Studies in the Novel articles from December 1999

Studies in the Novel archives from December 1999

READING THE WOUND: WOLLSTONECRAFT'S WRONGS OF WOMAN, OR MARIA AND TRAUMA THEORY.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... In writing The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798)-her last unfinished novel-Wollstonecraft would appear to have been paralyzed or in the grip of a compulsion that allowed her only to imagine various scenarios of traumatic disaster for her...

ANN RADCLIFFE'S GOTHIC NARRATIVE AND THE READERS AT HOME.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... Many trips to Scotland are undoubtedly projected and executed, and many unfortunate connections formed, from the influence which novels gain over the mind. -- Catherine MacAulay, Letters on Education I. The Scene of Reading During...

"THE HUN IS AT THE GATE!": HISTORICIZING KIPLING'S MILITARISTIC RHETORIC, FROM THE IMPERIAL PERIPHERY TO THE NATIONAL CENTER.(Rudyard)(part 2)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... PART TWO: THE FRENCH, RUSSIAN, AND GERMAN THREATS TO GREAT BRITAIN For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!(1) It was an outraged and impassioned Kipling...

NOT BOMBSHELLS BUT BASKETCASES: GENDERED ILLNESS IN NUCLEAR TEXTS.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... Cold war narratives are often considered for the explosions and explosive elements they include--the detonated bomb at the end of Doctor Strangelove, pseudonuclear shootouts with martians and monsters, the "bombshell" figures of Hollywood films...

MEN GIVING BIRTH TO NEW WORLD ORDERS: MARTIN AMIS'S TIME'S ARROW.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... Explaining the [Nazi] perpetrators' actions demands... that the perpetrators' phenomenological reality be taken seriously. We must attempt the difficult enterprise of imagining ourselves in their places, performing their deeds, acting as they...

KANT TOUCH THIS: JOSEPH TABBI'S POSTMODERN SUBLIME.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... In Postmodern Sublime (1995),(1) Joe Tabbi takes a decisive step in the still--ongoing movement away from the tenets of a once--fashionable postmodernism. In the sober and suspect nineties, approaching a sublime millennial moment, the critical...

Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell.(Review)
December 22, 1999... BOWKER, GORDON. Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). 480 pp. $29.95. Ian MacNiven's long-awaited biography of Lawrence Durrell has finally appeared. It represents the work of...

Lawrence Durrell: A Biography.(Critical Essay)(Review)
December 22, 1999... MACNIVEN, IAN S. Lawrence Durrell: A Biography (London: Faber and Faber, 1998). 801 pp. $36.95. Ian MacNiven's long-awaited biography of Lawrence Durrell has finally appeared. It represents the work of virtually a whole professional...

Melville's Anatomies.(Review)
December 22, 1999... OTTER, SAMUEL. Melville's Anatomies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). xiii + 369 pp. $48.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. When the eponymous hero of Melville's Pierre whispers to his illegitimate half-sister Isabel something like...

Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, From Austin and Cather, to Tyler, Morrison and Didion.(Review)
December 22, 1999... STOUT, JANIS P. Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, From Austin and Cather, to Tyler, Morrison and Didion (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998). 304 pp. $39.95. This engaging and readable study...

"Who Lived at Alfoxton?": Virginia Woolf and English Romanticism.(Review)
December 22, 1999... TREMPER, ELLEN. "Who Lived at Alfoxton?": Virginia Woolf and English Romanticism (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1998). 299 pp. $43.50. In "Who Lived at Alfoxton ?" Ellen Tremper puts Woolf forward as a Romantic rather than a...