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    Beginning scholars for the future
    (Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 2019) Karant-Nunn, S. C.; McClendon, M. C.; Nivre, E. W.; Nelson, E.; Kurtuluş, Gül; Hamlin, H.; Clulow, A.; Rose, C.; Balserak, J.; Puf, H.; Daybell, J.; Ryrie, A.
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    The Cambridge handbook of literary authorship
    (Oxford University Press, 2021-05) Selleri, Andrea
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    Charismatic masculinity in David Malouf's fiction
    (2010) Randall, D.
    This examination of charismatic masculinity and the representation of gender in Malouf’s fiction concentrates on the short story collection Every Move You Make.
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    Remains of the social: Desiring the post-apartheid
    (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) Wright, Timothy
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    Stages of loss: The English comedians and their reception
    (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Kurtuluş, Gül
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    The African novel of ideas: philosophy and individualism in the age of global writing
    (Duke University Press, 2023-03-01) Wright, Timothy
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    World ecology in Martineau’s And Gaskell’s colonial pastorals
    (Oxford University Press, 2020) Çelikkol, Ayşe
    The pastoral tends to offer a retreat from modern life, but Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell reverse this pattern. They both turn to the colonies to reconcile the pastoral mode with capitalism, and, in their pastoral depictions of colonial life, we witness that mode’s peculiar capacity to narrate what the environmental historian Jason W. Moore calls ‘the capitalist world ecology’ – the globally systemic way of putting nature to work in the service of capitalism. Set in natural environments marked by human influence, the pastoral is a mode that can register economic relations with their ecological dimensions. In Martineau’s Homes Abroad and Cinnamon and Pearls – tales in Illustrations of Political Economy – and Gaskell’s Mary Barton, the pastoral aestheticizes the role that natural environments play in the development of capitalism. Homes Abroad presents peaceful agrarian life in Van Diemen’s Land as a lucrative enterprise in accord with modernization. Turning to Ceylon, Cinnamon and Pearls imagines an organic capitalism in which the celebration of plant life goes hand in hand with emergent property borders. In Mary Barton, the final pastoral setting in Canada is home to peace and progress. The felled trees in that setting signal the appropriation of nature for profit in the timber trade. These works of fiction capture the accumulation of capital in rural and suburban areas, which was historically key to the emergence of capitalism. The pastoral’s ability to depict the capitalist world ecology reflects a preoccupation with historical forces that is already present in the mode’s roots in antiquity.