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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 504–518.
Published: 01 November 2016
... materially decipherable as paper sequences, portable objects, material containers of letters arranged on a page and yet not being fully free of this image of the book? Focusing on Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) and Ali Smith's The Accidental (2005) as novels that speak from what Jacques Derrida calls...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 176–187.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Nicholas Huber Abstract In this interview, Tom McCarthy considers his relationship to the novel and its history as a form, including the changing conditions of the contemporary literary world that have allowed for his existence within it. He provides a schematic for understanding the various modes...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 165–192.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of Ambiguity and Emblem in Tom Jones.” ELH 35.2 ( 1968 ): 188 –217. Battestin , Martin C. Introduction. Joseph Andrews and Shamela. By Henry Fielding. Ed. Martin C. Battestin Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961 . v –xl. Battestin , Martin C. The Moral Basis of Fielding’s Art: A Study...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 50–72.
Published: 01 May 2013
... superstition they claimed was perpetuated by magic shows. Fielding performs the same boundary-work in Tom Jones , carefully contrasting the enlightened “poetic Faith” solicited by the rationalized clockwork of his plot with the superstition incited by the baroque machinery of spectacular narratives that he...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Stephanie Insley Hershinow In this essay, I confront the problem of character inconsistency in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones by first showing how the novel is positively influenced by the example of naive virtue and class conversion found in Samuel Richardson's Pamela , which Fielding had previously...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 328–352.
Published: 01 November 2000
... Novel . Ed. Emory Eliott. New York: Columbia UP, 1991 . 81 –109. Domínguez , Virginia . White by Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1986 . Douglas , Ann . “Introduction: The Art of Controversy.” Uncle Tom’s Cabin . By Harriet...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 204–220.
Published: 01 August 2006
...JASON RICHARDS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Alexander , John K. Samuel Adams: America’s Revolutionary Politician . Lanham: Rowman, 2002 . Ammons , Elizabeth . “Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Empire, and Africa.” Approaches to Teaching Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Seb Franklin This essay takes the diagrammatic formulations of trauma and networks that are both presented and critiqued in Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel Remainder as the occasion to sketch some elements of a methodology for critical analysis in the age of computational thinking. By locating...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... about mediation by Tom McCarthy including Satin Island , C , and Remainder . After establishing the role of mediation in wartime activities across periods of imperial rule, the essay underscores these texts’ varied obsessions with physical channels, technological apparatuses, and built infrastructures...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... Field theory envisions money's value as arising from and shifting with the market or social environment from which it arises. This essay examines how the field theory of money can be linked with money's role in three contemporary examples of speculative fiction: Hari Kunzru's Gods Without Men , Tom...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 56–70.
Published: 01 May 2012
... popularity of this book, like that of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, has produced critical accounts that tend to shy away from formal, textual analyses in the interests of developing more culturally oriented readings. My essay attends both to the cultural contexts that inform the novel and to its...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 406–423.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., but it remains understudied. I turn to Wright's Depression-era story, originally published in Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas , because he explores a similar question regarding the 1927 Mississippi Flood, which many consider the precursor to Hurricane Katrina. Wright's story not only clues readers...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
...James Draney Abstract How do novels come to terms with the social and economic structures engendered by big data and surveillance capitalism? This question weighs heavily on J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015), two novels whose intellectual protagonists...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... Analyzing the plot's architecture, the article reveals how James strategically alludes to two novels about racism—overtly to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and covertly to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin —to construct his highly influential narrative about a white woman's transatlantic journey...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 307–311.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Tom Eyers For all that Wasser avoids excessive talk of rhizomes, and while one acknowledges her admirable refusal to oppose novelty and system, a keener sense of the desirability, even necessity, of literary structures of repetition, blockage, reduction, withdrawal, and blankness would, I think...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 166–175.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Tom McCarthy Abstract This article was originally delivered as the keynote address at the fourth biennial conference of the Society for Novel Studies, University of Pittsburgh, May 13, 2016. What so appeals to me, as a novelist, about Lévi-Strauss is the way he places writing at the center of his...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 382–401.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Tom Perrin This article contributes to the formulation of an aesthetics of the so-called middlebrow novel during the early Cold War years, when the term middlebrow was in its widest circulation. It argues that in their work middlebrow authors frequently attempt to adapt the Enlightenment paradigm...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 263–282.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and time, they can be as tightly intertwined as the network of households and corporations in which Godfrey St. Peter finds himself enmeshed or as porous as those clustered around Tom Oatland's fledging cooperative on the Blue Mesa. Marx and Engels themselves found these messy combinations particularly...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 69–103.
Published: 01 May 2001
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of political economy in the two different plot threads of The Mill on the Floss, lo-
cating the conflicting preoccupations of the Tom and Maggie narratives within
the novel's disparate concerns with growth, accumulation, and demand that are
the inheritance of the fundamental contradiction at the heart...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 490–494.
Published: 01 November 2015
... contemporaries categorized civil rights leaders as modern-day Uncle Toms because they refused to endorse strategic violence over civil disobedience, Reed defamiliarizes the Uncle Tom trope by making Uncle Robin the most successfully rebellious character in the novel. . . . Reed repositioned Uncle Tomming...
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