Portable Prose

Jarrad Cogle is independent scholar in research on literary and film criticism.Lydia Saleh Rofail is PhD candidate in English at the University of Sydney.N. Cyril Fischer is independent scholar in research on new modernism and contemporary fiction studies.Vanessa Smith is professor of English literature at the University of Sydney.

Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday explores issues related to objecthood, the everyday, and portability within the novel. The scope of this wide-ranging collection includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, contemporary postmodern literature and science fiction, as well as broader theories of the novel and the nature of reading.

Section 1: Literary History after the EverydayChapter 1: Portable Vision, Form, and Objects in Henry James, by Zachary Tavlin and Bob HodgesChapter 2: Fredric Jameson and Affect Theory: Realism and Everyday Experience, by Jarrad CogleChapter 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 RudgeSection 2: Everyday EpistemologiesChapter 4: Filth and the Everyday, by Hisup ShinChapter 5: The Prosaic and the Phantasmagoric: Urban Bodies in Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector, by Lydia Saleh RofailChapter 6: "I had made it myself": Convergence of Past and Present Selves in Villette, by Jennifer WilsonSection 3: Everyday ReadersChapter 7: Domesticating Charlotte Corday: Helen Craik's Adelaide de Narbonne and Private Vengeance, by Stephanie RussoChapter 8: Thomas Wolfe and the Domestication of Culture, by Jedidiah EvansChapter 9: Missing Books, by Nicola EvansAfterword: Portability Now: Between Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Ontology, by John Plotz