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Studies in the Novel articles from June 1996
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 1996
Men of sense and silly wives: the confusions of Mr. Knightley.
June 22, 1996... Debates about the authorial stance in Jane Austen's novels have often focused on Emma. The tension between Emma and Mr. Knightley and its final resolution inevitably raise questions about whether the author was upholding or challenging...
The psychology of loneliness in 'Wuthering Heights.'
June 22, 1996... As Walter Allen has observed, Wuthering Heights "is utterly unlike any other novel."(1) Historically, the most celebrated aspect of its uniqueness concerns the portrayal of character. According to E. M. Forster, "the emotions of Heathcliff and...
Maggie Tulliver's sad sacrifice: confusing but not confused.
June 22, 1996... One of the most vexing problems in George Eliot scholarship has always been the "sad... sacrifice[s]" (M, Finale, IV: 370) central to the stories of Janet Dempster, Maggie Tulliver, Romola de' Bardi, Fedalma, and Dorothea Brooke. That "[t]hey...
Sophia Lee and the Gothic of female community.
June 22, 1996... The Recess, claimed Montague Summers in 1938, "is a work of considerable note, and exercised upon the novel of the day an influence which yet waits to receive its due meed of recognition and esteem."(1) Not only is Summers's evaluation of the...
"God save us from bourgeois adventure": the figure of the terrorist in contemporary American conspiracy fiction.
June 22, 1996... As if to corroborate Richard Hofstadter's famous dictum about the ubiquity and surprising flexibility of conspiracy theory, recent historical events have led to a renewed interest in the kind of conspiracy theories characteristic of American...
The Politics of Modernism.
June 22, 1996... ESSAY-REVIEW: THE FUNCTION OF LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE MASSES
For several decades, the conventional wisdom was that during the early twentieth century, literature did not respond to social issues. Formalists and Marxists reached a...
Wisps of Violence: Producing Public and Private Politics in the Turn-of-the-Century British Novel.
June 22, 1996... ESSAY-REVIEW: THE FUNCTION OF LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE MASSES
For several decades, the conventional wisdom was that during the early twentieth century, literature did not respond to social issues. Formalists and Marxists reached a...
Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism.
June 22, 1996... ESSAY-REVIEW: THE FUNCTION OF LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE MASSES
For several decades, the conventional wisdom was that during the early twentieth century, literature did not respond to social issues. Formalists and Marxists reached a...
Modernism, Mass Culture, and Professionalism.
June 22, 1996... ESSAY-REVIEW: THE FUNCTION OF LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE MASSES
For several decades, the conventional wisdom was that during the early twentieth century, literature did not respond to social issues. Formalists and Marxists reached a...
The Dialogics of Dissent in the English Novel.
June 22, 1996... BALDRIDGE, CATES. (Hanover, NH: Middlebury College Press, 1994). 203 pp. $39.95.
During the last decade a number of important critical works on the English novel have reinvigorated scholarship on the genre, providing both historically...
Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text.
June 22, 1996... COMLEY, NANCY R. and ROBERT SCHOLES. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994). 154 pp. $23.00.
The authors of Hemingway's Genders conclude their book exuberantly: "The Hemingway you were taught about in high school is dead. Viva el...
Coleridge's Submerged Politics: "The Ancient Mariner" and "Robinson Crusoe."
June 22, 1996... KEANE, PATRICK J. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994). 419 pp. $35.00.
Patrick J. Keane's Coleridge's Submerged Politics is divided in two parts, one on Robinson Crusoe and one on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Both works, he...
Writing Against the Family: Gender in Lawrence and Joyce.
June 22, 1996... LEWIECKI--WILSON, CYNTHIA. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994). 301 pp. $34.95.
Writing Against the Family is an ambitious undertaking. In her study, Cynthia Lewiecki--Wilson sets out to explore gender issues, especially...
Approaches to Teaching Joyce's "Ulysses."
June 22, 1996... McCORMICK, KATHLEEN and ERWIN R. STEINBERG. (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993). xii + 178 pp. $37.50 cloth; $19.75 paper.
For the past sixteen years, MLA has published a valuable series of volumes devoted to the...
James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare.
June 22, 1996... SPOO, ROBERT. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). 195 pp. $39.95.
As Robert Spoo points out in his introduction, in writing a book about Joyce and history he is not exactly entering uncharted waters. "Joyce criticism has long...
Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America Through Europe.
June 22, 1996... STAHL, J. D. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1994). xvii + 231 pp. $35.00.
The title of J. D. Stahl's book suggests a social construction approach, while the subtitle implies a more conventional study of how Twain uses Europe to...