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Studies in the Novel articles from June 2000
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 2000
INTRODUCTION.
June 22, 2000... In spite of examining novels ranging across some 280 years and a number of disparate cultures, the essays in this collection reveal that authors represent death as a means to explore the cultural, psychic, and political deployment of power....
COURTING DEATH: NECROPHILIA IN SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S CLARISSA.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Though the psychological parallelism between Lovelace and Clarissa has been previously examined, their analogous sexual identifications have received only brief attention. From Clarissa's threats of suicide and Lovelace's anesthetized rape of...
THE MEDICAL GAZE AND THE FEMALE CORPSE: LOOKING AT BODIES IN MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... In the nineteenth century, practices which involved looking at dead bodies were classified as potentially perverse. Observing the body and writing about it in meticulous detail became a hallmark of the era, as bodies on display in hospitals,...
"THE WOMAN SHALL BEAR HER INIQUITY":(1) DEATH AS SOCIAL DISCIPLINE IN THOMAS HARDY'S THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... "How could there be any good in a woman everybody spoke ill of?"(2) In the most emotionally charged scene between husband and wife in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, Clym Yeobright thus finally succumbs to the view of Eustacia Vye's...
"TAUGHT BY DEATH WHAT LIFE SHOULD BE": ELIZABETH GASKELL'S REPRESENTATION OF DEATH IN NORTH AND SOUTH.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Literature in the nineteenth century was a discourse in which the representation of death was enormously popular. One need only remember that Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), in which we read about little Nell's death, sold 100,000...
THE FEMINIST ABJECT: DEATH AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THEORY.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... The corpse (or cadaver: cadere, to fall), that which has irremediably come a cropper, is cesspool, and death; it upsets even more violently the one who confronts it as fragile and fallacious chance.
--Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror(1)...
D. H. LAWRENCE: PLEASURE AND DEATH.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... D. H. Lawrence was a virtual textbook embodiment of Freud's theories about the pleasure principle and the death instinct. Focusing on acultural determinism, Freud viewed destructiveness and the pleasure principle as equally fundamental to the...
FRAMES OF FEMALE SUICIDE.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... "Destruction with destruction to destroy." John Milton, Paradise Lost, 10.1000
Suicide is a scandal. It ruptures the social order and defies sovereign power over life and death. In 1670 the French criminal code therefore assimilates...
POSTHUMOUS POSTURING: THE SUBVERSIVE POWER OF DEATH IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S FICTION.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... Roland Barthes' oft-quoted assertion that "narrative is present in every age, in every place, in every society," that it "is simply there like life itself... international, transhistorical, transcultural"(1) has devastating implications when...