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Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900
01 Jan 1998-
TL;DR: 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.
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21 Jun 2012TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss reform and the silver fork novel in the context of newspapers and the topography of London and discuss the role of women in the reform process and reform.
Abstract: 1. Cultural contexts 2. Edgeworth, Burney and Austen 3. Reform and the silver fork novel 4. Newspapers and the silver fork novel 5. The topography of silver fork London 6. Performing reform, silver fork heroines.
56 citations
01 Sep 2015
TL;DR: A novel technique for character detection is proposed, achieving significant improvements over state of the art on multiple datasets, and heavily reliant on NER to identify characters.
Abstract: Characters are fundamental to literary analysis. Current approaches are heavily reliant on NER to identify characters, causing many to be overlooked. We propose a novel technique for character detection, achieving significant improvements over state of the art on multiple datasets.
52 citations
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Purifying Empire as discussed by the authors explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then re-localized in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends.
Abstract: Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then re-localized in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends. While a considerable body of work has demonstrated both the role of empire in shaping moral regulatory projects in Britain and their adaptation, transformation and, at times, rejection in colonial contexts, this book illustrates that it is in fact only through a comparative and transnational framework that it is possible to elucidate both the temporalist nature of colonialism and the political, racial and moral contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.
50 citations
01 Feb 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the author describes the scene of reading at the limits of sympathy at home with homelessness and figures in the mist, and the ghostliness of things, living images, still lives.
Abstract: Introduction 1 At the limits of sympathy 2 At home with homelessness 3 Figures in the mist 4 Timing modernity: around 1800 5 The ghostliness of things 6 Living images, still lives 7 The scene of reading
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