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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2004
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 2004
The return of the prodigal daughter: finding the family in Amelia Opie's novels.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... Even as Amelia Opie becomes a better appreciated and more established writer in "novel studies," it is important to remember that Opie herself eschewed the novelistic label for her works. In her address "To the Reader" that precedes The Father...
Glazed expression: Mary Barton, ghosts and glass.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... I begin with some problematic sightseeing. In its 1855 survey of charitable activity in London, The Quarterly Review described the spectacle of freshly opened dark space brought to light in the recent street clearances:
The reader may,...
Americanness becomes modernism in James's The Ambassadors.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... Gertrude Stein said, famously, that Henry James was "the only nineteenth century writer who being an American felt the method of the twentieth century" (78). Like so much of Stein's writing, this statement mixes hyperbole with an acute critical...
The confessions of Todd Andrews: double-directed discourse in The Floating Opera.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... John Barth's first novel, The Floating Opera, has received more varied critical attention, ironically enough, than his more sophisticated, self-regarding works that court this kind of "indeterminacy." Although Barth's later works have drawn a...
The social construction of homosexuality in Iris Murdoch's fiction.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2004... In his recent biography of his Murdoch, Peter Conradi praises the novelist and philosopher for her "sympathetic and adventurous" treatment of homosexuality (424). A detailed reading of Conradi's work may reveal the underlying basis for...
Women and novelistic authority.(Women and the Rise of the Novel)(Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel)(Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... JOSEPHINE DONOVAN. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. $18.95 paper. xiii + 176 pp.
CAROLINE A. JEWERS. Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida,...
Bock, Martin. Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... BOCK, MARTIN. Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002 xxiii + 278 pp. $34.95.
This well-written, thoroughly researched study reads Conrad's fiction in two contexts. Most generally, Bock considers...
Brantlinger, Patrick and William B. Thesing, Eds. A Companion to the Victorian Novel.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... BRANTLINGER, PATRICK AND WILLIAM B. THESING, EDS. A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Company, 2002. xii + 513 pp. $124.95.
Among other attributes the Victorian Period has been called The Age of the Novel. Ours...
Chaudhuri, Amit. D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... CHAUDHURI, AMIT. D. H. Lawrence and 'Difference': Postcoloniality and the Poetry of the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 226 + xii pp. $29.95.
This postcolonial study of D. H. Lawrence's poetry by the writer and critic Amit...
Cooper, Brenda, Weary Sons of Conrad: White Fiction Against the Grain of Africa's Dark Heart.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... COOPER, BRENDA, Weary Sons of Conrad: White Fiction Against the Grain of Africa's Dark Heart. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 344pp. $34.95.
Brenda Cooper's Weary Sons of Conrad is a profuse and insightful analysis of late twentieth-century...
Nel, Philip. The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... NEL, PHILIP. The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. 224 pp. $45.00.
In Les Chants de Maldoror, Lantreamont famously describes the young and soon-to-be-murdered...
Zender, Karl F. Faulkner and the Politics of Reading.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... ZENDER, KARL F. Faulkner and the Politics of Reading. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xviii + 179 pp. $29.95.
In his second published collection of critical essays on the work of William Faulkner, Karl F. Zender...