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Studies in the Novel articles from December 1996
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 1996
Non-canonical women's novels of the Romantic era: Romantic ideologies and the problematics of gender and genre.
December 22, 1996... Until recently, the English Romantic-era novel has primarily been treated as separate from English Romanticism proper, as having virtually no points of contact with its aesthetics, themes, and ideologies. Exceptions have traditionally included...
The mystery at Thornfield: representations of madness in 'Jane Eyre.'
December 22, 1996... Leah shook her head, and the conversation was of course dropped. All
I had gathered from it amounted to this--that there was a mystery at
Thornfield; and that from participation in that mystery I was purposely
excluded. (Jane...
Resisting Gwendolen's "subjection": 'Daniel Deronda's proto-feminism. (novel by George Eliot)
December 22, 1996... George Eliot's feminism, as readers and critics regularly observe, is not untrammelled. While her novels readily reveal, to the late twentieth-century reader, the painful consequences for women of a patriarchy that denies them any desire...
The mythic Svengali: anti-aestheticism in 'Trilby.'
December 22, 1996... Writing about George Du Maurier in 1897, Henry James finds a "mystery" posed by the enormous public success of Du Maurier's Trilby (1894): "The case remains, . . . it is one of the most curious of our time." "Why did the public pounce on its...
Interiors and the interior life in Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth.'
December 22, 1996... No American author has written with more understanding and artistry about the interplay among character, social history, and domestic esthetics than has Edith Wharton. In 1897 she established herself as an authority on interiors with The...
Resurfacings of 'The Deeps': semiotic balance in Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.'
December 22, 1996... Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping has been claimed as a feminist work on the grounds that it rejects a symbolic, patriarchal order and the primacy of male characters.(1) But the novel's feminist charge resides equally in the tension it...
Djuna: The Life and Works of Djuna Barnes.
December 22, 1996... Phillip Herring's biography of Djuna Barnes is a wonderful "read" and a treasury of crucial information and documentation on Barnes' origins (with their transparent influence on her novels) and on the unusual life and career that produced some...
Fire and Power: The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative.
December 22, 1996... ATWILL, WILLIAM D. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994). 172 pp. $25.00.
Current affairs become history relatively quickly in our world, overloaded as it is with new technology and an excess of information. It should not be...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings.
December 22, 1996... KESSLER, CAROL FARLEY. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,1995).316 pp. $34.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.
Since the republication of her story "The Yellow Wall-paper" by the Feminist Press in 1973, Charlotte Perkins Gilman has been resurrected...
Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics.
December 22, 1996... KOPELSON, KEVIN. (Stanford University Press, 1994). xii + 194 pp. $12.95 paper; $37.50 cloth.
Kevin Kopelson's Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics has a broad title that tells us only that Stanford hopes to ride the wave of...
Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture.
December 22, 1996... LANGLAND, ELIZABETH. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995). x + 268 pp. $39.50 cloth, $15.95 paper.
The title of this book should Be unproblematic. The fun of the first two words we accept, being familiar with that hackneyed old...
Late Imperial Romance.
December 22, 1996... MCCLURE, JOHN. (London: Verso, 1994). 187 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling] hardback, 12.95 [pounds sterling] paperback.
Exoticism, as a discursive practice, has received much attention recently. In the words of Chris Bongie, whose Exotic Memories...
Latin America's New Historical Novel.
December 22, 1996... MENTON, SEYMOUR. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993). 240 pp. $30.00.
Seymour Menton's most recent book, Latin America's New Historical Novel, sets out to delineate and explore the territory occupied by the latest avatar of Latin...
Ethics, Theory, and the Novel.
December 22, 1996... PARKER, DAVID. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). x + 218 pp. $54.95 (cloth).
David Parker's inquiry into the ethics of the novel basically rests on two startling assumptions. While it is likely that these claims will "attract...
Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction.
December 22, 1996... RABINOVITZ, RUBIN. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1992). 218 pp. $34.95.
This is a collection of previously published essays that examine some of the formal and stylistic innovations of Beckett's novels and shorter prose...
The University in Modern Fiction: When Power is Academic.
December 22, 1996... ROSSEN, JANICE. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993). viii + 202 pp. $45.00.
The University in Modern Fiction discusses a number of novels, primarily British, that depict academic settings and characters. While the study does not purport to...