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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2001
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 2001
"Too neat for a beggar": charity and debt in Burney's Cecilia.(Frances Burney)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... Newly arrived in London, the eponymous heroine of Frances Burney's second novel, Cecilia (1782), soon rejects the fashionable life of dissipation practiced by her guardian Harrel and his wife, devising in its place a "scheme of happiness" that...
Confusions of guilt and complications of evil: hysteria and the high price of love at Mansfield Park (1).(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... The hysteric is, to my eyes, the typical Woman in all her Force.
-- Helene Cixous, Newly Born Woman
Let me ask this plain and rational question,--is not woman a human being, gifted with all the feelings that inhabit the bosom of man?....
"The ordinary rules of the pave": urban spaces in Scott's Fortunes of Nigel.(Sir Walter Scott )(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... It scarcely needs mentioning that Sir Walter Scott is not known for his representations of cities. While London is projected as a destination for Jeanie Deans and Edward Waverley, or as a point of origin for Rob Roy's Frank Osbaldistone, the...
Miriam and the conversion of the Jews in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... I
On June 23, 1858, while Hawthorne was arriving in Florence from Rome and preparing to complete his final romance, The Marble Faun, the Papal military stormed into the Bologna home of Momolo and Marianne Mortara, seizing one of their...
"Practically dead with fine rivalry": the leaning towers of Katherine Anne Porter and Glenway Wescott.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001...
"Who is not afraid? Who wants war?"
-Glenway Wescott, Fear and Trembling
In consecutive years at the start of World War II Katherine Anne Porter and the now little-read but then celebrated Glenway Wescott published novellas (1) set in...
American Dream: American Nightmare--Fiction Since 1960. (Essay-review: "extreme specialization" and the broad highway: approaching contemporary American fiction).
December 22, 2001... Kathryn Hume. American Dream: American Nightmare--Fiction Since 1960 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000). 359 pp. $39.95 cloth.
American fiction has been transformed radically since the middle of the twentieth century. The...
Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America. (Essay-review: "extreme specialization" and the broad highway: approaching contemporary American fiction).
December 22, 2001... Patricia P. Chu. Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000). 241 pp. $49.95 cloth. $17.95 paper.
American fiction has been transformed radically since the middle of the...
A Companion to "V.". (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... GRANT, J. KERRY A companion to "V." (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2001). xv + 224 pp. $18.00.
If these books are any indication, the Thomas Pynchon industry seems to be in full swing. Author of A Companion to "The Crying of Lot...
Pynchon and "Mason & Dixon". (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... HORVATH, BROOKE and IRVING MALIN, Pynchon and "Mason & Dixon" eds., (New ark: University of Delaware Press and London: Associated University Presses, 2000). 232 pp. $39.50.
If these books are any indication, the Thomas Pynchon industry...
Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... LECKIE, BARBARA, Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). 300 pp. $37.50.
Not only is there no English Madame Bovary, the topic of adultery, according to...
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... LEWIS, PERICLES, Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). 241 pp. $59.00.
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel considers the relationship between modernism and nationalism (particularly as it...
Writing the North: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... PELASCHIAR, LAURA, Writing the Worth: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland (Preface by Renzo S. Crivelli) (Trieste: Edizioni Parnaso, 1998). 158 pp. 8 [pounds sterling] sterling: 20,000 Italian Lira.
Understanding the contemporary...
Anais Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity. (Reviews).
December 22, 2001... RICHARD-ALLERDYCE, DIANE, Anais Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998). 223 pp. $37.60.
The current state of Nin criticism is lamentable. We have three...
Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above!
December 22, 2001... SCHORK, R. J., Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above! (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000). 256 pp. $49.95.
In the "Ithaca" chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom discuss "the progenitors of...