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Studies in the Novel articles from December 1993
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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Studies in the Novel archives from December 1993
The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon.
December 22, 1993... BONAPARTE, FELICIA. The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon (Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1992).x +310 pp. $37.50.
This book offers a well-written, well-constructed argument that adds an...
Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569-1791.
December 22, 1993... DIPIERO, THOMAS. Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569-1791 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992). 401 pp. $35.00.
This book is a masterful attempt to highlight the ideological...
The Risen Adam: D.H. Lawrence's Revisionist Typology.
December 22, 1993... HYDE, VIRGINIA. The Risen Adam: D.H. Lawrence's Revisionist Typology (University Park: Penn State Press, 1992). 262 pp. $32.50.
The initial image that Virginia Hyde presents us of D.H. Lawrence is not the risen Adam proclaimed by her title,...
Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader.
December 22, 1993... KEYMER, TOM. Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxiii + 270 pp. $59.95.
Tom Keymer's book is timely for its concern with readers and with Richardson's intentions. Indeed,...
Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice.
December 22, 1993... LANSER, SUSAN SNIADER. Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992). 287 pp. Cloth $39.95. Paper $12.95.
In 1929, in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf made her famous claim that,...
Dissident Postmodernists: Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon.
December 22, 1993... MALTBY, PAUL. Dissident Postmodernist: Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). 215 pp. $27.95.
This is a good book about postmodern political art, whether or not postmodernism really exists as...
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy.
December 22, 1993... MEYERS, JEFFREY. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy (New York: Scribners, 1992). 348 pp. $30.00.
This volume is not a work of original archival research; it is a reworking of other's published material, a synthesis designed for the...
Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines.
December 22, 1993... MILLER, J. HILLIS. Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992). xviii + 280 pp. $30.00.
It is only natural to have high expectations when a critic and theorist of the stature of J. Hillis Miller focusses his...
Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction.
December 22, 1993... PRINCE, GERALD. Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992). 161 pp. $25.00.
Prince is one of the academy's leading experts on narratology. His background in French literature insures his...
Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W.M. Thackeray.
December 22, 1993... SHILLINGSBURG, PETER L. Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. vii + 301 pp. $40.00.
Art, say you, is above paltry...
Loose ends in 'Roxana' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman.'
December 22, 1993... In Defoe's Roxana the Dutch Merchant devises a cunning plan whereby, he thinks, he can overcome Roxana's reluctance to marry him: he will inveigle her into bed with him and then offer to make an honest woman of her. Neither the plan nor its...
"Filial duty": reading the patriarchal body in 'The Custom House.'
December 22, 1993... Shall these bones live?
In narrating Hawthorne's transition form the "office" of civil servant to that of romance writer, "The Custom House" is a protracted and rhetorically complex meditation on the gendered, historically determined...
"The way our people came": citizenship, capitalism and racial difference in 'The Valley of the Moon.'
December 22, 1993... The conclusion of Jack London's novel, Burning Daylight (1910), manifests a generic shift from naturalism to Howellsian Realism that results in the establishment of the family as a unit occupying a privileged space beyond the reach of the...
The vampire lust in D.H. Lawrence.
December 22, 1993... Recently, James Twitchell has provided a refreshing perspective on Lawrence's male-female relationships by examining them in terms of the vampire myth. In his study Twitchell sees the many love relationships in The Rainbow (1915) and Women in...
'A Farewell to Arms' and the Sunday-school Jesus.
December 22, 1993... Subsequent to the publication in 1952 of The Old Man and the Sea--with its climactic image of Santiago, hands lacerated, shouldering his cross-like mast--the role of Christ in the Hemingway canon began to attract critical attention. The...
"The lie we must learn to live by": honor and tradition in 'All the King's Men.'
December 22, 1993... In this short story "The Circus in the Attic," Robert Penn Warren tells of a monument erected in patriotic ardor by those "defenders of ancient pieties and the repositories of the ignorance of history," the United Daughters of the Confederacy....