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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2002
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 2002
"Am I a monster?": Jane Eyre among the shadows of freaks.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2002... Is it an Animal? Is it Human? Is it an Extraordinary Freak of Nature? Or is it a legitimate member of Nature's Work?
--The Illustrated London News, 29 August, 1846
In the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran...
"A great engine for good": the industry of fiction in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South.
December 22, 2002... Written in an age that evaded mundane representations of both women's and literary work, Elizabeth Gaskell's social-problem novels express discomfort with commercial and competitive enterprises. By the end of Mary Barton, the novel's most...
Triangulated passions: love, self-love, and the other in Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved.
December 22, 2002... ... but when I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.
W. H. Auden
In W. H. Auden's poem "In Praise of Limestone," faultless love...
The political limits of (Western) humanism in Andre Brink's early fiction.
December 22, 2002... Andre Brink's writing since the publication in 1974 in English of his first politically committed novel, Looking on Darkness, is usually read as an indictment of apartheid. Allan Findlay, writing in 1984, notes that "Brink has directed his...
Seven recent commentaries on Mark Twain. (Essay-Review).
December 22, 2002... Jonathan Arac. "Huckleberry Finn" as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
Ken Burns. Mark Twain. Television documentary, 2002.
Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua. The Jim Dilemma:...
Fleming, Robert E., ed. Hemingway and the Natural World.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1999. ix + 269 pp. $39.95.
Hemingway and the Natural World consists of eighteen essays selected from the Seventh International Hemingway Conference, held at Ketchum and Sun Valley, Idaho, in 1996. The...
Horsley, Lee. The Noir Thriller.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... New York: Palgrave, 2001. xi + 305 pp. $55.00.
Critics often view literary noir as a distinctly American form produced by such writers as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Films noirs,...
Pease, Allison. Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 244 pp., illus. $54.95.
The issue of obscenity in the arts has a venerable history, hand in hand with legal challenges and book banning. Joyce's Ulysses made for a landmark case in 1933,...
Peters, John G. Conrad and Impressionism.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiii + 206 pp. $54.95.
When I received this book, my first thought was: "Not Conrad and impressionism again!" This is a very well-worn (if not yet worn-out) topic. Numerous books, chapters,...
Rauch, Alan. Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. x + 292 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
Readers who seek out Alan Rauch's Useful Knowledge on the basis of the title are likely to be disappointed. The phrase "useful knowledge" is almost certain to...
Kirsten T. Saxton and Rebecca P. Bocchicchio, eds. The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays on Her Life and Work.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000. ix + 367 pp. $32.50.
Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) is everywhere these days. The past decade has seen a raft of new printings of her work, from classroom paperbacks of the novels to generous...
Seeber, Barbara K. General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press, 2000. viii + 160 pp. $42.95.
The dialogism of Ms. Seeber's subtitle signals the ground for her disagreements with previous critics, including Mary Poovey, Nancy Armstrong, and Marilyn Butler, who...
Steiner, George. Grammars of Creation.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 344 pp. $29.95.
In Grammars of Creation, George Steiner delivers an eloquent eulogy on the death of art and meaning as they have been known in the West. Part meditation, part lament, the book suggests...