Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural
style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current …

Between the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth century and the novel's
subsequent alignment with self-improvement a century later lies a significant moment when …

The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot possibly not know, sooner or
later, in one way or another', wrote Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double …

As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks
the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally …

This essay proposes a new understanding of the widely recognized disdain for realism and
the realist novel among decadent writers, a disdain most critics have interpreted as a …

Aimé Césaire once wrote that the postcolonial world is made up of “societies that were not
only ante-capitalist, as has been said, but also anti-capitalist”(44; emphasis in original) …

Literary History after the Nation?” begins with a simple question: Now that many scholars are
pressuring the unspoken national and regional assumptions of literary studies, how should …

The long poems of the Hindi poet Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917–64) present a series of
fantastic narratives, in which a nameless speaker journeys through a fantastic landscape …

Close versus distant. Form versus history. Generality versus differ-ence. Critique versus
postcritique. These are just some of the polarities through which the last decade's critical …

Although accounts of the realist novel have not always adequately examined the experience
of movement through space, this embodied epistemology is critical to the genre's …