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An international literary quarterly that publishes literary criticism and scholarship on the novel. Includes essays on well-known and lesser-known novelists of all periods and countries. Contents include essays, reviews of recent books on novels and novel
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The manuscript of Septimius: revisiting the scene of Hawthorne's "failure".(evaluation of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel Septimius Felton, or The Elixir of Life)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Nathaniel Hawthorne's Septimius Felton, or The Elixir of Life (1872) is habitually considered a failure today, valuable only as the pathetic documentation of the rapid decline of the creative capacity of one of America's greatest writers. Biographer after biographer has ventured to portray...
That "old rigmarole of childhood": fairytales and socialization in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Four and a half years before the serialization of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (1864-66), the Cornhill Magazine published "Curious, if True" (1860), one of the novelist's last gothic stories. The narrator of that tale, Richard Whittingham, an archivist in Tours attempting to prove...
The sublime train of sight in A Hazard of New Fortunes.(analysis of William Dean Howells' novel)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In 1888, William Dean Howells moved with his family from Boston to New York City. In the heady years preceding this relocation, Howells undertook a famously unpopular campaign in support of the Haymarket defendants, resigned from his editorship of the Atlantic Monthly--whose readership had...
We're on a road to nowhere: Steinbeck, Kerouac, and the legacy of the great depression.(analysis of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath and Jack Kerouac's On the Road)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... At first glance, John Steinbeck's seminal Depression-era text The Grapes of Wrath (1939) would seem to have little in common with Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). However, like Steinbeck's work of realism, Kerouac's picaresque tale of mid-century fellahin hipsterdom serves also as a...
Realism, modernism, and the representation of memory in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In January 1939, the British playwright Dodie Smith travelled from London to see the American production of her play Dear Octopus (1938). When war was declared, she and her husband, who was a conscientious objector, decided not to return to Britain. Smith was removed from her usual audience...