The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…The significance for Gaines is that what happened a hundred years ago is part of his present-day lived life.The nineteenth-century novel was possessed by history, and white nineteenth-century novelists found their great subject in the war of European nations that was fought between 1799 and 1815. …”
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Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood by James Peacock

“…Indeed, Genevich still lives in his grandparents’ brownstone. What is striking in both novels is how closely their conditions are also connected to these neighborhoods. …”
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