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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
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Beckford's Insatiable Caliph: Oriental Despotism and Consumer Society
TL;DR: The authors argued that William Beckford's oriental tale Vathek (published 1786) makes use of the trope of oriental despotism to address the experience of early British consumer society.
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George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, and Parasitic Form
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine natural historical writings by George Henry Lewes and Philip Henry Gosse in order to illuminate George Eliot's understanding and plotting of human relations, particularly in her novel The Mill on the Floss (1860).
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Theatrical Extraneity: John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany and Dickensian Theater-Fiction
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Recent work in Victorian studies and the bildungsroman
TL;DR: The authors evaluate recent work in Victorian Studies on the Bildungsroman, with particular attention to how scholars negotiate the legacy of Franco Moretti's bravura reading of the form, The Way of the World: The BildungSroman in European Culture (1987).