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N ' ̂ E r TA FORUM ON FICTION

Victorian Fiction After New Historicism JENNIFER RUTH Industrial Time

IVAN KREILKAMP | Speech Withheld

MICHAEL TRASK | Taking Choices

BRIAN MCCUSKEY | Flunkey Fetishes

CHRISTOPHER LANE | Almayer's Defeat

Reviews

James Thompson, Leah Price, Roland Greene, Adam Hotek, Annette Van, Brian Richardson, Colleen Lamos, Richard Pearce

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NOVEL A FORUM ON FICTION

PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING, SUMMER, AND FALL OF EACH YEAR

VOLUME 32 NUMBER 3 SUMMER 1999

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NOVEL: A FORUM ON FICTION

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JENNIFER RUTH

IVAN KREILKAMP

MICHAEL TRASK

BRIAN MCCUSKEY

CHRISTOPHER LANE

Rewriting the Rise of the Novel

Pudding or Poison?

The Ethical Challenges of the Theory Establishment

The Trouble with the Color Line

Taking Novels Serially

Fiction and its Other

Modernist Libidos

Geography Lessons

Index, Volume 32

Contents Mental Capital, Industrial Time, and the Professional in David Copperfield

Unuttered: Withheld Speech and Female Authorship in Jane Eyre and Villette

The Wings of the Dove and the Romance of Choice

Fetishizing the Flunkey: Thackeray and the Uses of Deviance

Almayer's Defeat: The Trauma of Colonialism in Conrad's Early Work

Reviews

JAMES THOMPSON: The Work of Writing, by Clifford Siskin; Licensing Entertainment, by William B. Warner, p. 429.

LEAH PRICE: The Reading Lesson, by Patrick

Brantlinger, p. 431.

ROLAND GREENE: Ethics After Idealism, by Rey Chow, p. 434.

ADAM HOTEK: Dislocating the Color Line, by Samira Kawash, p. 438.

ANNETTE VAN: Novels of Everyday Life, by Laurie Langbauer, p. 441.

BRIAN RICHARDSON: The Distinction of Fiction, by Dorrit Cohn, p. 444.

COLLEN LAMOS: Libidinal Currents, by Joseph Allen Boone, p. 446.

RICHARD PEARCE: Mappings, by Susan Stanford Friedman, p. 449.

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Contributors JENNIFER RUTH is Assistant Professor of Literature at Portland State University. Her essay on David Copperfield is part of a larger project investigating the relationship between the rise of the professional and the quantification of intelligence in mid-nineteenth-century Britain.

IVAN KREILKAMP is a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, and a Harper- Schmidt Instructor in the Humanities, at the University of Chicago. He is working on a book on voice and orality in Victorian literature.

MICHAEL TRASK is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. He is completing a book called Cruising Parnassus: American Modernism and the Representation of Desire.

BRIAN MCCUSKEY, Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University, is currently writing a book entitled Servants' Characters: Below Stairs in Victorian Culture.

CHRISTPHER LANE is Associate Professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity and The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire, as well as the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race. He is currently writing a new book, provisionally entitled Misfits and Misanthropes: The Antisocial Life of Victorian Literature.

JAMES THOMPSON is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Models of Value, and he is presently working on Jane Austen. LEAH PRICE teaches English at Harvard. Her book The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel is

forthcoming from Cambridge. ROLAND GREENE is Professor of Comparative Literature and

English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Unrequited Conquests and is at work on a book that deals with early modern prose fiction. ADAM HOTEK is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. He is writing about utopian spaces in African-American literature. ANNETTE VAN is completing a dissertation on gender, literary form, and political economy in the Victorian novel. BRIAN RICHARDSON is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland and is the author of Unlikely Stories, as well as articles on aspects of modern fiction and narrative theory. COLLEEN LAMOS is Associate Professor of English at Rice University and is the author of Deviant Modernism and numerous articles on modernism and queer theory. RICHARD PEARCE teaches at Wheaton

College. He has published The Politics of Narration and is editor of Molly Blooms.

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