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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel

Alex Woloch
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Jane Austen's Style: Narrative Economy and the Novel's Growth

TL;DR: Toner argues that Austen's conciseness in terms of plotting, narrative description and in the depiction of dialogue also contributed to her innovations in representing thought, expanding the novel's capacity to depict consciousness as discussed by the authors.
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Armadale and the Logic of Liberalism

TL;DR: The authors argues that Victorian ideas about "character" crystallize a tension between singularity and universality crucial to the smooth functioning of modern democracy, arguing that liberal subjects emerge through an operation J. S. mill's System of Logic describes as induction, and that Karl marx explains via the general equivalency of the money form.
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Gaskell's detours: how mary barton, ruth, and cranford redefined “redundancy”

TL;DR: When the 1851 census reported an “excess” of some half-million women in Britain, feminists and anti-feminists quickly took to the press to debate the implications of the demographic imbalance as mentioned in this paper.
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Living the Global Transport Network in Great Expectations

TL;DR: In this paper, the narrating protagonist Pip, looking back from 1860, structures his story partly around his recognition that he was born into an increasingly connected global network, from which the narrator relays his story as a networked subject.