Reading and Writing Women's Lives: A Study of the Novel of Manners

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Jane Curlin ◽  
Bege K. Bowers ◽  
Barbara Brothers ◽  
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Novel Of Manners

Reading and Writing Women's Lives: A Study of the Novel of Manners

1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Ann Owens Weekes ◽  
Bege K. Bowers ◽  
Barbara Brothers
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Novel Of Manners

scholarly journals The Novel as Affective Site: Uncertain work as impasse in Wait Until Spring, Bandini

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1805-1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birke Dorothea Otto ◽  
Anke Strauß
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Static State ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Stable Employment

In this paper we propose that reading and writing with novels contributes to the emerging field of researching affect in organization studies. Situating our argument in current research on work-related uncertainty, we take John Fante’s novel Wait Until Spring, Bandini as a ‘sensuous site’ of research to engage with the experience of feeling stuck – addressed as impasse, limbo or permanent temporariness – as a condition of contemporary work lives. While affect theoretical approaches often emphasize precognitive intensities and their transformative potential, the novel foregrounds how affective intensities stay and stick as they are entangled with powerful socio-political conventions, such as investments in the American Dream or the idea of stable employment. Such affective attachments take shape in antithetic dynamics of the not-so-static state of feeling stuck.

Particular Webs:Middlemarch,Typologies, and Digital Studies of Women's Lives

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Booth
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Digital Studies ◽  
Digital Research

[H]e was enamoured of that arduous invention which is the very eye of research, provisionally framing its object and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation … to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes.—George Eliot,MiddlemarchIt would be hard to discover a theoretical or aesthetic approach to George Eliot'sMiddlemarchthat is not already anticipated in some way by the novel's sagacious narrator. Possibly that persona, the quintessential Victorian polymath, does not foresee digital humanities as we know it. But critics have been struck as much by Eliot's prototyping of information systems, semiotics, and network analysis as by her humanist ethics. Casaubon does not invent the database of myths any more than Lydgate discovers DNA, or than Marian Evans Lewes rivals Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. As I illustrate a kind of digital research that adjusts to the minute particulars of narrative, I hope to keep sight of historical distances between the 1830s, the 1870s, and the era of feminist Victorian studies that I sketch here. Lydgate's penetrative “invention,” in the epigraph, is associated elsewhere in the novel with his actual “flesh-and-blood” vitality: “He cared not only for ‘cases,’ but for John and Elizabeth, especially Elizabeth” (Middlemarch, chap. 15). He is as dedicated to evidence as the narrator, in many scientific analogies, counsels readers to be, and yet he approaches his own life story and the characters of women with a kind of prejudgment that filters out most data. Eliot's readers, seeing Lydgate's errors, are flattered into believing we miss no signals and see all analogies. Can contemporary readers appreciate both numerical cases and individual stories of women? In this article I try to outline a feminist criticism that encompasses both typological classifications and flesh-and-blood individuality, both digital research and interpretative advocacy.

Propriety, Grandison, and the Novel of Manners

1980 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-161
Author(s):  
P. R. CRABTREE
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Novel Of Manners

Edith Wharton and the Novel of Manners.

1976 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Blake Nevius ◽  
Gary Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Novel Of Manners
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