What if Michaels, in some small part of himself and irrespective of what he maintains on the page, believes that this forty-year scholarly project might equally have been pursued not in the directi…

Abstract. This essay argues that the form of Ralph Ellison's never‐completed novel, posthumously published as Three Days before the Shooting . . . (2010), reflects a fundamental quandary for Ellison, ...

Abstract. The characters of George Schuyler's Black No More (1931) share a problem in common. They cannot read data. Foregrounding these scenes of misreading, this article argues that Black No More is...

Abstract. This article offers an ecocritical analysis of the connection between prehistoric fossils and fossil fuels in British novels from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing ...

Abstract. It has become commonplace to say that history is written by the victors. But in historical novels such as Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat (1967), it ...

Abstract. The narrator of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko not only claims privileged access to what we might now call the eponymous protagonist's “inside story,” but works to validate that claim by invoking evi...

Abstract. This essay examines forms of social and political activism in England and Aotearoa New Zealand as they are mediated through disruptions of pastoral in Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain (1856...