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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 196–206.
Published: 01 August 2009
... central statements of this philosophy are The Years (1937) and Three Guineas (1938), the latter of which I suggest is not merely an antiwar pamphlet (according to critical convention) but also an anti-programmatic ethical treatise for living what Michel Foucault calls “the non-fascist life.” Criticism...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
... , in which novels draw attention to themselves as texts with which to produce new forms of thinking rather than as storehouses of information or political treatises. The writer Kazuo Ishiguro's novels Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go present limit thinking as a means to offset the prevailing form...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 49–64.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Leila Mansouri This article argues that the unusual depiction of metempsychosis central to Robert Montgomery Bird's 1836 novel Sheppard Lee exposes instabilities in the notion of property that is foundational to John Locke's Second Treatise on Government . Key to this argument is a feature of Lee's...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) stands in refutation of Defoe's iconic portrayal of human isolation. Instead, I argue for affinities between Hume's secular skepticism and Crusoe's religious faith and suggest that both Defoe and Hume channel the same spiritual allegory of the pilgrim as shipwrecked...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 286–288.
Published: 01 August 2015
... of ideas; each chapter shows how narrative fiction takes up and transforms the problems animating nonnarrative treatments of happiness. A literary study, Norton's introduction briefly surveys an eighteenth-century discourse on happiness, whose diversity of approaches and ideas is reflected in the treatise...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 497–501.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2002 . Hume David . A Treatise of Human Nature . Ed. Selby-Bigge L. A. . 2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford UP , 1978 . Hunter J. Paul . Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 175–195.
Published: 01 August 2000
... as often in opposition as agreement), Caleb Williams (1794) and
the History of British India (1817) provided the logic for such emerging pro-police
arguments as George B. Mainwaring's Observations on fhe Present State of the Police
of the Metropolis (1821) and John Wade's A Treatise on the Police...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 November 2009
... . “Reading the Lisbon Earthquake: Adorno, Lyotard, and the Contemporary Sublime.” Yale Journal of Criticism 17 . 1 ( 2004 ): 1 -19. Benedict de , Spinoza . A Theologico-political Treatise and A Political Treatise . Trans. R. H. M. Elwes. Mineola: Dover, 2004 . Virno , Paolo...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 550–554.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., and indeed Tindal Kareem draws heavily on contemporary and eighteenth-century cognitive theory, particularly David Hume's devastating attack on the fallacy of causation, A Treatise of Human Nature . Tindal Kareem takes on the crisis of belief that she sees as marking the transition to modernity...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 104–124.
Published: 01 August 2007
... . Two Treatises of Government . Ed. Peter Laslett. New York: Cambridge UP, 1988 . Miles , Robert . “The 1790s: The Effulgence of Gothic.” Hogle 41 –62. Radcliffe , Ann . A Sicilian Romance . Ed. Alison Milbank. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993 . Reeve , Clara . The Old English Baron...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of letters—as B to A, C to D—like Euler had done before him and Anderson after. But, during one of the most astonishing moments in his aesthetic treatise, he does convert the scene of reading to such a diagram, transforming the unspooling of narrative into what Zitin calls a “cognitive game of amassing...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 24–45.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in Relation to Hobbes, Hume, and Burke . Ithaca: Cornel UP, 1988 . Levi-Strauss , Claude . The Savage Mind . 1962. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1966 . Locke , John . An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government. The Second Treatise of Government. Two Treatises...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
... in Totem and Taboo” (3), Allen does not consider
how Ellison employs and negotiates the concepts of Freud’s treatise in Invisible
Man but rather assumes without question the treatise’s validity and appropriate-
ness as an interpretive model. As I later suggest, however, a closer examination
of how...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 24–44.
Published: 01 August 2004
...ANTHONY JARRELLS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Works Cited Ashcraft , Richard . Revolutionary Politics and Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government.” Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986 . Benjamin , Walter . Theses on the Philosophy of History. Illuminations . Trans. Harry...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 455–460.
Published: 01 November 2012
...—paintings of William Hodges and
J. M. W. Turner, and various maritime treatises like Thomas Crosby’s Mariner’s Guide (1751)
but that offers too productive, sometimes remarkable, readings of Robinson Crusoe, James
Fenimore Cooper’s The Pilot, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
The opening chapter takes...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 May 2000
... criticism of Tennyson
("The Princess Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Norton, and others; they turn an ob-
scure treatise on the proper planning for a Victorian Gentleman's house by forgotten de-
signer-architect Robert Kerr into a fascinating and revealing document and narrative. They
show...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 531–533.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that exacerbate existing inequities (religious intolerance, caste hierarchies). Literary texts thus open up South Asian stereotypes for transnational audiences so as to teach us how to think about the notoriously vague and slippery phenomenon we call globalization. The book is as much a treatise...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993 . Hartman , Saidiya . Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route . New York: Farrar, 2007 . Hughes , Henry . Treatise on Sociology . Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1854 . Pinker , Steven . How the Mind Works . New York: Norton, 1997...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 May 1999
... of the New World," Ron Karenga's "Black Cultural
Nationalism," and other treatises on black aesthetics to emphasize the significance of re-
claiming the art image as an imperative in forging a new black identity. Having established
the artists of the sixties as "image-makers," Billingslea-Brown...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 214–233.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and Political Sciences . Trans. Downes O. G. . London : Charles and Edwin Layton , 1849 . ———. Popular Instructions on the Calculation of Probabilities . Trans. Beamish Richard . London : Weale , 1839 . ———. A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties . Trans. Knox...
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