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{"title":"Sense and Sensibility as Social-Epistemic System","authors":"Aaron R. Hanlon","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899469","url":null,"abstract":"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 sister, Elinor, actually proceeds from a rational system for making social judgments. The pitfalls both of these characters encounter due to flawed judgments are part of how Sense and Sensibility builds critique and error correction into its illustrations of social conundrums based on imperfect information, offering a model system for readers who would encounter comparable circumstances.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"131 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43980323","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":"The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter Kalliney (review)","authors":"Marius Hentea","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899465","url":null,"abstract":"lesbian Western’s gender play inevitably crashes into the history of white supremacy. Even at best, the well-intentioned white character still benefits from colonialist racism and genocide” (77). Indeed, in Chapter Four, “Tomboys and Indians,” Garber spends a lot of time on the problematic history of Westerns writ large, and lesbian historical fiction specifically, begging the question of the utility of the genre itself if it cannot succeed without replicating the racism, sexism, and colonialism of heterosexual writers. Nonetheless, Garber does an excellent job of revealing the ways in which this sub-genre vilifies and, at the same time, appropriates Native American culture, enacting a form of literary criticism that is necessarily critical of the genre as it yet extols its efforts. One of the book’s more significant weaknesses is noted by the author: the near non-existence of lesbian historical fiction written by Black, Indigenous, and other lesbians of color. Related to that is the inclusion of one film that examines Black lesbian historical fiction, which seems out of place in a text focused on genre novels. Chapter Two, “Haunting the Archives,” focuses primarily on the ways in which writers utilize the archive to inspire and support their work, as well as how they fashion narratives based on what is absent from the historical record. Garber briefly mentions Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories (1991), an historical rendering of a Black lesbian born during the Civil War era, but spends considerably more time on The Watermelon Woman (1996), a film by Cheryl Dunye focused on recovering a usable Black lesbian filmic past. Thematically, inclusion of Dunye’s film works here because it is doing the work lesbian historical fiction is tasked with doing: situating lesbians in a specific historical period (in this case, the era of early cinema) in order to create a usable past in which present-day lesbians can imagine themselves. However, the mockumentary seems out of place, as every other text mentioned in Garber’s study is a novel. To be sure, this is a reminder of the paucity of Black lesbian historical fiction and shines a glaring light on the overwhelming whiteness of lesbian literature and literary culture. Overall, Novel Approaches to Lesbian History does what it sets out to do: remind readers that, regardless of the limits of positivist historiography and irrevocable gaps in the archive, lesbians have always been with us. Lesbian writers are committed to recovering their own histories, even if that means creating them. Scholars and students of lesbian and queer literatures will find a plethora of material to work with, as Garber also includes a bibliography of lesbian historical fiction to encourage further research.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"239 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42621651","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":"“Orgasm of Nostalgia”: Narrative and Sexual Desire in Aleksandar Hemon’s Nowhere Man","authors":"Matthew Joseph Helm","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899471","url":null,"abstract":"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 of sexuality function as a critique of teleological literary genres as an untenable means of telling Pronek’s story. For example, in conflating the nostalgia of the Bildungsroman with masturbatory nationalism, the novel suggests that the narrative desires of the genre are proto-fascistic. Likewise, in adopting the voyeuristic gaze of the American travel writer, the novel exposes the reader’s potential to orientalize Pronek. To conclude, I demonstrate how the narrator achieves a level of narrative-sexual intimacy with Pronek that mirrors the intersubjective suspension of the self that occurs while reading.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"167 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44562928","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":"9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels by Danel Olson (review)","authors":"Caitlin J Simmons","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899468","url":null,"abstract":"Derry’s history beyond IT’s long life. Compora also has a more significant error in which he represents a scene between adult Beverly and her husband as having taken place after the character Mike calls her from Derry instead of before, which contradicts the claim he is using the scene to support (159). Ambrose makes a similar but less substantial error, representing something Beverly thinks about her father as a child as being something she thinks about her husband as an adult (142). It is also odd that Schneeberger and Wiegel repeatedly refer to Derry as “suburban” instead of as a small town (170), especially given the importance of small towns to King’s work overall. While none of these misrepresentations are sufficient to invalidate the arguments in which they appear, such errors should have been caught in the revision process instead of being left to undermine the authors’ claims. Ultimately, though some of the essays possess weaknesses that keep them from standing alone, the collection nevertheless offers a valuable approach to understanding King’s novel and is a worthwhile contribution to King scholarship.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"246 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46413584","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":"The Survival of Specters: Hauntology and Richard Powers’s The Overstory","authors":"Kazutaka Sugiyama","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899473","url":null,"abstract":"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. By examining them through the lens of Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and its related concept of survival, alongside an ecocritical perspective, specters emerge as a distinct form of life that eludes the dualism of life and death. This hauntological and ecocritical approach invites us to see how Powers reconceives life itself as not only a familiar state of being but also an autonomous and paradoxical being that is inseparably part of us and irreconcilably other to us as well, compelling the reader to acknowledge the human as part of something larger: life itself.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"210 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42800393","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":"Kamila Shamsie’s Transnational Households and the Intimate Violence of the State","authors":"M. Moynagh","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899472","url":null,"abstract":"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 a paradoxical figure for exploring the transnational actually proves able to capture key features of transnationalism and of the attendant transformation of liberal-democratic states in the current moment. Rather than serving to naturalize the political constitution of the liberal democratic state and banish ascriptive distinctions and exclusions to the periphery of the domestic imagination, in Shamsie’s hands the household serves both as utopian counter-narrative and as a means of tracing the long history of the liberal state’s repressed and intimate violence up to the entrenched divides and political impasses of our current moment.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"191 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46928862","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.2023.a899474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136172782","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":"Novel Approaches to Lesbian History by Linda Garber (review)","authors":"S. Allen","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899464","url":null,"abstract":"nineteenth-century novel, Before Borders does not address the dramatic shift in thinking about national allegiance that occurred at this time as the concept of citizenship began to compete with, and in some cases replace, that of subjecthood. The novel creates subjects, but does it create citizens? The distinction between subjects and citizens or between feudal allegiance and democratic participation raises the spectre of those who were excluded from national belonging. DeGooyer acknowledges that even the most liberal seventeenthand eighteenth-century thinkers questioned the extension of British naturalization law to include non-white, non-European, and non-Protestant peoples. Novels arguably were more liberal, but DeGooyer avoids discussing literary naturalization and racial difference with the exception of the white protagonist’s use of blackface in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814), focusing instead on religious difference in Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison (1753) and Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington (1817). DeGooyer aims her argument about the novel’s formal abilities to naturalize at canonical authors (if not canonical works) for strategic reasons: namely, to emphasize that questions of mobility and allegiance were not a fringe concern for eighteenth-century writers. Yet, in doing so, she misses the opportunity not just to complicate an argument that rests primarily on the experiences of elite white Protestants, but also to examine early instances of a problem that continues to plague debates about naturalization today— racial prejudice. Before Borders takes risks and boldly explores big ideas at a time when working conditions for literary scholars often function like borders, constricting the possibilities of intellectual enterprise. Its unevenness is perhaps an effect of its disciplinary border crossings, as it returns us to a time when law and literature were not the disparate fields they are today.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"237 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41609739","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":"British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States by Benjamin Kohlmann (review)","authors":"Robert Higney","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"242 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42859700","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":"Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie Degooyer (review)","authors":"J. Shields","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.a899463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a899463","url":null,"abstract":"can only approximate the vast range of possible topics a disability studies reading of Joyce can pursue” (8). More essays like Rafael Hernandez’s “‘Dark in Mien and Movement’: Blindness and the Body in Ulysses”—which delves into how disability representation in Joyce is suffused with the colonialist racial hierarchies of his characters’ Ireland—would have deepened the engagement of this collection with disability studies’ current iteration as an intersectional and racially diverse field. At times, too, I felt that the authors in Joyce Writing Disability lapsed into the timehonored tradition of hagiography in Joyce scholarship. As modernist scholars develop more work in disability studies, we must be careful not to too quickly absolve our beloved artists from engagement with the eugenics-saturated culture of the time. Nevertheless, this collection’s stated purpose is to introduce Joyce scholars to disability studies perspectives, and in that capacity it’s a valuable and exciting text. My hope is that Colangelo’s editorial project, and the contributors’ apt demonstration of a range of disability studies perspectives, will inspire readers to consider Joyce Writing Disability a strong foundation for a rich, diverse scholarly conversation about disability in Joyce and modernist literature more broadly.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"235 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43298092","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}