Unfeeling Omniscience: Empire and Distant Intimacy in Vanity Fair
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Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
Lori Hope Lefkovitz,Mary Poovey +1 more
TL;DR: In "Uneven Developments" as discussed by the authors, Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology, arguing that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, and that representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture.
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The history of Pendennis : his fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy : in two volumes
TL;DR: Pendennis as mentioned in this paper is a portrait of life in the 1830s and 40s as well as a thorough and thoroughly entertaining self-portrait of the world in which he lives.
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In and out of the cage: informational privacy in Henry James’s In the Cage
Fan Fang,Xiangjian Hao +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the author argues that the protagonist's choice to stay in or out of the informational cage invites the reader to reconsider between and beyond the private sphere and the public sphere.
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Recent Thackeray Studies: 2009–2022
TL;DR: For instance, inattention, interruption, productive reverie, and distraction are the preeminent virtues that Nicholas Dames ascribes to Thackeray's fiction and Victorian theories of fiction in "Distraction's Negative Liberty" from The Physiology of the Novel (2007) as mentioned in this paper .
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The New Feeling Omniscience: Imperial Affects, Publicness and Narrative Style in Mrs Dalloway
TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that the modernist novel's charting of intense emotions pushes narrative to a new level of feeling, which is not only an inward affair but also concerned with how the affect and politics operate at the heart of what is considered most inward.
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The Colonizer and the Colonized
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Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire,Joan Pinkham +1 more
TL;DR: The fact is that the so-called European civilization, as it has been shaped by two centuries of bourgeois rule, is incapable of solving the two major problems to which its existence has given rise: the problem of the proletariat and the colonial problem.
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Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
TL;DR: In "Uneven Developments" as mentioned in this paper, Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology, arguing that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, and that representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture.