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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2000
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 2000
DIARIES AND DISPLACEMENT IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
December 22, 2000... It is self-evident, if soon forgettable, that Wuthering Heights opens as a diary: "1801--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord."(1) Yet, though Lockwood's voice begins the novel, the dated entry, immediacy, and first person account...
JOSEPH CONRAD'S "SUDDEN HOLES" IN TIME: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TEMPORALITY.
December 22, 2000... "Eternity is a damned hole. It's time that you need."
--The Secret Agent
Throughout his works, Conrad investigates the human experience of time and its relationship to knowledge of the external world.(1) J. M. Kertzer has argued, "For...
DREAMING HOLMBERRY-LIPPED TESS: ABORIGINAL REVERIE AND SPECTATORIAL DESIRE IN TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES.
December 22, 2000... "Well, if you look at it their way," he grinned, "the whole of bloody Australia's a sacred site."
"Explain," I said.
--The Songlines Bruce Chatwin(1)
You upset me baby Yeah you upset me baby Like being hit by a falling tree Woman...
"WHEN SOMETIMES SHE IMAGINED HERSELF LIKE HER MOTHER": THE CONTRASTING RESPONSES OF CAM AND MRS. RAMSAY TO THE ROLE OF THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.(Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse")
December 22, 2000... It is a rare occasion that an author with as interesting a life history as Virginia Woolf openly admits her novel's autobiographical foundation, and most criticism, in order to revel in this exceptional opportunity, has used To the Lighthouse...
WORKING TOWARD "UNITY IN DIVERSITY": RAPE AND THE RECONCILIATION OF COLOR AND COMRADE IN AGNES SMEDLEY'S DAUGHTER OF EARTH.
December 22, 2000... Critics interested in both the literature of the radical 1930s and in feminist literature acknowledge Agnes Smedley's 1929 fictional autobiography Daughter of Earth as a seminal text. Smedley's story--her rise from impoverished frontier school...
The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order.(Review)
December 22, 2000... BACKUS, MARGOT GAYLE. The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). 291 pp. $17.95.
In the past twenty years or so, criticism of the gothic tradition,...
The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino.(Review)
December 22, 2000... BRINK, ANDRE. The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino (New York: New York University Press, 1998). 373 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
It is almost irresistibly tempting to scrutinize Andre Brink's study of the novel genre through...
Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity.(Review)
December 22, 2000... KNOEPFLMACHER, U. C. Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998). xxi + 444 pp. $35.00.
"Sentence first, verdict afterwards," to quote the Queen of Hearts. Everyone...
Portraits of Artists: Warriors in the Novels of William Kennedy.(Review)
December 22, 2000... LYNCH, VIVIAN VALVANO. Portraits of Artists: Warriors in the Novels of William Kennedy (Lanham, NY: International Scholars Publications, 1999). xii + 277 pp. $52.00.
Since the appearance of Ironweed in 1983, the writings of William Kennedy...
The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction.(Review)
December 22, 2000... TAYLOR, CAROLE ANNE. The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). 280 pp. $39.95.
Carole Anne Taylor's study of modern Black women's fiction...
Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War.(Review)
December 22, 2000... YOUNG, ELIZABETH. Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American
Civil War (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1999). xvi + 389pp. $18.00.
Disarming the Nation puts Elizabeth Young in the vanguard of the best scholars...