Studies in the Novel articles from June 2001

Studies in the Novel archives from June 2001

"A MELANCHOLY TALE": RHETORIC, FICTION, AND PASSION IN THE COQUETTE.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... In her penultimate letter, Eliza Wharton, the doomed protagonist of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette (1797), pours out her anguish and repentance at having allowed herself to be seduced. Imploring her mother's forgiveness, she sorrowfully...

STEPHEN DEDALUS AND THE POLITICS OF CONFESSION.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... I In the spring of 1907 James Joyce, tutor, writer, and (sometime) bank clerk delivered a series of three public lectures at the Universita Popolare in Trieste. In those lectures, the first two of which survive, the young Joyce expressed...

"THE SALOON MUST GO, AND I WILL TAKE IT WITH ME": AMERICAN PROHIBITION, NATIONALISM, AND EXPATRIATION IN THE SUN ALSO RISES.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Much scholarship on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises has examined the significance of alcohol and drinking in the novel. Many critics have particularly focused on how the alcoholic tendencies of the characters seem to be a result of the...

IMAGES OF RAPE AND BUGGERY: PAUL SCOTT'S VIEW OF THE DUAL EVILS OF EMPIRE.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Over the course of twenty-five years, from 1952 to 1977, Paul Scott published eleven novels that deal with Imperial England. Building on firsthand experience of the Raj while stationed in India during World War II, on subsequent visits to...

EDITH WHARTON AND THE MATTER OF CONTEXTS(1).(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... In A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton described herself as "an omnivorous reader," a fact easily confirmed by her letters, the range of allusion in her fiction, and the recently published catalogue of her library. Wharton's extensive knowledge of...

Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography.(Review)
June 22, 2001... BYRON, GLENNIS and DAVID PUNTER, ED. Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999). x + 243 pp. $55.00. Spectral Readings is yet another new collection of essays on the gothic, once again revealing the...

Post-traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties.(Review)
June 22, 2001... FARRELL, KIRBY. Post-traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties. (Baltimore, MD. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). xv + 420 pp. $49.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. Kirby Farrell takes on the ambitious task of connecting the...

Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel.(Review)
June 22, 2001... FRANKLIN, J. JEFFREY. Serious Play: The Cultural Form of the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). 256 pp. $37.50. Gwendolen Harleth at the gaming table. Lucy Snowe on the stage. Arthur...

The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum.(Review)
June 22, 2001... GANDAL, KEITH. The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). 206 pp. $49.95. I first stumbled upon Keith Gandal's argument about slum ethics while looking...

The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England.(Review)
June 22, 2001... SCHAFFER, TALIA. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia). 288 pp. $55.00 cloth; $19.50 paper. Aestheticism is one of the most slippery terms in...

Imagining the Holocaust.(Review)
June 22, 2001... SCHWARZ, DANIEL R. Imagining the Holocaust (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999). 353 pp. $29.95. In Imagining the Holocaust, Daniel R. Schwarz describes the tapestry of styles, genres, and perspectives that constitute our representation of...