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Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900
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Moretti as mentioned in this paper explored the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel and found that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history, in a series of one hundred maps, alongside Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas.Abstract:
In a series of one hundred maps, Franco Moretti explores the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel. Balzac's Paris, Dickens's London and Scott's Scottish Lowlands are mapped, alongside the territories of Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas, in a path-breaking study which suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.read more
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Using GIS for Spatial and Temporal Analyses in Print Culture Studies: Some Opportunities and Challenges
TL;DR: The final published version appears in Social Science History, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 505-536, published by Duke University Press and available at http://ssh.dukejournals.org/archive/
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‘Cheap, Healthful Literature’: The Strand Magazine, Fictions of Crime, and Purified Reading Communities
TL;DR: The Strand Magazine as mentioned in this paper was the first periodical published by George Newnes, and the first volume was published in 1891, with the purpose of creating a reading community for crime narratives.
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Envisioning Reform in Gissing's The Nether World
TL;DR: The Nether World as discussed by the authors is an example of a realist novel with three visual registers: photorealistic taxonomy, theatrical spectacle, and performative self-revision, which enables Gissing's sincere vision of both social determinism and social reform.