...Bede Scott Abstract Situated at the intersection of postcolonialism and affect studies, this essay explores the significance of wonder in Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees (2013). In her novel, Yanagihara provides a detailed account of an anthropological expedition to the remote...

... the epistemological uncertainty that each text represents. Crusoe and Hume model how such epistemological uncertainty might be a source of pleasing wonder by exhibiting an attitude of viewing the ordinary as if it were rare, and the illusory as if it were real—and by extension the real as if it were illusory...

...Barbara M. Benedict The final chapter moves into the Regency with Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , two texts fairly often paired for their metafictional qualities. Tindal Kareem sees both works as critiquing wonder, and she sees its role in constructing...

... and cleaning, leads rre to wonder whether Mercado's writing is as completely "free" of the "legacy of patriarchy" as Prieto declares, I nonetheless agree that her narrative strives for a women's writing that is not simply a response to or reaction against patriarchal models. What I liked best about...

... 41 . 4 ( 2008 ): 481 – 506 . The Country Journal, or the Craftsman . 13 August 1737 . Daniels Stephen . Joseph Wright . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1999 . Daston Lorraine Park Katharine . Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 . New York : Zone , 1998...

...” is a wonderful exegesis of Dickens's immensely complicated response to animals as pets on one end of the spectrum and as meat on the other. Kreilkamp stresses Dickens's anxiety about “the tendency of life toward voracious consumption,” an anxiety that compels Dickens to focus on bodily decomposition...

... quite plausible that “Austen embraced memories conjured up by her redeployment of famous names, apparently delighting in upending and redirecting established associations” (5). Still, I cannot help but wonder how much more fascinating this book might have been had it brought its claims about fact...

... of the carefully crafted form of each chapter, I sometimes found myself wondering about the connections between chapters. What is the relationship between the first chapter's discussion of travel and travel narratives and the second's focus on “transport” (60)? Are travel and transport distinct forms or different...

... its power to per- suade, a new kind of narrative claims to satisfy the reader's need for more ra- tional fare by "bring[ing] about natural events by easy means, and keep[ing] up curiosity without the help of wonder" (175). Rambler 4 thus plots English fic- tion's entrance into the modern...

... others) easily lend themselves to the task of articulating an Orientalist representation of American economic modernity. But the reader is left to wonder how the xemqly regional variant represented by London and Norris is related to the whole nexus of writers referred to under the rubrics...

... and voids; so that with a systematic surface possibly beyond reproach we would neverthlessfail ofclearness ofsense. I should have to stretch the matter to what my wondering witness materially and inevitably saw; a great deal of which she either wouldn't understand at all or wotdd quite...

... in his introduction, Tawil offers two suggestive prompts that exhibit the book's attention to origin points in order to upend critical doxa. In one sweeping challenge to the implications of our habitual frames for periodization, Tawil wonders why the field prefers the label “post-Revolutionary” over...

... © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Contributors franco moretti is Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Litera- ture at Stanford University. His books include Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern...

.... Florence: Le Monnier, 2008 . Moretti , Franco . Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms . New York: Verso, 2005 . Perrault , Charles . Les contes en vers et en prose . New York: Dover, 2003 . Pope , Rebecca . “Writing and Biting in Dracula.” Byron 68 –92...

...). As a reader, I wondered how the preservation of documents both within and without the BBC works in tandem with colonial archive fever more generally and the control of memory as it canonizes and, in so doing, helps construct the object of study known as the global Anglophone novel. The loss of the sonic...

... for signs of emerging future life. Having completed an encyclopedic survey of sectional and racial divide fictions brought down as close to the present as Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone , Buell wonders how the Southwest or gringo/Latino border might organize new candidates for the Great American Novel...

... was asked if there were any popular influences in his work, he replied, “Oh, sure, I use anything from movies to comic strips” (Graham and Singh 362). A decade earlier, Ellison told a group of writers and publishers that “the individual man . . . is more apt to get a sense of wonder, a sense of self...

..., and literature draw, represents Flint's most compelling depiction of a Victo- rian interdisciplinarity. Reading Eliot's The Lzffed Veil alongside medical texts on transfu- sion, Flint offers a wonderful link between mental prevision and the medical imagination when she quotes G.H. Lewes's description...

... the facile or embodied ones—like formal difficulty that demands new and often onerous reading practices. Pleasure, then, is situated somewhere within the great and ambivalent divide of high-low culture, and its reconception, Frost claims, is one of modernism's defining aims. Her readings are wonderful, from...

... delectation. Joyce's structural conceits, incessant formal innovations, and stylistic pyrotechnics may indeed prevent anyone not working in the US Post Office circa 1919 from reading Ulysses as a work of pornography, but is the wonder- fully lusty attention Joyce's text pays to the body and its...