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Studies in the Novel articles from December 1998
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 1998
THE NARRATIVE CIRCLE: THE INTERPOLATED TALES IN 'JOSEPH ANDREWS.'.(Henry Fielding)
December 22, 1998... There are sometimes events in or features of novels that, although somewhat anomalous or irrelevant to the normally constituted action, seem to draw disproportionate amounts of critical attention. The interpolated tales in Joseph...
LYDIA MELFORD AND THE ROLE OF THE CLASSICAL BODY IN SMOLLETT'S 'HUMPHRY CLINKER.'.
December 22, 1998... In Smollett's Humphry Clinker, Jery Melford describes his sister Lydia as "a fine tall girl, of seventeen, with an agreeable person; but remarkably simple, and quite ignorant of the world" (April 2, p. 10) and Charles Dennison (the person in...
THE OTHER WOMAN IN 'DANIEL DERONDA.'.(George Eliot)
December 22, 1998... Although a number of George Eliot's novels are concerned with national destiny and various types of otherness, Daniel Deronda is Eliot's only novel of contemporary Victorian life and the most critical of the rhetoric of Englishness, the...
MATTHEW LEWIS'S BLACK MASS: SEXUAL, RELIGIOUS INVERSION IN 'THE MONK.'.
December 22, 1998... Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796) is the most controversial of the classic Gothic novels published between 1764 and 1820.(1) From its inception, the novel's overt sexuality--its depictions of "Catholic" incest and lust--and, later, its ambiguous,...
"MATERIAL WITHOUT BEING REAL": PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE END OF REALITY IN 'THE GREAT GATSBY.'.(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
December 22, 1998... The first-class compartment was stifling; the vivid advertising cards of the railroad companies--The Pont du Gard at Arles, the Amphitheatre at Orange, winter sports at Chamonix--were fresher than the long motionless sea outside. (Tender is the...
'BELOVED' AND THE PROBLEM OF MOURNING.(Toni Morrison)
December 22, 1998... How can it be preserved, even by thought? How can thought be made the keeper of the holocaust where all was lost?
Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster
Making a space for the transgressive image, the outlaw rebel vision, is...
WITNESSING "HISTORY" OTHERWISE: MUKUL KESAVAN'S 'LOOKING THROUGH GLASS.'.
December 22, 1998... It was the kind of assignment I would never have got without the long lens. I had been commissioned by the India Magazine to illustrate an essay on the Use of Lime Plaster and Stucco in Nawabi Lucknow and the author wanted blown-up details of...
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings.(Review)
December 22, 1998... BARRETT, EILEEN, and PATRICIA CRAMER, eds. Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings (New York: New York University Press, 1997). 352pp. $55.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.
New York University Press's "Lesbian Life and Literature" series has added another...
Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915.(Review)
December 22, 1998... CAMPBELL, DONNA M. Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997). x + 233 pp. $36.95.
As a reaction against Howellsian timidity, American naturalistic fiction has often...
Meredith and the Novel.(Review)
December 22, 1998... ROBERTS, NEIL. Meredith and the Novel (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). 286pp. $55.00.
George Meredith's novels, with their complex, idiosyncratic, shifting narrative voices, virtually cry out for a Bakhtinian reading. Yet while many...
Melville: A Biography.(Review)
December 22, 1998... ROBERTSON-LORANT, LAURIE. Melville: A Biography (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996). 752 pp. $40.00.
In a footnote near the end of her book, Laurie Robertson-Lorant writes that "despite the voluminous archival material available to scholars,...
Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens.(Review)
December 22, 1998... ROSENBERG, BRIAN. Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1996). 165 pp. $35.95.
If literary studies is at the best of times a squishy sort of academic discipline, the...
Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing.(Review)
December 22, 1998... WALSHE, EIBHEAR, ed. Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). x + 291 pp. $19.95.
This collection of essays represents an important addition to studies of cultural, colonial, postcolonial, and gender...