Studies in the Novel articles from June 2002

Studies in the Novel archives from June 2002

Arms and the woman: narrative, imperialism, and Virgilian memoria in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Happy pair! If aught my verse avail, no day shall ever blot you from the memory of time, so long as the house of Aeneas shall dwell on the Capitol's unshaken rock, and the Father of Rome hold sovereign sway. --Virgil, Aeneid...

Delight in the (dis)order of things: Tristram Shandy and the dynamics of genre.(18th-century novel)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... By traditional standards, Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a disorderly production. At the narrative level, Tristram traces his disordered existence to a meticulous father who, abetted by his Lockeian...

A tale of other places: Sophia Lee's The Recess and colonial gothic.(18th-century novel)
June 22, 2002... "Let me not, oh God, since I survived that moment, sink under the remembrance of it!" Thus laments the disappointed bride, recalling the news from Jamaica that so drastically put an end to her marriage before it had even begun. The sordid...

"Hapless dependents": women and animals in Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... In one of my recent graduate classes on the Brontes, the presenter of Agnes Grey observed as an amused aside that the whole moral scheme of the novel seemed to revolve around how animals are treated. The class laughed derisively. I did not,...

The novel as target practice: Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift and the "new malady of the century".(novelist)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... On July 24, 1934, hard at work on what would be his ultimate Russian novel, The Gift (Dar, 1937), Vladimir Nabokov wrote from Berlin to Vladislav Khodasevich in Paris: One should avoid the terrible odor of the emigre milieu (sure, it is...

When race meets religion: Blacks, Jews, and Modernist fictions. (Essay-Review).
June 22, 2002... Emily Budick. Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 252 pp. $59.95. Rachel Blau Duplessis. Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry 1908-1934. New York: Cambridge...

Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo.
June 22, 2002... EBY, CLARE VIRGINIA. Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. 228 pp. $34.95. In Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo, Clare Eby offers an engaging examination of the...

Mark Twain: a Literary Life.
June 22, 2002... EMERSON, EVERETT. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 344 pp. $34.95. Everett Emerson's literary biography of Twain, first of all, is a refreshing "read." Emerson's language clarifies rather...

The Victorians and the Visual Imagination.
June 22, 2002... FLINT, KATE. The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 427 pp. $74.95. Kate Flint's ambitious and wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination, not only...

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction.
June 22, 2002... HAMPSON, ROBERT. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction. New York: Palgrave, 2000. xii + 248 pp. $55.00. For the past several years, the Times Literary Supplement has advertised "The Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize," the...

Rereading Conrad.
June 22, 2002... SCHWARZ, DANIEL R. Rereading Conrad (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001). 194 pp. $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. Rereading Conrad collects Daniel R. Schwarz's invaluable yet heretofore far- flung essays of the past twenty years on...

New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State.
June 22, 2002... SZALAY, MICHAEL. New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. 343 pp. $59.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. One has to admire efforts to identify whether and to what extent...