Volume 56, Number 4, Winter 2024

Special Issue:

Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel

Guest Editors: Sarah Allison and Megan Ward

INTRODUCTION

Introduction: On Truisms - SARAH ALLISON AND MEGAN WARD

ARTICLES

Bookbinding and the Look of the Romantic-Era Novel - LINDSEY ECKERT

Never Serialized: How the "Typical" Victorian Novel Deviates from the Canonical - TROY J. BASSETT

What Victorian Novel? - SIERRA ECKERT

Forms of Discourse: The Significance of Direct Speec - TARA K. MENON

"Why don't we have a novel of our own?": The Anatomy of a Romanian Literary Complex - ANDREI TERIAN AND MARIA CHIOREAN

Mythologies Uplifted: The New Woman of the Margins in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins and Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy - KAY R. BARRETT

Realism Vs. Modernism Vs. Influenza - CLAIRE SEILER

Falling Action: Against 'Freytag's Pyramid' - DALLAS LIDDLE

The Malaysian Nationalist Novel in English: A Reading of Adibah Amin's This End of the Rainbow - KAVITHA GANESAN

Secondhand Borges: Ben Lerner, Roberto Bolaño, and Autofiction as Defacement - NICOLÁS MEDINA MORA

The Black Speculative Tradition - SUSANA M. MORRIS

Brand Management: International Bestsellers and the Death of the Author, Again - SEAN DILEONARDI, BECCA COHEN, AND DAN SINYKIN