‘Without you, I am nothing’: on the counterfactual imagination in Emma
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2018.1442396
Abstract: ABSTRACT Positioning Austen's Emma in relation to a number of other nineteenth-century novels, this essay proposes that the novel's strategic restraint of its readers’ counterfactual imagining, enacted through repeat reading, affords a minor countermeasure to… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; nothing counterfactual; imagination emma; without nothing ... See more keywords
Thomas Hardy's impulse: context and the counterfactual imagination
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2018.1508493
Abstract: ABSTRACT Focusing on the impulsive act, this essay analyzes the relationship between the temporality of decision making and the determination of social context in Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), The Woodlanders (1887), and… read more here.
Keywords: hardy; context; act; counterfactual imagination ... See more keywords