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Studies in the Novel, 2020-01, Vol.52 (3), p.358-360
2020

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Titel
Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels, and Nineteenth-Century Realism by Mary L. Mullen (review)
Ist Teil von
  • Studies in the Novel, 2020-01, Vol.52 (3), p.358-360
Ort / Verlag
Denton: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • In making this claim for the necessity of reading Irish and English novels together as part of one “dynamically intertwined” realist tradition (22), Mullen both creates a new transnational and politically complex version of nineteenth-century literary history and lays bare the profoundly institutional nature of literary histories more largely. In tandem with Elaine Freedgood’s recent argument in Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel that twentieth-century criticism rather than Victorian novels themselves produced Victorian realism as a singular and coherent generic category, Mullen’s book engages as much with the institutions that “mediate our definitions of realism” as with the institutions that mediate time within realist novels (39): “the stories that we tell about novels,” she argues, are always really “stories about the cultural institutions that study novels” (22). Mullen situates her work not only in and against a copious bibliography of realist studies, novel studies, and Irish studies (her footnotes are a generous gift to anybody invested in these fields), but also within broader networks of postcolonial studies, queer theory, and critical race studies that challenge the orthodoxies of institutional knowledge and power: as Mullen writes, the concept of “imagining otherwise” furnished by these fields “acknowledges the violence of existing social arrangements— how their very coherence suppresses other ways of knowing, other forms of social relation, other modes of history, other approaches to politics” (9).
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 0039-3827, 1934-1512
eISSN: 1934-1512
DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2020.0037
Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_2447576330

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