... . West , Anthony . H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life . New York: Random, 1984 . White , Henry K. History of the Union Pacific Railway . 1895. Clifton: Kelly, 1973 . Wasted Value: The Serial Logic of H.G. We11s 's Tono-Bungay WILLIAM KUPINSE In a passage...

...R. John Williams Boxall Peter , The Value of the Novel ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2015 ), pp. 202, paper, $17.99 . Copyright © 2017 by R. John Williams 2017 Peter Boxall's slim and elegant volume, The Value of the Novel , offers a deft, timely, and persuasive argument...

...Ryan Trimm Abstract Theories of money have divided between viewing it as a substance and seeing it as deriving from a field. Conceiving money as a substance finds it as an inert entity passively and stably transmitting already accumulated value; this view is often linked with literary realism...

... that disavows the disarticulating force of rhetoric itself. Linking Trollope's autobiography and novels to discourses on shoes and utility by Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, this essay draws out the compatibility of uselessness and value that Trollope performs even while explicitly championing utilitarian...

...Matthew Fellion This essay uses the concepts of the pharmakos and the pharmakeus from Derrida's “Plato's Pharmacy” to describe the relationship between George Eliot's scapegoated characters and the narrators that structure her novels' systems of value. Focusing in particular on Hans Meyrick...

...Kate Wilkinson Abstract Daily communication today is predominantly digital, but contemporary novels continue to be interested in paper letters. Why? What do letters, written on paper, offer to the novel in the twenty-first century? This essay explores the material letter's contemporary value...

...Michael Parrish Lee This essay argues that modern Anglo-American reading practices are structured by a system of value that defines the social against material appetite. This system of value is at root novelistic, based in an uneven narrative and characterological dichotomy between sexual desire...

... unity. This article demonstrates this post‐global conceptualization through two of 2020’s most successful novels: Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown . What, then, is the analytic value of worldwide comparisons for a post‐global movement? To answer this question, the US...

... of value. sarah.comyn@ucd.ie Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 Jane Austen Thomas Malthus David Ricardo political economy Bank Restriction Act interest Attuned to the social, moral, and financial implications of purchasing power—or its comparative lack—Jane Austen's novels have...

..., idiosyncratic preferences rather than following socially sanctioned value systems. While Emma represents preferential choice and illustrates its connection to consumer capitalism, unlike neoclassical economists, the novel ultimately exhibits skepticism toward this modern model of decision-making...

...Gene Andrew Jarrett I examine the political value of The Wind Done Gone (2001), Alice Randall's parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), according to the 2001 court case SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Company . Houghton Mifflin's defense of Randall's novel from the Stephens...

... history and its knowing debt to natural theology. This borrowing included a delimited focus of attention on small objects or minute areas; the requirement to dilate at length upon such detail, finding much in the small and the quotidian; and the absolute value of close attention upon the detail, which...

...Margaret Cohen From Ian Watt's reading of Robinson Crusoe , novel critics valuing realism as the highest expression of the form have tried to domesticate adventure fiction and the rambling dispositions of its protagonists. In contrast, this essay argues that such rambling explores a foundational...

... submission. The essay thus engages with the recent affirmations of detachment as a critical value in the work of scholars like Amanda Anderson and David Wayne Thomas; but where these critics have stressed the Victorian ideal of detachment as a goal to be worked at, Eliot's vision of the novel reader...

...Bruce Robbins “Too Much Information” takes issue with critic James Wood's charge that “information” plays a disproportionate and aesthetically unfortunate role in many of the larger and more ambitious novels recently published in English. It makes a case for the value of information. It does so...

... may mark not realism's failure but its productive transfiguration. Just as the divergence between wealthy accumulators and the rest of us had to be planned, fought for, and legislated into existence over the last few decades, so too any return to the earlier values of solidarity must be envisioned...

...Héctor Hoyos Abstract New materialist approaches to the novel call into question the hermeneutical value of suspicion and critique. Meanwhile, historical materialism tends to neglect aspects of form, focusing instead on social function. Drawing from Las comidas profundas (1997), by Cuban writer...

... of literary, cultural, and commercial value. The novel is a special kind of import produced self-consciously through translation that resituates the original form. The novel at large, early Arab novelists show us, is not a form that is translated but one formed in and by translation. Copyright © 2015...

... literary artifacts—how different kinds of value accrue to them—thanks to the social-indexical relations established through their use. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Marcel Proust language-in-use pragmatics indexicality sociology context Imagine listening...

... and the Foe ur-text to argue that the novel proposes an impossible crossing, whereby key strategies we have used to value the genre—its capacity to summon countervoices or to invoke an ethical response to alterity—are shadowed by a radical question about the limits of our readerly attention. Copyright ©...