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“Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways”: Curiosity in Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... it repeated almost verbatim in the preface to A Backward Glance (1934), where being “insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways” (1990a, 771) is presented as the secret to a happy old age. The gist in both cases is the same: curiosity is praiseworthy when...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Taylor Johnston-Levy This article explores how antiracism cultivates happiness among white subjects and how that emotion alienates people of color. It argues that a cohort of twentieth-century African American writers critiqued this happy antiracism in their fiction, examining Richard Wright’s...
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Nella Larsen’s Quicksand , Recalcitrant Subjects, and Wrong Feeling
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 359–384.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Madison Priest Helga Crane, the heroine of Nella Larsen’s critically acclaimed 1928 novel, Quicksand , is a maddening protagonist. Hysterical, reactive, impulsive, and compulsive, she seems constitutionally incapable of finding any sort of happiness. In accounting for Helga’s frustrating...
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Metaphysical Horror in Samuel Beckett
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 329–362.
Published: 01 September 2023
... suffering and the “providential flesh” (448) of theology: “For affliction does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground; but human beings are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward” (5:6–7). 32 In Beckett’s terms could we call this a quest for a kind of happiness...
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Korean Modernism’s Transnational Epiphanies
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2023
... “soul” or “whatness” ( SH 218), the Korean epiphany tends to evoke an ambiguous constellation of individual happiness or liberation and larger social forces. The ironic distance the writers maintain from their narrators is crucial, for it brings into relief the intertextual structure of the epiphany...
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“The Shadow of a Past Time”: History and Graphic Representation in Maus
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 199–230.
Published: 01 June 2006
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Unsurprisingly, the last page of Maus does not have a page number; it is
not stamped with a linear logic of progression. In a way, Maus does end
the most traditional way a narrative can: with a literal claim of“happy ever
after.” And it ends the most literal way a biography can: with the death
of its...
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The Evolutionary Invention of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Conservation” of Race and George Schuyler’s Black No More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
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What intervenes between Schuyler’s narrative elimination and resuscita-
tion of race is a disturbingly macabre tale of the ironically named Happy
Hill, Mississippi. Like the larger novel, this tale begins by recording the
white anger over Black-No-More that Matthew Fisher observed...
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The Novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
... spun by Cal Stephanides, an American
o f Greek descent born to first-generation Greek American parents, who
pass down to him a rare genetic mutation that results in his being raised as
Calliope. His hermaphroditism goes undiscovered until his teens. Before
the discovery, he leads a mostly happy...
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Woolf’s Night and Day and the Free-Union Novel
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 437–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... toward modernism. Most readers in the nineteenth century would have been familiar with the marriage plot—a narrative that focuses on courtship and ends with a marriage or an engagement. In the world of the marriage plot, matrimony is the core of a woman’s life, and, accordingly, a happy ending...
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Nothing Flat Nothing Quite Flat
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 709–719.
Published: 01 December 2012
... called the exhibition’s
lukewarm reception “a scandal.”
5. Though Samuels declares the poem to be “in the key of pleasure,” the
phrase “Pleasure Seas” itself appears in the context of the poem as “the shallow
pleasure seas,” and the poem includes such facile, sarcastic jingles as “Happy...
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Freedoms in The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., everyone pretty much is what he is supposed to be”
(164). This is very much the sort of society Thomas Carlyle constructs
in Past and Present around the figure of Gurth, the swineherd from Scott’s
Ivanhoe. Gurth was happy, asserts Carlyle, because he had a definite place
in society...
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Stupidity, Intellect, and Hierarchy in Lawrence and Huxley
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 455–482.
Published: 01 December 2021
... for “genuinely passionate resistance.” In provoking such resistance, Sutherland urges, the genuinely new artwork points the way toward “happiness,” because it initiates an alternative form of aesthetic and political engagement. Like Ronell, Sutherland finds literary support for this argument in the poetry...
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On the Prize Essay
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): vi–x.
Published: 01 June 2007
... of their ideas in their
interests—economic, psychological, or corporeal.” I began my read
ing of this essay with a child’s attitude toward eating her vegetables,
or in consonance with the primary figurative path of the essay,
not very interested in a “happy marriage” between literature...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 377–398.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Enid agrees to
abandon hospital nursing at her father’s request: “Well, I hope that makes
you happy” (40), Enid’s mother tells her. Her mother’s use of the second-
person pronoun is significant, as the narrator makes clear:
Not “makes him happy.” “Makes you.” It seemed that her mother...
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Aldous Huxley’s Americanization of the Brave New World Typescript
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 427–460.
Published: 01 December 2002
... for
solitude.
A travesty of religious sentiment, the lines about Our Ford resemble
slogans such as “Everybody’s happy now,” one of many bromides brave
new worlders use to reassure themselves that the World State is the per
fect place. Given a bookless society of nonreaders, one doubts the Di
rector...
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May the Record Speak: The Correspondence of T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., it was not in her nature to complain, and she ends her story on a positive note: “The memory of the years when we were most together and so happy are mine always and I am grateful that this period brought some of his best writing, and an assured charming personality which perhaps I helped to stabilize.” She...
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Willa Cather’s Naivete
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
... under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die. . . . At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ( MÁ 19–20) This was published in September 1918...
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In This Corner: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 92–98.
Published: 01 March 2010
... words: “I am so happy, I
am so happy.”
All in all, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life will engage the layman inter-
ested in learning more about Hopkins while providing the scholar with
a valuable biographic tool that condenses years of research into a rivet-
ing narrative. Yet those familiar...
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What Bertha Knows: Proprietary Narration in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 437–465.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to Murry: “We know love and are happy—Bogey, really and truly how happy we are” ( Hankin 1988 : 48). 3 In both cases, the overemphasis suggests an attempt to convince. “Happiness,” Cooke (2008 : 88) observes of Bertha’s list here “does not need to reassure itself of its presence.” Really...
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Stream and Destination: Husserl, Subjectivity, and Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 309–342.
Published: 01 June 2013
...” she not only sees Shatov, but looks through him to life
itself “smiling at her secretly,” even as she views the twin obstacles of her
own resistance to happiness. The rational insistence that this is no time
to be happy joins forces with the irrational feeling that she is undeserv-
ing...
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