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dc.contributor.authorNeill, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-11T22:58:01Z
dc.date.available2018-07-11T22:58:01Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationNeill, Anna. "The Made Man and the "Minor" Novel: Erewhon, ANT, and Empire." Victorian Studies, vol. 60 no. 1, 2017, pp. 53-73. https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.60.1.03en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/26645
dc.description.abstractBruno Latour has identified the “great novel” as a site for revealing the complex nature of agency in the Anthropocene. As it traces cause and effect through numerous, interrelated events, the “great novel” reveals a vast network of actors—entities, human and non-human—that are neither pure subjects nor pure objects. I examine firstly how novels by Charles Dickens and George Eliot depict the agency of non-human things within a network of actors. I then discuss how a self-proclaimed “minor” novel, Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872), challenges us to think about the colonial implications of the distributed, networked agency represented in “great” Victorian fiction. Erewhon shows how the imbrication of the human and the (in particular) non-human machinate underpins the entrepreneurial success of the colonial adventurer.en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Indiana Pressen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2018 The Trustees of Indiana Universityen_US
dc.subjectNovels
dc.subjectSympathy
dc.subjectNarratives
dc.subjectMachinery
dc.subjectLiterary criticism
dc.subjectMental objects
dc.subjectSatire
dc.subjectVictorian literature
dc.titleThe Made Man and the "Minor" Novel: Erewhon, ANT, and Empireen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorNeill, Anna
kusw.kudepartmentEnglishen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2979/victorianstudies.60.1.03en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
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