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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2007
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 2007
Angelic realism: domestic idealization in Mary Shelley's Lodore.
December 22, 2007... Although recent critical efforts to assess Mary Shelley's literary achievements "beyond Frankenstein" (as the subtitle to the collection The Other Mary Shelley puts it) have yielded fine discussions of her other novels, her next-to-last Lodore...
ASMA (1873): the early Arabic novel as a social compass.
December 22, 2007... The emergence of the modern Arabic novel dates back to the nineteenth century, yet until the 1950s, poetry remained the leading Arabic literary genre (Snir 68-69). During this period, the novel was perceived as a lower or non-canonical genre....
"Not a novel, nor even a well-ordered story": formal experimentation and psychological innovation in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins.
December 22, 2007... From the time of its publication, Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins (1893) has been recognized not only as sexually polemical but also as a formally intractable novel. On the one hand, the structure of this extraordinary work, as a number of...
Dallying with dailiness: Amit Chaudhuri's Flaneur fictions.
December 22, 2007... In fall 2002, the Indian novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri spoke at Columbia University where he was a visiting professor at the School of the Arts. He discussed his anthology, The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, which had been...
Postcolonial melancholia in Ian McEwan's Saturday.
December 22, 2007... Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005) appeared within a week that saw the publication of a Guardian article by Leo Benedictus in which London was celebrated as "the most cosmopolitan place on earth," the home of "Every race, colour, nation and religion...
The canonization of Philip Roth.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Posnock, Ross. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xxiv +301 pp. $29.95.
Safer, Elaine. Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth. New York: State University of New York...
Making sense of "race" and ethnicity in literature.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Cappell, Ezra. American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. x + 233 pp. $75.00 cloth.
Franco, Dean J. Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African...
Berman, Ronald. Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell.(Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women's Fiction Between the Wars)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... BERMAN, RONALD. Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. 136 pp. $35.00.
NESBITT, JENNIFER POULOS. Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women's Fiction Between the Wars....
Byerman, Keith. Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... BYERMAN, KEITH. Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 228 pp. $19.95.
As far as most critics are concerned, the tendency among contemporary African American...
Christensen, Allan Conrad. The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... CHRISTENSEN, ALLAN CONRAD. The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. 258 pp. $49.50.
The impressive range of critical essays in this new collection reflects the notable...
Cowart, David. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... COWART, DAVID. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2006. 249 pp. $19.95.
Among the several recent books that examine ethnic American writers in comparison across cultures, David Cowart's...
Dore, Florence. The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... DORE, FLORENCE. The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. 167 pp. $50.00.
Florence Dore's The Novel and the Obscene offers a reading of four modernist American novels...
Morel, Lucas E., ED. Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man.(So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... MOREL, LUCAS E., ED. Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. xiv + 249 pp. $45.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.
WARREN, KENNETH W. So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison...
Papayanis, Marilyn Adler. Writing in the Margins: The Ethics of Expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... PAPAYANIS, MARILYN ADLER. Writing in the Margins: The Ethics of Expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. 296 pp. $69.95 cloth; $34.95 paper.
The expatriate experience, often viewed with a great...
Rawlings, Peter. American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling, Wayne C. Booth.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... RAWLINGS, PETER. American Theorists of the Novel: Henry James, Lionel Trilling, Wayne C. Booth. New York: Routledge, 2006. xii + 171 pp. $90.00 cloth; $23.95 paper.
Some years ago, Routledge inaugurated its Critical Thinkers series, with...
Walker, Maggie, and Mark Walker. Dreiser's "Other Self": The Life of Arthur Henry.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... WALKER, MAGGIE, AND MARK WALKER. Dreiser's "Other Self": The Life of Arthur Henry. McKinleyville, CA: Fithian Press, 2005. 258 pp. $17.95.
Arthur Henry (1867-1934) is known primarily as the intimate friend who inspired Theodore Dreiser to...
Winnberg, Jakob. An Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Sentimentum and the Novels of Graham Swift.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... WINNBERG, JAKOB. An Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Sentimentum and the Novels of Graham Swift. Gothenburg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003. 210 pp. $72.50.
Though terms such as affect, emotion, sentiment, and feeling have...