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Studies in the Novel articles from December 1997
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 1997
Closure and disclosure: the significance of conversation in Jane Austen's 'The Watsons.'
December 22, 1997... Between 1803 and 1805 while the Austen family resided at Bath, and after she had revised both Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen began a new work that has come to be called The Watsons.(1) Around 1805 Austen stopped...
"That 'ere Ingian's one of us!": orality and literacy in 'Wacousta.'
December 22, 1997... Once famous and now forgotten internationally, Wacousta endures in Canadian literature not only as a curiosity but because of its preoccupations with the garrison-versus-wilderness theme, which marks so much other Canadian writing; because its...
Style as politics in 'The Great Gatsby.'
December 22, 1997... The Great Gatsby is valued for the vividness with which it renders an historical era; perhaps more than by any other American novel written in the 1920s, we are convinced that we hear the voices of people speaking from that decade before the...
Mortifying the reader: the assault on verbal and visual consciousness in D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover.'
December 22, 1997... D. H. Lawrence is well known for his verbal and imagistic extravagances. What is less understood is his hostility toward the dominating influence of language and vision on Western consciousness. Today, we would say that he was opposed to the...
Mapping the "unmappable": inhabiting the fantastic interface of 'Gravity's Rainbow.'
December 22, 1997... The map as a mode of representation and as a metaphorical image of the representational impulse is an insistent presence both in studies of the postmodern and in postmodernist fiction. The map, its iconic status apparently assured, seems to...
The redemptive past in the neo-Victorian novel.
December 22, 1997... Over the last decade a number of novels have displayed a various and intriguing range of historical commitments. Although I will not attempt to take on the whole range here, I do want to explore a subset of the historical novel I think I can...
Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction Since 1960.
December 22, 1997... "Writing literary history in the present tense is never the least of wagers," Marc Chenetier reminds us in the Foreword to Beyond Suspicion. Originally published in French in 1989, the book focuses, as its subtitle indicates, on "New American...
Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays.
December 22, 1997... "Writing literary history in the present tense is never the least of wagers," Marc Chenetier reminds us in the Foreword to Beyond Suspicion. Originally published in French in 1989, the book focuses, as its subtitle indicates, on "New American...
Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age.
December 22, 1997... "Writing literary history in the present tense is never the least of wagers," Marc Chenetier reminds us in the Foreword to Beyond Suspicion. Originally published in French in 1989, the book focuses, as its subtitle indicates, on "New American...
Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness.
December 22, 1997... ANTONACCIO, MARIA and WILLIAM SCHWEIKER, eds. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996). 266 pps. $ 48-00.
Those accustomed to thinking of Iris Murdoch's work in philosophy as ancillary to her fiction may be stimulated by a collection...
The Making of the Hawthorne Subject.
December 22, 1997... EASTON, ALISON. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996). xiii + 311 pp. $49.95.
Alison Easton undertakes to examine Hawthorne's "intellectual and artistic enterprise" as evident in his writings from the time he graduated from Bowdoin...
Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition.
December 22, 1997... MACE, NANCY A. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996). 198 pp. $ 34.50.
Although Fielding's use of the classics has been the subject of many Scholarly inquiries, Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition is the first book to...
False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fictions.
December 22, 1997... RIVKIN, JULIE. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996). 225 pp. $35.00.
The stylistic richness and thematic density of James's oeuvre has long proven itself able to accommodate many different, and at times even contradictory,...
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit.
December 22, 1997... SINGLEY, CAROL J. (New York; Cambridge University Press, 1995). 260 pp. $49.95 cloth.
Carol J. Singley's Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit and Nancy Bentley's The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, and Wharton are welcome...
The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton.
December 22, 1997... BENTLEY, NANCY. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995). 256 pp. $49.95 cloth.
Carol J. Singley's Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit and Nancy Bentley's The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, and Wharton are welcome...
The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World.
December 22, 1997... WILLS, LAWRENCE M. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995). 279 pp. $37.50.
Lawrence Wills argues that there are five works from between 200 B.C.E. and 100 C.E. that belong to the genre "Jewish novel." They are the Greek Daniel (including...