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Wasted Value: The Serial Logic of H.g. Wells’s Tono-Bungay
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 May 1999
... . 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
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Literary Value and the Prizewinning African Novel
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Novel (2025) 58 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Liam Kruger Abstract What are the values implied by the 2021 boom in prizewinning African literature, and what are its implications for literary criticism? This essay considers three prizewinning African novelists—Damon Galgut, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Tsitsi Dangarembga—and their popular...
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Novel Values
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 279–282.
Published: 01 August 2017
...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...
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Capital Fictions in the Age of Fictitious Capital
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 360–379.
Published: 01 August 2022
...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...
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Letters and the Contemporary Novel: Materiality and Metaphor in Ian McEwan's The Children Act
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 November 2020
...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...
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If the Shoe Fits … Trollope and the Girl
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 268–277.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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...
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Pharmakos, Pharmakeus, and George Eliot's Narrative Rhetoric
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 217–235.
Published: 01 August 2017
...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...
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The Nothing in the Novel: Jane Austen and the Food Plot
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 368–388.
Published: 01 November 2012
...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...
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Thresholds of the Novel: Realism, the Inhuman, the Ethical in J. M. Coetzee's Foe
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 438–460.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 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 ©...
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Scale in Tess in Scale
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
... to an ongoing reconsideration of historical consciousness in the context of the climate crisis. Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles recursively activates scalar multiplicity: first, by dramatizing the intersection of scales of value, time, and space; and second, by suggesting that this drama may be understood...
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The Emergence of the Global South Novel: Red Sorghum , Présence Africaine , and the Third Novelists' International
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... literature into the mechanism of the world literary system, writers and translators transformed localism into an assimilable cult of culture. By looking at the shift of value in Chinese literature in the 1980s in relation to a change of consciousness in Euro-American literary culture in the same period...
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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
... 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...
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Emma' s Choices: Economics and Modern Narratives of Decision-Making
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 218–239.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., 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...
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“Too Domestic to Admit of Calculation”: Jane Austen and Narrative Economics
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 200–217.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of value. 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 recently caught the attention of economists eager to consider...
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In Praise of Happy Endings: Precarity, Sustainability, and the Novel
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 388–405.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Caroline Levine Abstract Open‐endedness is one of the most pervasive and enduring values in literary studies. Critics of all stripes have condemned teleology on both aesthetic and political grounds. This essay makes the paradoxical case that in an era of mass precarity, this insistence on openness...
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Faulkner's Glitches
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Nathan Wainstein Abstract Formalist novel criticism has a strange relationship to artistic failure. Although an array of twentieth-century theoretical frameworks have taught critics to find value and meaning in negative formal phenomena that may resemble writerly lapses (such as moments...
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Contemporary Transnational Historical Fiction: Forging Solidarities in the Global South Novel
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to the end of colonialism and the Cold War—that global South theorists are addressing. It concludes by arguing for the value of defining the genre of the global South novel intrinsically, from the content and form of the work, rather than extrinsically, on the basis of the author's origin, the place...
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Living on Pea-nuts: Gissing, Fiction, Subsistence
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 162–179.
Published: 01 August 2024
... seemed to personally believe that his own experiences of having “looked starvation in the face,” having passed through “circumstances of hunger” and converted them into art, were part of what gave his work value and meaning. But there is something of a paradox here, or at least an ambivalence...
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The Hero of This Novel Is a Tree: Biocentric Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Eco-fiction
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 22–43.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., such as Powers's portrayal of reverence for nonhuman nature. If reverence reveals the attachment of human values and emotions to nonhuman entities, it suggests how anthropocentrism might be harnessed for the benefit of the wider environment. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Novel, Inc. 2024...
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Reading Deliriously
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 23–26.
Published: 01 May 2012
... texts now participate in multiple cultures that trouble the boundaries between domestic and foreign, “us” and “them.” Reading deliriously outlines an approach to reading that values transnational circuits of comparison and aggregation for the way they might reconstruct the imagined reader as a navigator...
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