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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the data they generate: their Yelp searches, commuting habits, and water usage nudge the infrastructure this way and that. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 African fiction genre fiction postcolonial fiction science fiction smart cities urban studies Something has happened...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
... economy. Copyright © 2019 by Caitlin Vandertop 2019 uneven development peripheral urbanism bildungsroman modernism rickshaw China India The theory of combined and uneven development has provided a new interpretive framework for studies of the novel in recent years, opening up...
View articletitled, Peripheral <span class="search-highlight">Urbanism</span>, Imperial Maturity, and the Crisis of Development in Lao She's Rickshaw and Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Sean Silver Abstract This article positions the eighteenth‐century novel alongside contemporary developments in the modeling of complex systems, including Leonhard Euler's solution to the Königsberg bridge problem and William Hogarth's serial engravings. Unlike studies that apply network theory...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 329–332.
Published: 01 November 2007
... KALLINEY, Cities of Afluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Eng1ishi;ess
(Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006), pp. 288, cloth, $59.50, paper, $22.50.
Peter Kalliney's excellent Cities of Affluence and Anger joins a growing list of recent cul-
tural and literary studies...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 313–337.
Published: 01 November 2001
..." is overdetermined by conflicting social pressures.
JOSEPH ENTN I URBAN SPECTATORSHIP
Wyckoff's narrative self-consciousness performs a complicated, dual function
in his writing. On the one hand, it prompts an acknowledgment of the limits of
his study, of the partiality...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2013
...John Marx AGATHOCLEOUS TANYA , Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World ( New York : Cambridge UP , 2011 ), pp. 266 , cloth, $93.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 324–338.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and Roissy airport, were completed” ( Smith 65 ). 11 In a recent study, urban theorist Ross Exo Adams provides a historical account of the origins of urbanization that is disarticulated from its standard association with the city form. For Adams, urbanization always takes the form of circulation...
View articletitled, The End of the City and the Coming of the <span class="search-highlight">Urban</span>: Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 231–257.
Published: 01 November 2002
...: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman . Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1989 . Coontz , Stephanie . The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap . New York: Basic, 1992 . Dubey , Madhu . “Literature and Urban Crisis: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire.” African...
View articletitled, Where the Talented Tenth Meets the Model Minority: The Price of Privilege in Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire and Lee’s Native Speaker
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 May 2016
... but nonetheless natural environments. Harryette Mullen's minimalist volume of poetry Urban Tumbleweed echoes Robinson's urban vision and the narrative of flânerie by which he explores the newly natural streets of large metropolises. Mullen's account of Los Angeles converges with Robinson's landscape of Mercury...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2018
... century's crowded new scenes of social interaction. Extending this work on urban form, McWeeny focuses on the microstylistic details of poetry, intricate effects of narrative structure, and aesthetic modes like the epigram. A major claim of the study is that the increased sensitivity to stranger relations...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 May 1999
... area
for scholarly and theoretical reflection: apartment studies. The fears of the pregnant
Rosemary Woodhouse and of the novel's readers may focus on the "private, hidden spaces"
of Rosemary's body and of her residence rather than on the urban eiterior. Nevertheless,
Marcus argues...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2003
... . Reeder , D. A. “A Theatre of Suburbs: Some Patterns of Development in West London, 1801–1911.” The Study of Urban History . Ed. H. J. Dyos London: Edward Arnold, 1968 . 253 –71. Restuccia , Frances L. “‘A Cave of My Own’: E. M. Forster and Sexual Politics.” Raritan 9.2 (Fall 1989...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom (New York:
Oxford UP, 2010), pp. 408, cloth, $29.95.
Let’s be clear here: Samuel Otter’s Philadelphia Stories is not simply a study of local color or
literary regionalism. Yet it is a study of the literatures of a particular place...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 May 2004
... some-
thing of a punchline in the contemporary popular zeitgeist. Yet Cook accomplishes more
than simply affirming the representational link between urbanity and gayness with care-
ful literary readings and shrewd archival work. His book is an achievement precisely be-
cause it contributes...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 122–127.
Published: 01 May 2024
... scale. Wasserman's study stretches the concept of ephemera quite wide, the things included within it ranging from paper objects such as comics and stamps to aging houses to dying urban infrastructure. How do responses to—attachments to and/or “investments” in—dying things vary across the range...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 May 2007
...FRANK CHRISTIANSON DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. HENKLE, The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 208, cloth, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Poverty and the Man
DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. I...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): iv.
Published: 01 November 2002
... Diego.
She is the author of C.L.R. James and Creolization: Circles of lnjluence.
JAMES KYUNG-JIN LEE is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin. He is currently completing a book project entitled Urban
Triage: Racial and Urban Crises...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): iv.
Published: 01 November 2001
... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Contvibutors
JOSEPH ENTIN is Lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University. His
work on turn-of-the-century narratives about urban America's "other half" is part of a
larger project entitled...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 53–72.
Published: 01 May 2007
... significance entirely associated with this topos.
A careful study of the sources (another irresistibly fluvial word) of Les paysans can be found in
Bodin's introduction to his edition of the Comidie fiumaine (5-48). The surface logic of a river
flowing from rural countryside to urban center...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 369–390.
Published: 01 November 2001
..... Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994 . 123 –54. Blackall , Jean Frantz . “The Experimental Period.” A Companion to Henry James Studies . Ed. Daniel Mark Fogel. Westport: Greenwood P, 1993 . 147 –78 BlairSara. “Documenting America: Racial Theater in The American Scene.” The Henry James Review 16...
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