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Critical Histories Of Omniscience, Rachel Buurma
Critical Histories Of Omniscience, Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
This chapter of New Directions in the History of the Novel tells the story of the literary-critical invention of the Victorian novel’s narrative omniscience. Beginning with Victorian reviewers’ references to novelistic omniscience, the essay moves through early versions of narrative omniscience penned by post-Jamesian novel theorists and critics, who saw the talkative, inartistic, “omniscient author” as inessential to the novel and excluded it from their accounts of novelistic form. It marks a major shift in the 1960s, when the Anglo-American tradition began to see omniscience as formal and central to the Victorian novel’s form, tracing this shift through Foucauldian “panoptic …
Notation After “The Reality Effect”: Remaking Reference With Roland Barthes And Sheila Heti, Rachel S. Buurma, Laura Heffernan
Notation After “The Reality Effect”: Remaking Reference With Roland Barthes And Sheila Heti, Rachel S. Buurma, Laura Heffernan
Rachel S Buurma
In “The Reality Effect,” Roland Barthes reveals notation’s ideological function within the realist novel; a decade later in Preparation of the Novel, Barthes reconsiders notation as the practice by which the writer provisionally makes literary meaning. Barthes’s revision of his claims for the reality effect helps us see how an emerging genre—the novel of commission—pulls referential, preparatory materials into the novel in order to reimagine the sociality and institutionality of the writing process.
Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Buurma
Publishing The Victorian Novel, Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
“Publishing the Victorian Novel” looks to the methods of book history and literary criticism to ask how we might understand the ways Victorian publishers and authors (alongside editors, publishers’ readers, librarians, and booksellers) worked together to make novels. Paying attention to both the material and literary aspects of this making, the essay examines a few different scenes of novel publication with a particular focus on the way Victorian novelists, publishers, and reading publics understood aspects of the publication process like the serialization of novels, the three-volume novel, and the authority of the novelist and publisher. In an attempt to capture …
Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Buurma, Laura Heffernan
Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Buurma, Laura Heffernan
Rachel S Buurma
This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices. In seeking out nineteenth-century models for twenty-first-century critical practice, these critics imagine a world in which English literature never became a discipline. Some see these new methods as formalist, yet we argue that they actually emerge from historicist self-critique. Specifically, these contemporary critics view the historicist projects of the 1980s as overly influenced by disciplinary models of textual interpretation—models that first arose, we show through our reading of the Jolly Bargemen …
The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Buurma, Anna Levine, Richard Li
The Early Novels Database And Undergraduate Research: A Case Study, Rachel Buurma, Anna Levine, Richard Li
Rachel S Buurma
No abstract provided.
Review Of A Return To The Common Reader: Print Culture And The Novel, 1850-1900, A. Buckland And B. Palmer Eds., Rachel Buurma
Review Of A Return To The Common Reader: Print Culture And The Novel, 1850-1900, A. Buckland And B. Palmer Eds., Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=186
Review Of The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland. Vol. 4, Professionalism And Diversity, 1880–2000, D. Finkelstein And A. Mccleery Eds., Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
No abstract provided.
Review Of Commodity Culture In Dickens’S Household Words By C. Waters, Rachel Buurma
Review Of Commodity Culture In Dickens’S Household Words By C. Waters, Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
No abstract provided.
Ephemeral Forms: E.S. Dallas, Novel Reading, And The Victorian Review, Rachel Buurma
Ephemeral Forms: E.S. Dallas, Novel Reading, And The Victorian Review, Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
No abstract provided.
Anonyma’S Authors, Rachel Buurma
Anonymity, Corporate Authority And The Archive: The Production Of Authorship In Late-Victorian England, Rachel Buurma
Anonymity, Corporate Authority And The Archive: The Production Of Authorship In Late-Victorian England, Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
This essay considers the persistence of collective and corporate models of literary authority within late-Victorian literature and print culture. While modern critics often understand Victorian authorship to be individually centered and governed by a dynamic of secrecy and disclosure, the periodical debates about anonymity that intensified in the fin de siècle suggest that Victorian readers and writers embraced a more flexible, collective notion of authorship. The plot, language, and paratext of Mary Elizabeth Hawker's pseudonymously published Mademoiselle Ixe, as well as the author-publisher correspondence concerning the novel, offer a representation of the corporate and collective interpretive modes that would have …