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{"title":"Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene by Tore Rye Andersen (review)","authors":"Patrick Whitmarsh","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935475","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene</em> by Tore Rye Andersen <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Patrick Whitmarsh </li> </ul> ANDERSEN, TORE RYE. <em>Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 228 pp. $110.00 hardcover. <p>Those of us in the niche subfield of Pynchon studies—Pynheads, if you please—have long debated the inner order or logic that governs the author's inimitable corpus. In <em>Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene</em>, Tore Rye Andersen deals a massive hand to this critical gambit, structured around extensive readings and contextual analyses of Pynchon's three most substantial works: <em>Gravity's Rainbow</em> (1973), <em>Mason & Dixon</em> (1997), and <em>Against the Day</em> (2006). Treating these works as \"one coherent megatext\" (20), Andersen argues for Pynchon as a writer of what we might call the global process of modernity—a protracted history from the rise of capitalism to World War II. Hardly a history of incremental progress, Pynchon's vision channels the \"dark side of the growth scenarios of modernity\" (11), the subtractions, negations, and depletions that make possible an ideology of Euro-American supremacy. Erecting a conceptual bridge from the colonial and imperial discourses that inform modern global capitalism to the critical environmentalisms that make up the growing field of Anthropocene studies, Andersen delivers an ambitiously conceived and deeply rewarding analysis of one the most important American novelists of the post−World War II era.</p> <p>In a broad sense, <em>Planetary Pynchon</em> pushes through and beyond foundational postmodernist and historiographic readings of the author by such critics as David Cowart, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian McHale, yet does so in a way that builds on this earlier work. Reading Pynchon at the planetary scale, Andersen underscores the way the author's global novels highlight and even formally embody the contingency of historical development: \"in historical nodal points like those depicted in Pynchon's world-historical novels, we are rather faced with a multiplexity of possible paths, none of which seem to lead to any safety\" (48). Paired with an Anthropocene environmentalism, Andersen's emphasis finds rejuvenated meaning. The unnumbered and ever-dividing potentialities that perpetually regenerate across human history mirror the complex array of biophysical feedback loops that unspool over planetary time. As Andersen's argument goes, Pynchon's global trilogy clarifies the correlation between these scales: the \"world-historical depiction of the forceful spread of modernity across the globe is also the story of the growth of the Anthropocene\" (161).</p> <p>Andersen develops his argument by moving through Pynchon's nov","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dreaming of Manderley: Individualism, Aging, and the Novel","authors":"Laura Schrock Crawford","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935472","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay examines how Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel <i>Rebecca</i> maps the <i>bildungsroman</i> journey of self-development in youth onto the process of self-decline in age, creating an uncanny structure that forfeits the climactic achievement of an ultimate self as bodied forth by the traditional novel. This ultimate self is a fantasy of Western individualism that reflects its historical devaluation of the limitations of the body and the associated necessity of human interdependence and care. The limited selfhood achieved by the narrator undercuts the individualist ideal of perpetual self-expansion and leaves her haunted by its fantasy of aristocratic power, represented by the Manderley estate and its former mistress, the titular first Mrs. de Winter. The concrete losses attributable to the aging process thus double in <i>Rebecca</i> as the subversion of individualism's ideal.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Cursed Circle: Confronting Patriarchal and Colonizing Legacies in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic","authors":"Alejandra Ortega","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's <i>Mexican Gothic</i> (2020), the Doyle family home of High Place is a living, breathing structure. The home indelibly retains memories of dead women within its walls that it uses to communicate with the novel's protagonist, Noemí Taboada. Moreno-Garcia uses this supernatural home to address legacies of violence against women and minorities by staging the colonizer-colonized relationship for Noemí in areas of the home that are typically viewed as feminine or private, intimate spaces. She furthers this discussion by reshaping a typically European genre for a new audience while critically examining a contentious period of Mexico's history. Through an intersection of spatial theory, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism, this essay analyzes the way Moreno-Garcia constructs a haunting domestic space to confront patriarchal and colonizing legacies that are often suppressed in cultural and literary memory.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dislocating the Language of Modernity in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason","authors":"Derek Ettensohn","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Engaging with Amitav Ghosh's recent essays that link imperial modernity's mechanistic view of the world to the novel's failure to imagine climate change, this article examines how Ghosh's fiction attempts to dislocate narratives of modernity to reveal a world constructed by capital and naturalized through reason. Drawing on the work of postcolonial theorists on the introduction of Western science to India, this article returns to Ghosh's first novel, <i>The Circle of Reason</i>, to focus on the intimate scale of the transformations that imperial modernity enacted on the human body and psyche. Though underrepresented in scholarship on Ghosh, this novel is a critical site for understanding Ghosh's view of how the ideology of modernity gets entrenched as scientific reason, reshaping humankind's relationship with the human body and the surrounding world. The novel's representation of the body, moreover, proposes an intimate and uncanny space that discloses alternative ways of imagining the world.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times by Betty Joseph (review)","authors":"Anne Stewart","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935477","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times&lt;/em&gt; by Betty Joseph &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Anne Stewart &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; JOSEPH, BETTY. &lt;em&gt;From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical Times&lt;/em&gt;. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. 235 pp. $114.95 hardcover; $34.95 paperback; $34.95 e-book. &lt;p&gt;Betty Joseph's &lt;em&gt;From Empire to Anthropocene&lt;/em&gt; is driven by a provocative premise: literary and critical theory, particularly as it is engaged with questions of globality and globalization, pays a lot of attention to space, but what if we paid more attention to time? Joseph's introduction makes a case for a critical reorientation toward temporal axes: in a present moment marked by geopolitical and ecological strife, what we encounter again and again are contests over not so much what time it is, but whose time? Joseph calls this the force of \"chronopolitics,\" captured in rhetorical contests such as those embedded in the Trump campaign slogan: \"Make America Great &lt;em&gt;Again&lt;/em&gt;\" (for whom? since when?), and in the race to &lt;em&gt;slow&lt;/em&gt; the Covid-19 pandemic (the speed of the virus a temporality at odds with the speed of global flows). Joseph identifies contests over temporality as increasingly definitive of a ruptured or \"uneven\" contemporaneity that challenges conceptions of globality and of how we understand contemporary literature. What timeline is this? To whom does it belong? To whom (and to when) does the future belong? The project asks readers to think about how novelistic narration of lived experience cuts across multiple different timelines, presenting \"a conflict over time\" (151) that challenges theorists with perhaps greater questions of unevenness than those already offered by geo-critical theories of the spatial.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The book's title, which does not mention globalization or temporality, can best be understood as tracking our shifting understandings of globalization, first as the expansion of colonial empires and the creation of a capitalist world system, and then as a world remade &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 327]&lt;/strong&gt; two times over into a problem of planetarity posed by anthropogenic climate change. Across five chapters, Joseph takes us from postcolonialist considerations of \"migrant temporality\" (57), to retheorizations of Manuel Castells's network society and the neoliberal global marketplace via the \"bumps, delays, and lags\" that trouble the smooth operations of global flows (97), and finally to the time of global environmental crisis. Each chapter is theoretically dense as it takes up a different complex of temporalities, critical concepts, and rhetorical figures used by the novels under investigation. The final chapter, for example, looks at the temporality of environmental change as it operates through the assemblages found in the proleptic d","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"I wouldn't trust that map\": Fraudulent Geographies in Late Victorian Lost World Novels","authors":"Elly Mccausland","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935470","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article examines the connection between the late Victorian lost world novel and the fraudulent or flawed maps that frequently punctuate its narratives. Drawing on sociological risk theory, it argues that the model of adventure structuring these texts is one of liminality and 'experiential tension,' and that their fraudulent geographies are a spatial counterpart to this liminal model. They promote an adventure characterized by perpetual potential and possibility, one we might more accurately term 'meta-adventure.' This model was central to both the imperialist enterprise during the late nineteenth century and to the discourse of 'hypothetical masculinity' that helped bolster and uphold it. The problematic geographies of these texts illuminate the ways in which fiction, masculinity, and adventure were mutually productive processes during the fin de siècle, and the ways in which this interrelationship was facilitated, at least in part, by the 'unmapping' of adventurous space.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel by Pardis Dabashi (review)","authors":"Seo Hee Im","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935476","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel&lt;/em&gt; by Pardis Dabashi &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Seo Hee Im &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; DABASHI, PARDIS. &lt;em&gt;Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel&lt;/em&gt;. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. $30.00 paperback; $99.00 cloth; $29.99 e-book. &lt;p&gt;Pardis Dabashi's &lt;em&gt;Losing the Plot&lt;/em&gt; begins in familiar territory: even as manifestos declaimed the need to make it new, actually existing modernist writing remained conflicted about jettisoning plot. After all, plotted narratives were compelling for good reason. They provided \"existential promises\" (8) by making imaginable nice things like \"possessive liberal individualism, heterosexual marriage, and a progressive and teleological view of history\" (8). Quickly, though, Dabashi departs for riskier and more hypothetical terrains, into claims about the payoffs of taking seriously the feelings of various writers (as humans) and characters (also, surprisingly, as humans). Often exhilarating and never boring, &lt;em&gt;Losing the Plot&lt;/em&gt; is perhaps most valuable as an occasion to reflect on what it means to do criticism, or more specifically, which kinds of evidence we are willing to admit into a reading.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dabashi rightly reminds us that modernist extrications from realist plot must be understood in the context of the rise of Hollywood cinema. For Dabashi, that means understanding the ambivalence that modernist writers would have felt personally. The writers examined—Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner—must have looked on with envy and dismay as film, inheriting plots that modernist fiction abandoned, took over \"the cultural, formal, and psychic work of the bourgeois novel\" (8). Authorial intent, let alone authorial feeling, is a notoriously tricky thing, and most of us learn in graduate school to avoid contact with it, like Medusa's hair, by keeping our eyes studiously trained on the text. But &lt;em&gt;Losing the Plot&lt;/em&gt; engages freely in hypotheses (at the end of each chapter with rhetorical questions) about how authors must have found private comfort in watching films or in identifying with specific actors. Such speculations sometimes fly in the face of historical evidence, as in the case of Faulkner, who, as Jordan Brower has recently shown (&lt;em&gt;Classical Hollywood, American Modernism&lt;/em&gt;, Cambridge UP, 2024), nursed public grudges against the Hollywood film industry in general and MGM Studios in particular.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A key hypothesis is that once modernist authors got over their ugly feelings, or at least managed them well enough to persist in writing plotless novels, they did so at &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 325]&lt;/strong&gt; the expense of their characters. According to this account, modernist novels perpetrate egregious acts of abuse, for the authors who sought the solaces of plot in theater","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935498","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p>Laura Schrock Crawford is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Samford University. Prior to coming to Samford, she served as English Department Head and Humanities and Fine Arts Division Chair at Judson College until its closure in 2021. Crawford completed her PhD at the University of Mississippi in 2015, and her current research and teaching interests include studies in life stages, selfhood, and the Gothic novel.</p> <p>Derek Ettensohn is Associate Professor of English and the Humanities at Sewanee: The University of the South. He works in the fields of global Anglophone literature and the health humanities. His research is interested in the representation of illness and the ethics of care in film and the contemporary Anglophone novel.</p> <p>Mi Jeong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University, in South Korea, where she teaches modern and contemporary British literature. Her current research focuses on spatiality, forms of the global, and narratives of large-scale catastrophe. Her work has appeared in <em>Journal of Modern Literature, The Journal of English Language &amp; Literature</em>, and elsewhere.</p> <p>Elly McCausland is Associate Professor of English Literature at Ghent University. She is the author of <em>Malory's Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862–1980</em> (2019) and <em>Risk in Children's Adventure Literature</em> (2024). Her research interests include medievalism, ecocriticism, children's literature, ludonarratology, Victorian literature, and imperial romance. She is also an award-winning food writer.</p> <p>Alejandra Ortega is Assistant Professor of English at the College of DuPage. A scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, she has previously held a fellowship with the American Association of University Women. Her research interests include spatial theory, ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, gender, and narratology. Her work has been published in <em>ISLE</em> and <em>Rhizomes</em>, among other venues. She has also contributed a chapter to <em>Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell</em> (Michigan State UP, 2023).</p> Copyright © 2024 The Johns Hopkins University Press and the University of North Texas ... </p>","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk by Michael Lucey (review)","authors":"Maury Bruhn","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935478","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk&lt;/em&gt; by Michael Lucey &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Maury Bruhn &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; LUCEY, MICHAEL. &lt;em&gt;What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk&lt;/em&gt;. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 346 pp. $35.00 paperback; $105.00 cloth; $34.99 e-book. &lt;p&gt;In 1979's &lt;em&gt;Shikasta&lt;/em&gt;, Doris Lessing has a parenthetical aside about \"Marcel Proust, sociologist and anthropologist,\" implying that from the perspective of the far-distant future when her novel takes place these will be the epithets chosen to describe Proust's work. Michael Lucey's &lt;em&gt;What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk&lt;/em&gt; suggests a similar reframing for the author of &lt;em&gt;In Search of Lost Time&lt;/em&gt;. Against early critics like Jacques Rivière who proposed Proust as the psychological novelist par excellence, and against the received idea of Proust as champion of the solitary artist, the Proust that emerges in &lt;em&gt;What Proust Heard&lt;/em&gt; is exquisitely attentive to talk: what is said, how it is said, and what that indicates about social structures. Lucey deftly weaves close readings from &lt;em&gt;In Search of Lost Time&lt;/em&gt; with insights drawn from linguistic anthropologist Michael Silverstein and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, among many others, to convincingly demonstrate that the linguistic anthropological and sociological aspects of Proust are essential to understanding his novel's structure. &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 329]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What Proust Heard&lt;/em&gt; is divided into three chapters and three interludes (dedicated to Balzac and George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Nathalie Sarraute and Rachel Cusk). Lucey's first chapter, \"Proust the Linguistic Anthropologist,\" outlines the \"linguistic anthropological disposition of &lt;em&gt;Search&lt;/em&gt;\" (23), exploring Proust's descriptions of three levels of speech: general qualities such as accent and intonation; use of specific words; and the ways speech provides social scientific information for analysis. This chapter also introduces two of the central propositions running through &lt;em&gt;What Proust Heard&lt;/em&gt;. The first is Lucey's insistence that, when we attend to the narrator's analysis of speech (how he enjoys the sound of Albertine and her friends talking, how he dislikes the talk of Mme. de Cambremer, how he highlights in both cases the conscious and unconscious class markers in their speech), we must also attend to the ways in which \"the narrator's own language is part of the aesthetic and analytical arrangement of utterances that the novel offers for our consideration\" (82). Lucey rightly maintains that the narrator is not a neutral observer and reporter, instead showing in his close readings how the narrator's own talk and reactions to the talk of others are also material offered by Proust for analysis. The second ","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Swallowing the Whole: World, Planet, and Totality in the Planetary Fiction of H. G. Wells","authors":"Mi Jeong Lee","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2024.a935471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a935471","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay examines the conflation between world and planet in H. G. Wells's turn-of-the-century science fiction. Writing when \"world=planet\" was not a given, Wells actively participated in the formation of the world-planet vocabulary across a range of genres and throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, I look into the planetary experiments of his early fiction, where the materially limited planet continually thwarts the writer's attempts to equate that planet to the world he wished to develop as the ultimate political unit. Emerging through such attempts is a divergence between world and planet that enables us to think about the individual, the world, and the planet all on a commensurate scale, in a manner that is strikingly—and perhaps also troublingly—similar to what recent environmental discourse asks of us today.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142189721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}