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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2005
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 2005
"I shall enter her heart": fetishizing feeling in Clarissa.
December 22, 2005... In its barest narrative terms, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (1747-1748) is a novel in letters about bow a notorious libertine kidnaps and rapes a young woman to seek revenge on her family and test her virtue. The...
"There are plenty of houses": architecture and genre in the Portrait of a Lady.
December 22, 2005... "It's not damp, by the way; I've had the house thoroughly examined; it's perfectly safe and right. But if you shouldn't fancy it you needn't dream of living in it... there are plenty of houses."
James, Portrait 163
Lord Warburton...
Gissing's moral mischief: prostitutes and narrative resolution.(George Gissing)
December 22, 2005... The figure of the prostitute certainly has a significant place in the Victorian novel, but conventionally it is a peripheral one. George Gissing, however, not only positions prostitutes at the center of Workers in the Dawn (1880) and The...
Bringing out the Beast in Melville's Billy Budd: The Dialogue of Darwinian and "Holy" Lexicons on Board the Bellipotent.(Herman Melville)
December 22, 2005... Since its posthumous publication in 1924 by Raymond Weaver, Melville's last novel has been read as a Manichean portrayal of the conflict between good and evil; an illustration of the dialectical materialism of Marxism; a testament to Melville's...
Jane Harrison and lesbian plots: The absent lover in Virginia Woolf's The Waves.
December 22, 2005...
as the current answers don't do, one has to grope for a new
one; & the process of discarding the old, when one is by no
means certain what to put in their pace, is a sad one. Still,...
what answers do Arnold Bennett or...
"The last to see them alive": panopticism, The supervisory gaze, and catharsis in Capote's In Cold Blood.
December 22, 2005... George Plimpton's Truman Capote (1997), a self-proclaimed "oral biography," revisits Capote's In Cold Blood and the author's often flamboyant interaction with the individuals from whom he gleaned the details necessary for his famous "nonfiction...
Rival readings: Dickens and....("Fortune's Wheel: Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time", "Dickens on Screen, Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar's Pavilion Versus Cinderella", "Dickens, Melodrama, and the Parodic Imagination" and "Reading the City, Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism")(Book review)
December 22, 2005... CAMPBELL, ELIZABETH A. Fortune's Wheel." Dickens and the Iconography of Women's Time. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2003. xxiv + 253 pp., illus. $42.95.
GLAVIN, JOHN, ed. Dickens on Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003....
Danius, Sara. The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... DANIUS, SARA. The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. 256 pp. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
Sara Danius has produced a groundbreaking study of the impact of technology on...
Dewey, Joseph, Steven G. Kellman, and Irving Malin, eds. Underwords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... DEWEY, JOSEPH, STEVEN G. KELLMAN, AND IRVING MALIN, EDS. Underwords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002. 219 pp. $39.50.
Published in 1997, Don DeLillo's massive Underworld clearly marks a...
Mullin, Katherine. James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... MULLIN, KATHERINE. James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 224 pp. $60.00.
Katherine Mullin's new study of the influence of the American, British, and Irish social purity movements upon James...
Scott, R. Neil and Valerie Nye. Postmarked Milledgeville: A Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Correspondence in Libraries and Archives.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... SCOTT, R. NEIL AND VALERIE NYE. Postmarked Milledgeville: A Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Correspondence in Libraries and Archives. Milledgeville: Georgia College and State University, 2002. 76 pp. $15.70.
The publication of R. Neff Scott...
Turner, Harriet and Adelaida Lopez de Martinez. The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel From 1600 to the Present.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... TURNER, HARRIET and ADELAIDA LOPEZ de MARTINEZ. The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel From 1600 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 304 pp. $26.00.
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel is a valuable...
Wood, James. The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel.(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... WOOD, JAMES. The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 320pp. $24.00.
This second collection of essays from celebrated British critic James Wood brings together pieces written between 1999...