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2021
Abstract Bleak House is a novel saturated with figures of unsettlement, in which characters uprooted by their social conditions operate within a plot animated by unsettlement, in an affective world dominated by feelings of pity and sympathy for those who have been displaced. Thresholds recur in the novel as privileged sites of heightened
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Abstract Bleak House is a novel saturated with figures of unsettlement, in which characters uprooted by their social conditions operate within a plot animated by unsettlement, in an affective world dominated by feelings of pity and sympathy for those who have been displaced. Thresholds recur in the novel as privileged sites of heightened
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Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel
Choice Reviews Online, 2000In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character' prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning ...
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2022
The national novel emerged and operated within the serial form of ‘world literature’ created by the internationalism of 1848, and this chapter argues that Elizabeth Gaskell writes her first novel, Mary Barton (1848) deliberately ‘into’ a European tradition. It shows how important Manzoni’s novel I promessi sposi was to her development as a novelist and
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The national novel emerged and operated within the serial form of ‘world literature’ created by the internationalism of 1848, and this chapter argues that Elizabeth Gaskell writes her first novel, Mary Barton (1848) deliberately ‘into’ a European tradition. It shows how important Manzoni’s novel I promessi sposi was to her development as a novelist and
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History, the Historical Novel and Nation. The First Finnish Historical Novels as National Narrative
Neophilologus, 2002An active construction of the national identity in Finland started in the 1840s. A primary activity was the creation of the national narrative in fictional works. The novels now published were - unlike the dominant epical genre - able to present the national feeling in a modern nationalistic way. Especially the historical novel was the first nationally
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NIGHTS OF PLAGUE AS A POLITICAL NOVEL: NATION-BUILDING AND NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
2022At first glance Nights of Plague, a novel by Orhan Pamuk, seems like the story of a plague, it actually tells about the political transformation that has gained momentum after administrative problems and political crisis accelerated by the epidemic, though.
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