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"Nauseous Fiction": Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science Novel, 1900–1910 Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Anne Stiles
Abstract: In Science and Health (1875), Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) discouraged followers from reading “nauseous fiction,” that is, “[n]ovels, remarkable only for their exaggerated pictures, impossible ideals, and specimens of depravity” (195). This essay examines Eddy’s views on fiction alongside Christian Science novels written around 1900 by followers such as Clara Louise
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Meat, Flesh, Skin: The Carnality Of The Secret Agent Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ivan Kreilkamp
Abstract: This essay considers Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent in relation to what I will suggest are several relevant intertexts or sources for it—including Upton Sinclair’s famous muckraking 1906 exposé of the conditions in the Chicago stockyards, The Jungle, as well as Classical mythological tales depicting “cannibal feasts.” I point to these sources in order to argue that Conrad uses the novel
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Identifying with Terrorists: Reading and Writing Others In Sunjeev Sahota's Ours Are the Streets Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Peter Morey
Abstract: Sunjeev Sahota’s novel Ours Are the Streets tells the story of a young British Muslim man’s path to radicalization. It appears to be another fictional attempt to ‘get inside’ the terrorist mind. This essay argues, however, that the text dramatizes the pitfalls of empathic identification via a focalizing character whose mental state becomes unstable and his narrative increasingly unreliable
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Slow Violence and the California Central Valley Prison in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Trevor Jackson
Abstract: This essay interrogates the carceral geography of the California Central Valley by examining Rachel Kushner’s novel The Mars Room (2018), which unfolds the life and limiting circumstances of a woman serving two life sentences. With capitalism as the driving force and background of this novel, this article examines the problem of representation posed by the prison in American society. Does
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War's Implications: Missionaries and the Global War Novel Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Brian J. Williams
Abstract: This article argues that US war literature hinges on nationalistic, exclusionary narratives that are inadequate for the complexities of globalized warfare. Drawing on theories of the global novel, with its focus on individual action within complex systems, this piece considers Phil Klay’s Missionaries as a global war novel that foregrounds how an embrace of chaos and contingency enables new
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The Author As Social Production Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sarah Brouillette
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Author As Social Production Sarah Brouillette SINYKIN, DAN. Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 328 pp. Paperback $30.00; hardcover $120.00; e-book $29.99. SAPIRO, GISÈLE. The Sociology of Literature. Trans. Madeline Bedecarré and Ben Libman
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Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India by Stacey Balkan (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India by Stacey Balkan Elizabeth Carolyn Miller BALKAN, STACEY. Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2022. 216 pp. $99.99 hardcover; $29.99 paper; $29.99 e-book. Stacey Balkan’s Rogues
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Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction by Benjamin Bateman (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Michael Dango
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction by Benjamin Bateman Michael Dango BATEMAN, BENJAMIN. Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 208 pp. $85.00 hardcover; $85.00 e-book. The superfine close readings of Benjamin Bateman’s Queer Disappearance
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Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege by Adam Parkes (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Alex Murray
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege by Adam Parkes Alex Murray PARKES, ADAM. Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 336 pp. $100.00 hardcover. As is perhaps appropriate for the subject at hand, Adam Parkes has written a monumental, authoritative
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Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science by Patrick Whitmarsh (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Erin James
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science by Patrick Whitmarsh Erin James WHITMARSH, PATRICK. Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science. Stanford University Press, 2023. 209 pp. $80.00 hardcover; $26.00 paper. In the opening pages of Patrick Whitmarsh’s Writing Our Extinction
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Contributors Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2024-03-01
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Trevor Jackson received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities in 2018 from the University of California, Merced. He teaches at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Ivan Kreilkamp is Professor of English at Indiana University and a co-editor of Victorian Studies. He has published three books: Voice and
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Introduction: Novel Futures Beyond Times of Crisis Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Angela Yang Du, Tara MacDonald
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: Novel Futures Beyond Times of Crisis Angela Yang Du (bio) and Tara MacDonald (bio) “Reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time.” – Maxine Waters, 2017 During a United States committee hearing in 2017, Congresswoman Maxine Waters interrupted Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin with this now notorious phrase.
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Reading the Victorian Novel's Future in Never Let Me Go Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Angela Yang Du
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) exemplifies the contemporary Anglophone novel’s inheritance of the Victorian novel. Specifically, it reworks this historical genre’s thematization of an unchanging present for marginalized subjects. In Ishiguro’s counterfactual Britain, cloned beings are raised for organ harvesting. The predetermined condition of their trajectories applies to countless Victorian
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Feeling Angry: White Creole Cognition in Jean Rhys's Novels of Slow Futurity Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Valentina Montero Román
This essay reads Jean Rhys’s early twentieth-century novels through theories of slowness developing in fields like eco-criticism, disability studies, and feminist studies. Reading Rhys through these paradigms suggests that her novels can be understood not just as noting the limitations of narratives of progressive development and their temporalities, but as offering a different way for narrating humanity
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"Things Done and Undone": Zora Neale Hurston's Temporality of Refusal Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Aristides Dimitriou
This essay argues that temporality becomes inseparable from the intersectionality of race and gender in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. By emphasizing the need to negotiate unequal, androcentric conventions, Hurston historicizes the experience of time as predetermined, restricting, and subjugating from the position of a Black female subjectivity. In response, Hurston develops a strange
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Growing Absurd: Sexuality, Development, and Virgin Time in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Julyan Oldham
This article proposes that virginity is a site of strange temporality in the modern novel, one that demonstrates the value of studying time and sexuality as intertwined concepts. With reference to late nineteenth-century ideas of time and development, I theorize ‘virgin time’ as a narrative mode in which a sexual future is constantly expected but never arrives. The article goes on to explore how Dorothy
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Alimentary Temporalities: Queer Food, Asexuality, and the Global Culinary-Roman Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bonnie Shishko
This essay explores the queer temporalities figured within “culinary-romane”: those contemporary, coming-of-age novels that use food to interrogate the literary construct of the female journey. In opposition to the female Bildungsroman, which maps maturation via hegemonic temporal structures—historical, narrative, reproductive—the culinary-roman cleaves development from heteropatriarchal time. Instead
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"History Digs a Shallow Grave": Queer Temporality in Emily M. Danforth's Lesbian Gothic Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Rachel M. Friars
Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines (2020) revels in the disruption of time through erotic physicality. Because the Gothic and the queer break the bounds of normative constructions of time, the horror of Plain Bad Heroines arrives in the effect that queer Gothic time has on queer bodies by allowing them to delight in rejecting linearity while they run the risk of destabilizing their identities as they encounter
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Zadie Smith Brings Time into the House: Embodied Temporalities in NW Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Cynthia Quarrie
This paper takes a new look at the relationship between Zadie Smith’s widely-discussed 2008 essay, “Two Paths for the Novel,” and her subsequent experimental novel, NW (2012), focusing on Smith’s critique of Tom McCarthy’s implicitly post-racial and masculinist avant-garde aesthetic. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s image of the well-worn path (to which her phrase “strange temporalities” is attached), as well
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Temporalities Beyond Transition: Form, Genre, and Contemporary Trans Novels Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Chiara Pellegrini
Popular narratives about trans identity traditionally rely on a metaphorical understanding of trans embodiment as a linear and unidirectional journey. This paper discusses how this temporality is questioned, reshaped, interrupted, and sidestepped in five recent novels by trans and non-binary authors: Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (2021), Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017)
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Contributors Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-11-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Aristides Dimitriou (PhD, UC Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor of English at Gettysburg College where he teaches courses on ethnic literatures of the US and hemispheric American studies. His work has been published in MELUS, Arizona Quarterly, and College Literature. He is currently developing a book that examines how US
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Specters of Utopia in Mary Barton Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Roberto del Valle Alcalá
Abstract: This article offers a substantial reinterpretation of Mary Barton in terms of Robert Owen's ideas, especially as outlined in his early tract A New View of Society. The article contends that Gaskell's novel stages a significant reassessment of the transformative possibilities of nineteenth-century paternalism. It also suggests, drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, that the reformist aspirations
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"Floated invincibly": Animating Character in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Pamela L. Weidman
Abstract: This essay uses early twentieth-century animation to understand Marcel Proust's surprisingly minimalist approach to detail, and how In Search of Lost Time reworks the connection between the limits of description and autonomous character. Proust's Search and films by Georges Méliès and Émile Cohl share a guiding concern with how to bring characters "to life" out of relatively simple elements
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Alien Domesticity: Settler-Capitalist Invasion and the Limits of Representation in Ling Ma's Severance Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Iana W. Robitaille
Abstract: This article reads Ling Ma's Severance (2018) for its account of the racial entanglement of transnational mobility, settler capitalism, and homemaking, a dynamic referred to as alien domesticity. The novel narrativizes how the transnational circulation of capital, peoples, and labor over the past four decades has complicated the domestic character of US settler-racial form—and the settler-capitalist
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The Politics of Genre Migration in Gary Shteyngart's Our Country Friends Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Liliana M. Naydan
Abstract: This article considers the hybrid form and content of Our Country Friends through the lens of Gary Shteyngart's Russian-Jewish immigrant experience, arguing that through references to Chekhov's plays and reality television Shteyngart portrays the migratory movement of performance as a genre amid the viral spread of Covid-19 in the US. The genre migration that Shteyngart generates in his novel
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The Global and the Multilinear: Novelistic Forms for Planetary Processes Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Marco Caracciolo
Abstract: Numerous scholars have argued that narrative multilinearity defines the contemporary novel's engagement with planetary processes ranging from globalization to ecological and migrant crises. This article seeks to develop and clarify the notion of multilinearity, adopting a narratological framework that distinguishes between three dimensions of multilinear novels—what I call their linkage,
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The Proustian Mind ed. by Anna Elsner and Thomas Stern (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Bryan Counter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Proustian Mind ed. by Anna Elsner and Thomas Stern Bryan Counter ELSNER, ANNA, and THOMAS STERN, eds. The Proustian Mind. London: Routledge, 2023. 494 pp. $250.00 hardback; $56.95 e-book. This edited collection comes at a time of many evaluations of Proust's work, influence, and contribution to various fields. Here, the
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The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language: All at Sea by Matthew P. M. Kerr (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Kyle McAuley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language: All at Sea by Matthew P. M. Kerr Kyle McAuley KERR, MATTHEW P. M. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language: All at Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 304 pp. $80.00 cloth; $80.00 e-book. Literary scholars of race, empire, and the environment,
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Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time by Barbara Leckie (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Tobias Wilson-Bates
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time by Barbara Leckie Tobias Wilson-Bates LECKIE, BARBARA. Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2022. 274 pp. $90.00 hardcover; $30.00 paperback; $16.50 e-book (Kindle). Barbara Leckie's new
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Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century by Thomas Salem Manganaro (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Stephanie Insley Hershinow
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century by Thomas Salem Manganaro Stephanie Insley Hershinow MANGANARO, THOMAS SALEM. Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022
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Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory by Oana Panaïté (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 George S. MacLeod
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory by Oana Panaïté George S. MacLeod PANAÏTÉ, OANA. Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. 216 pp. $143.00 hardcover. The term "Necrofiction" in Oana Panaïté's Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory does not simply
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Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Stacey Balkan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart Stacey Balkan STEWART, ANNE. Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 279 pp. $104.00 cloth; $26.00 paperback; $26.00 e-book. Within the transdisciplinary field of Environmental
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Limited Access: Transport Metaphors and Realism in the British Novel, 1740–1860 by Kyoko Takanashi (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Katie Lanning
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Limited Access: Transport Metaphors and Realism in the British Novel, 1740–1860 by Kyoko Takanashi Katie Lanning TAKANASHI, KYOKO. Limited Access: Transport Metaphors and Realism in the British Novel, 1740–1860. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. 241 pp. $115.00 cloth; $39.50 paper; $39.50 e-book. Kyoko Takanashi's
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Contributors Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-09-02
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of several books, including most recently Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) and Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality (De Gruyter, 2023). Roberto
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Sense and Sensibility as Social-Epistemic System Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Aaron R. Hanlon
Abstract: This article examines systems of inductive and deductive reasoning in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811), placing Austen’s first novel in a longer historical context of how novels functioned as systems of social epistemology, or of scaling-up social knowledge. In so doing, this article demonstrates how Marianne, typically read as the unsystematic counterpart to her rational older
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"You Had to be a Crank to Insist On Being Right": Saul Bellow's Comedy Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Andrew Dean
Abstract: The article considers the nature and value of comic expression in Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970). It begins by taking note of the many public statements Bellow made about the stifling qualities of what he came to call “low seriousness,” the mode he saw as alive in mid-century literary reception. It then shows how Bellow’s comic strategies revise his otherwise overwhelming tendency
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"Orgasm of Nostalgia": Narrative and Sexual Desire in Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere Man Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Matthew Joseph Helm
Abstract: This essay encounters Aleksander Hemon’s Nowhere Man (2002) in light of Bosnian War refugee Jozef Pronek’s geocorporeality: the extent to which issues of geopolitical consequence are inscribed onto his body as well as the bodies of those who desire him. In evoking Peter Brooks as a precedent for reading erotic desire alongside narrative desire, I argue that Nowhere Man’s fraught representations
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Kamila Shamsie's Transnational Households and the Intimate Violence of the State Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Maureen Moynagh
Abstract: Against Nancy Armstrong’s recent contention that contemporary novelists have “declared the household obsolete as a way of imagining national community,” I analyze Kamila Shamsie’s attention to fractures in the nation-state in the era of transnational mobility and affiliations in Home Fire (2017) and Burnt Shadows (2009), works that make the household central. I argue that what initially seems
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The Survival of Specters: Hauntology and Richard Powers's The Overstory Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Kazutaka Sugiyama
Abstract: Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018) is acclaimed for its depiction of structural similarity between collectives of different species that analogously connects human and nonhuman others, such as trees and computer programs. In this essay I argue that, among the various forms of nonhuman existence in the novel, specters in particular are central to the narrative and deserve critical consideration
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Joyce Writing Disability ed. by Jeremy Colangelo (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Layne Parish Craig
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joyce Writing Disability ed. by Jeremy Colangelo Layne Parish Craig COLANGELO, JEREMY, ed. Joyce Writing Disability. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2022. 226 pp. $85.00 hardcover; $85.00 e-book. In the introduction to Joyce Writing Disability, editor Jeremy Colangelo quotes a line from Michael Bérubé’s The Secret
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Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie Degooyer (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Juliet Shields
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie Degooyer Juliet Shields DEGOOYER, STEPHANIE. Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 202 pp. $94.95 hardcover; $34.95 paperback; $34.95 e-book. Stephanie DeGooyer declares two
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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History by Linda Garber (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Stephanie Andrea Allen
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Novel Approaches to Lesbian History by Linda Garber Stephanie Andrea Allen GARBER, LINDA. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. 188 pp. $119.99 hardcover; $32.99 cloth; $24.99 e-book. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History’s central claim is that lesbian historical fiction serves two
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Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King's IT by Whitney S. May (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Tracy A. Stephens
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s IT by Whitney S. May Tracy A. Stephens MAY, WHITNEY S., ed. Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s IT. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 204 pp. $99.00 hardcover; $30.00 cloth. Encountering Pennywise is a collection of essays
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9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels by Danel Olson (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Caitlin Simmons
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels by Danel Olson Caitlin Simmons OLSON, DANEL. 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 230 pp. $100.00 hardcover; $45.00 e-book. In 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma
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Contributors Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-06-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Andrew Dean is a lecturer in writing and literature at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. His first academic book, Metafiction and the Postwar Novel: Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. He is currently researching comic tones in the work of Jewish American writers after
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"Reverse, else, the medal": Femininity as Masquerade in Frances Burney's The Wanderer Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Jie Zhuang
Abstract: This article examines the trope of the masquerade in The Wanderer, arguing that Frances Burney uses the novel as a narrative form to voice her feminist perspective on the essence of female character, critiquing patriarchal ideologies under the mask of proper femininity. The novel not only configures femininity as masquerade but also masquerades itself as a conventional text that endorses
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The Chaneysville Incident and the Research Narrative in Contemporary African American Literature Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Courtney Thorsson
Abstract: The research narrative is a genre of contemporary African American novels told from the narrow point of view of one character who is obsessive in their frustrating and pleasurable pursuit of knowledge through long periods of textual study. The protagonist of a research narrative is often affiliated with an institution of higher education. Research narratives are littered with dissertations
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Unfairy Tales and Other Refugee Stories: Creating Relations through the Humanitarian Imagination in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Gabriella Pishotti
Abstract: Contrary to many analyses of refugee narratives that focus on how their subject matter becomes compromised by issues of authority, believability, and expectation, this article explores how refugee novels such as Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread lean into such problems in a way that appeals to the humanitarian imagination. These novels recognize the incomprehensibility
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The Work of Art in the Age of Transnational Reproduction: Form and Intertextuality in Xiaolu Guo's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and A Lover's Discourse Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Alex Tickell
Abstract: This article analyzes two of Xiaolu Guo's works: her debut novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007), and her most recent fiction, at the time of writing, A Lover's Discourse (2020), and redresses a critical bias in readings of Guo's creative engagement with language and translation by concentrating instead on Guo's use of fragmentary 'lexicographic' form. I suggest that
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Politics, the Environment, and the Novel: An Interview with Ann Pancake Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Jeffrey J. Williams
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Politics, the Environment, and the Novel:An Interview with Ann Pancake Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) When we hear news about the environment, it often seems distant and abstract. Ann Pancake's novel, Strange as This Weather Has Been (Counterpoint, 2007), makes us see the effects of environmental damage more immediately, showing what the fossil
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The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism by S. Pearl Brilmyer (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 David Sweeney Coombs
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism by S. Pearl Brilmyer David Sweeney Coombs BRILMYER, S. PEARL. The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 296 pp. $30.00 paper; $105.00 cloth; $29.99 e-book. What was Victorian
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Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Kristy L. Ulibarri
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat Brady Kristy L. Ulibarri BRADY, MARY PAT. Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $104.95 cloth; $27.95 paperback; $15.37 e-book. Mary Pat Brady's work has been a cornerstone in Chicanx
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Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play by Tina Young Choi (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 John Macneill Miller
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play by Tina Young Choi John Macneill Miller CHOI, TINA YOUNG. Victorian Contingencies: Experiments in Literature, Science, and Play. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 264 pp. $65.00 hardcover. There is something counterintuitive about reviewing Tina
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Narrative in the Anthropocene by Erin James (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Heather Houser
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Narrative in the Anthropocene by Erin James Heather Houser JAMES, ERIN. Narrative in the Anthropocene. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022. 234 pp. $79.95 hardcover; $49.95 e-book. What must a narrative theory of the Anthropocene encompass? What might it accomplish? And, backing up a step, what is the Anthropocene
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Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals by Dominic O'key (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Sundhya Walther
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals by Dominic O'key Sundhya Walther O'KEY, DOMINIC. Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 202 pp. $115.00 hardcover; $39.95 paperback; $103.50 e-book. In Creaturely Forms in Contemporary
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Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Talia Schaffer (review) Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Erika Wright
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction by Talia Schaffer Erika Wright SCHAFFER, TALIA. Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 296 pp. $45.00 hardcover; $45.00 e-book. Readers of Talia Schaffer's Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of
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Contributors Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-03-28
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Lauren M. Brown is an assistant professor of English at Albion College, where she teaches various courses in American and contemporary literature and college writing. Her research is focused at the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and nation in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. She has recently published
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Reading Novel Experience, Sensational Fictions, and The Impressionable Reader in M. E. Braddon's Joshua Haggard's Daughter Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Scott C. Thompson
Abstract: Mary Elizabeth Braddon was on the frontlines of defense against the critics of the sensation novel, a genre she defended as both influential author and editor. This article argues that Braddon’s Joshua Haggard’s Daughter (1876), her final novel to appear in Belgravia under her editorship, actively challenges the criticism of the sensation genre. Braddon incorporates new elements to her defense
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Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker's Dracula Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Ji Eun Lee
Abstract: Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban structure securing human control over animals. Yet
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Past as Presence and the Promise of Futurity in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach Studies in the Novel Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Sarah Stunden
Abstract: This article employs the comparable theoretical frames of Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo)’s “achronology” and James Phelan’s “anachrony” to examine the role of haunting in Eden Robinson (Haisla/Heitsuk)’s Monkey Beach. Focalized through the perspective of Lisamarie Hill, a developing medicine woman, the novel portrays Lisa’s struggles to envision a future beyond her own present, marked by