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Studies in the Novel articles from June 1999
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 1999
SUBVERTING TRAGIC CONVENTIONS: APHRA BEHN'S TURN TO THE NOVEL.(Critical Essay)(Review)
June 22, 1999... Aphra Behn's concern with the difference between the standards of criticism applied to her as a female playwright and those applied to the male dramatists of her era is evident in the oft-cited lines from her preface to The Luckey Chance, or An...
"BE WARY, SIR, WHEN YOU IMITATE HIM": THE PERILS OF DIDACTICISM IN TRISTRAM SHANDY.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. [Nature] laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science. That she gave to all, as necessary to all; this to a few only,...
"WITHIN THE DOMAIN OF CHAOS": NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, LUCRETIAN PHYSICS, AND MARTIAL LOGIC.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... "The Union," declared Hawthorne in 1860, "is unnatural, a scheme of man, not an ordinance of God." For Hawthorne, the idea of national unity did not merit the shedding of blood; if it were to become a question of war for such a cause, he would...
THE DELINQUENT'S SABBATH; OR, THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: THE MATTER OF BODIES IN "NATIVE SON".(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... While many critics have been drawn to the compelling subject of voice in Native Son, most have ignored the equally compelling matter of bodies in Wright's powerful 1940 novel.(1) But bodies are everywhere in, and everything to, this story of...
GLOSSING SCRIPTS AND SCRIPTING PLEASURE IN MISHIMA'S CONFESSIONS OF A MASK.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... Yukio Mishima's first novel Kamen no Kokuhaku (Confessions of a Mask) not only catapulted him into prominence as one of the top writers of postwar Japan when it was published in 1949, but also remains one of the most popular and most often...
OEDIPUSCRIPTS.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Dynamic theories of narrative that attempt to explain narratives in terms of their own interiority and energy (the Freudian motive of text), or else in terms of resistance, the working-out of political power (the Foucauldian economy, loosely),...
The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot.(Review)
June 22, 1999... ALLEY, HENRY. The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997). 182 pp. $33.50.
Henry Alley's The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot proposes to deal with Eliot's book-length...
Tobias Smollett: Novelist.(Review)
June 22, 1999... BEASLEY, JERRY C. Tobias Smollett: Novelist (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1998). x + 259 pp. $45.00.
Tobias Smollett's significance in British eighteenth-century letters is indisputable. A prolific and varied author, he...
The Birth of "Wuthering Heights": Emily Bronte at Work.(Review)
June 22, 1999... CHITHAM, EDWARD. The Birth of Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte at Work (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). 232 pp. $49.95.
Editing a second edition of her late sister's novel and responding to various early reviewers, Charlotte Bronte...
British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own.(Review)
June 22, 1999... LASSNER, PHYLLIS. British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). 293 pp. $55.00.
Both Lassner and Schneider are American scholars who have joined a growing number of predominantly...
Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War.(Review)
June 22, 1999... SCHNEIDER, KAREN. Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997). 221 pp. $34.95.
Both Lassner and Schneider are American scholars who have joined a growing number of predominantly...
American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place.(Review)
June 22, 1999... PIZER, DONALD. American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996). xv+149 pp. $30.00.
There are segments in Donald Pizer's American Expatriate Writing and the Paris...
The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel.(Review)
June 22, 1999... STERN, JULIA. The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). xiii + 306 pp. Cloth: $48.00 Paper: $18.95.
Julia Stern's first book presents itself as an "affective...
Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race.(Review)
June 22, 1999... TATE, CLAUDIA. Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 238 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
Claudia Tate's Psychoanalysis and Black Novels is a flawed study that...