Investigations into the Unpoliced Novel
Moll FlandersandThe Comely Cook
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4210127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Lieber (0009-0005-8013-749X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 575-596 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5612/slavicreview.74.3.575 |
| OpenAlex | W2380255624 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Taking its cue from Lev Tolstoi's claim, in "A Few Words Apropos of the BookWar and Peace," that the Russian novel is a "deviation from European form," this article investigates deviance as a formal and thematic aspect of the Russian novel. Concentrating on Mikhail Chulkov'sThe Comely Cookas an early exemplar of the Russian novel form, and locating its deviance against the backdrop of Daniel Defoe'sMoll Flanders(the English novel with which it is most frequently paired), I examine both formal matters and the texts' thematic and imaginative clusters. These questions of commercialism, capital, and the role of money; of gender difference, the regulation of sexuality and pleasure, and bodily life generally; of Oedipal family arrangements and communal organization; and of repetition and the production of the new are especially at stake in investigating issues of normativity and abnormality, or regularity and deformity, as they are given shape in the works. In particular, this article concentrates on the police as a multivalent literary, and particularly novelistic, construct to present the Russian novel as a distinctively unpoliced and unregulated genre whose lawlessness is brought into relief by the culture of discipline and legality that pervades Defoe's work
Aesthetics · Art · Deviance (statistics · Human sexuality · Lawlessness · Literature · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
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The Gift
Novel and The Police
The rise of the novel
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Nabokov, Perversely
The Fig Tree and the Laurel
The Idea of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century
The American Historical Review
Terrible Perfection. Women and Russian Literature
Combined Underdevelopment
"The Functions and Limits of Autobiography in Augustine's "Confessions
The Queer Art of Failure
In a Queer Time and Place
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |