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The Politics of Silence: Mansfield Park and the Amelioration of Slavery
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 361–383.
Published: 01 November 2006
...: Scolar, 1973 . Davidson , Jenny . Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004 . Day , Thomas . The History of Sandford and Merton . 3 Vols . 1783–1789. Ed. Isaac Kramnick. New York: Garland, 1977...
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The Politics of Captivity
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 187–189.
Published: 01 August 2007
...MICHELLE BURNHAM TERESA A. TOULOUSE, The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007), pp. 240, cloth, $49.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 The Politics of Captivity...
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