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Book SynopsisPortable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a physical object that occupies public and private space. This collection interrogates the relationships between these differing aspects of the novel's existence, negotiating the boundaries between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies of representation. This collection offers a wide array of innovative novelistic explorationswith a focus ranging from nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary literary theoryand explores the portability of novels as both physical things and virtual hermeneutic devices.While mimetic qualities of prose remain an integral consideration for literary interpretation, this collection argues for more diverse frameworksones that see aesthetic components of the novel in close connection with reading practices, shared structures of feeling, and the corporeal. In this capacity, this volume will argue for readings of texts
Table of ContentsSection 1: Literary History after the Everyday Chapter 1: Portable Vision, Form, and Objects in Henry James, by Zachary Tavlin and Bob Hodges Chapter 2: Fredric Jameson and Affect Theory: Realism and Everyday Experience, by Jarrad Cogle Chapter 3: Novel Readings: Mind- and Emotion-reading Devices in the Mid-twentieth Century and in Philip K. Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Chris Rudge Section 2: Everyday Epistemologies Chapter 4: Filth and the Everyday, by Hisup Shin Chapter 5: The Prosaic and the Phantasmagoric: Urban Bodies in Peter Carey’s The Tax Inspector, by Lydia Saleh Rofail Chapter 6: “I had made it myself”: Convergence of Past and Present Selves in Villette, by Jennifer Wilson Section 3: Everyday Readers Chapter 7: Domesticating Charlotte Corday: Helen Craik’s Adelaide de Narbonne and Private Vengeance, by Stephanie Russo Chapter 8: Thomas Wolfe and the Domestication of Culture, by Jedidiah Evans Chapter 9: Missing Books, by Nicola Evans Afterword: Portability Now: Between Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Ontology, by John Plotz
