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• Supernatural Realism 

  Realism Reloaded Few key terms in the vocabulary of literary criticism, and criticism of the novel in particular, have consistently proven to be...

  04/01/09 by Smajic, Srdjan · More from publication

• Some Versions of Vitriol (the Novel circa 1890) 

  We call "vitriolic" a writer who wields the pen in acrimony and imprecation: Juvenal, Jonathan Swift, Louis-Ferdinand Celine. The word used...

  04/01/09 by Matz, Aaron · More from publication

• Aesthetics of Self-Management: Intelligence, Capital, and The House of Mirth, The 

  Whether ultimately seen as indicative of the conservative or progressive political sensibilities of the author, Edith Wharton's Lily Bart has been...

  04/01/09 by Mullen, Patrick · More from publication

• Constitutional Laziness and the Novel: Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds 

  One of the more conspicuous consequences of the ongoing postcolonial reappraisal of Irish literature is a recurring tendency to stress its...

  04/01/09 by Dobbins, Gregory · More from publication

• Color of His Hair: Nineteenth-Century Literary Portraits of the Historical Jesus, The 

  In 1830, the English writer Harriet Martineau published a short novel titled Traditions of Palestine. Given her trailblazing career as the "first...

  04/01/09 by Gatrall, Jefferson J A · More from publication

• Imperialism at Home 

  Imperialism at Home JOHN KUCiCH, Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 270, cloth,...

  04/01/09 by Viswanathan, Gauri · More from publication

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