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Studies in the Novel articles from June 1993
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 June 1993
Learning to read Richardson: 'Pamela,' 'speaking pictures,' and the visual hermeneutic. (Samuel Richardson)
June 22, 1993... I 'art du grand poete et du grand peintre eat
de vous montrer une circonstance fugitive
qui vous avait echappe . . . Peintres,
poetes, gens de gout, gens de bien, lisez
Richardson; lisez-le sans cesse.
Denis Diderot:...
Reading the symptoms: an exploration of repression and hysteria in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'
June 22, 1993... Why isn't one a beastly girl and privileged to shriek?
Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End, 1925
Critics of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein have articulated a multiplicity of gendered characteristics in her protagonist, Victor Frankenstein....
"By no means an improbable fiction": 'Redgauntlet''s novel historicism.
June 22, 1993... "Sir Walter Scott . . . has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them in a manner which may well excite their envy," Macaulay observed in 1828, "But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...
The instabilities of inheritance in 'Oliver Twist.'
June 22, 1993... Dickens' decision to represent Oliver Twist as incorruptible has exposed both author and character to considerable abuse.(1) Exactly why did Dickens pursue such a strategy? I will argue that Dickens represents his hero as morally immune from...
The tailor transformed: Kingsley's 'Alton Locke' and the notion of change. (Charles Kingsley)
June 22, 1993... Do I say that this is all? That man is merely a part of Nature, the puppet of
circumstances and hereditary tendencies? That brute competition is the one
law of his life? That he is doomed forever to be the slave of his own needs....
Edith Wharton's "bad heroine": Sophy Viner in 'The Reef.'
June 22, 1993... More than two decades ago in her thoughtful comparative study of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Millicent Bell observed Wharton's interest in what James called the "bad heroine"--the type of woman with no fortune, like Kate Croy in The Wings of...
Erskine Caldwell and the Fiction of Poverty: The Flesh and the Spirit.
June 22, 1993... COOK, SYLVIA JENKINS. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1991). 301 pp. $37.50.
This is a welcome book--the best single authored, comprehensive study to date of Erskine Caldwell, a significant and neglected author....
Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity.
June 22, 1993... GARD, ROGER. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992). 261 pp. $30.00.
In New York City, at an annual meeting of the Jane Austen society of North America, I met an elderly woman from Iowa. She had saved her egg money all year to come,...
Hardy's Fables of Integrity: Woman, Body, Text.
June 22, 1993... GARSON, MARJORIE. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991). x + 198 pp. $52.00.
Thomas Hardy's lifelong, rather sadly comedic preoccupation with his own "deteriorating" health is well known among those familiar with his biography. Expecting death...
Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic.
June 22, 1993... HELLER, TAMAR. (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992). ix + 201 pp. $25.00.
Dead Secrets is a book that offers some fine insights into Wilkie Collins early writings, but much of its virtue is undercut by what might be called template...
Faulkner and the Thoroughly Modern Novel.
June 22, 1993... HLAVSA, VIRGINIA V. JAMES. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991). 228 pp. $25.00.
This is a book-length study of Faulkner's Light in August, which he wrote in 1932, when he was in his mid-thirties and at the top of his form...
D.H. Lawrence: Sexual Crisis.
June 22, 1993... KELSEY, NIGEL. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991). 197 pp. $45.00.
Invoking an array of theorists whose works provide its conceptual underpinnings (Kristeva, Foucault, Barthes, and, perhaps most importantly, Bakhtin), Nigel Kelsey's D....
In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic.
June 22, 1993... MASSE, MICHELLE A. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UnIversIty Press, 1992). 301 pp. $39.95 cloth; $14.95 pape
Hardy's Tess persists in refusing to blame her husband for subtle cruelty for so long that today's undergraduates become angry at her. Like...
The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity.
June 22, 1993... POSNOCK, ROSS. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). xiv + 358 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
Ross Posnock's capacious study of the James brothers and modernism usefully corrects the widely and stubbornly held view of Henry James as...
Defoe's Politics: Parliament, Power, Kingship and Robinson Crusoe.
June 22, 1993... SCHONHORN, MANUEL. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). xii + 174 pp. $39.50.
As is often the case with current academic studies, the subtitle of Professor Schonhorn's book is a far better guide to its actual subject matter than...
Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions.
June 22, 1993... SIEGEL, CAROL. (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1991). 232pp. $25.00.
Any reader of D. H. Lawrence, casual or committed, must be struck by the author's sympathy for women, his misogynist tendencies notwithstanding....
Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing.
June 22, 1993... WAID, CANDACE. (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press,1991).237 pp. $29.95 cloth; $10.95 paper.
In the familiar myth of Persephone and Demeter, the daughter Persephone is torn away from her corn-goddess mother and...