Studies in the Novel articles from June 2003

Studies in the Novel archives from June 2003

Introduction.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)
June 22, 2003... From 1854 until the 1890s, most of William Gilmore Simms's fiction was in print in a twenty-volume edition by Redfield, reprinted by Widdleton, and then in a series of reprints called "Border Romances" by A. C. Armstrong, Belford-Clarke,...

"Foolish talk 'bout freedom": Simms's vision of America in the Yemassee.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Comparisons are frequently made among Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1820), James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1825), and William Gilmore Simms's The Yemassee (1835). (1) These three works suggest the movement of the romance from...

Simms and the American apocalypse: 'Woodcraft' and 'The Cassique of Kiawah' chart a course.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)
June 22, 2003... Doom! Doom! Doom! Something seems to whisper it in the very dark trees of America. Doom! --D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (173) She is a rare abolitionist among antebellum Southern women writers. EDEN Southworth...

Simms's bosky gothic, the "region of doubt and shadow".(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms's works)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Overall, Simms's Gothicism has too long remained a "region of doubt and shadow," to cite the phrase from Helen Halsey, usually neglected or deplored. Those who have addressed this branch of his work concentrate on his short stories, mainly...

Jilted southern women: the defiance of Margaret Cooper and her twentieth-century successors.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... When Jereboam O. Beauchamp killed Colonel Solomon Sharp in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1825 for dishonoring his wife when she was younger, the incident, known as the Kentucky Tragedy, achieved international fame. A ready-made drama containing the...

Narrating social theory: William Gilmore Simms's Woodcraft.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Many critics have, for decades, seen Simms as stymied by his culture, so that they interpret the quality of the author's literature as having declined as his sectional partisanship grew. The foremost Southern literary critics of the twentieth...

Dory's bible, acts, and the devil at our elbow.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... [In the South,] an older religious heritage and a sense of obligation to tradition have thwarted both the ethics of utility and the idea of economic determinism. -- Richard Weaver In Chapter 34 of Woodcraft (1854), at the physical...

The battered woman syndrome in Simms's fiction.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Each year over fourteen million American women are beaten or abused by spouses or boyfriends. (1) More than a quarter of couples report at least one violent incident, and some scholars believe the occurrence actually may be as high as fifty...

"The fall of the house of usher," Simms's Castle Dismal, and The Scarlet Letter: literary interconnections.
June 22, 2003... Any thorough literary history can provide the known interactions between Edgar Allan Poe, William Gilmore Simms, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, all nationally acclaimed authors who published short story collections during the 1840s. Despite the...

Simms's Vasconselos: a multicultural reading.(literary criticism of William Gilmore Simms' works)(Vasconselos, A Romance of the New World )(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... William Gilmore Simms's Vasconselos, A Romance of the New World (1853) provides a surprisingly multicultural perspective on the colonial process taking place in sixteenth-century Cuba and Florida. While ambiguous regarding his general treatment...

Avery, Evelyn, Ed. The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 224 pp. $62.50. Academic interest in the writer Bernard Malamud remains steady across the turn of the (new) century. Five years after Alan Cheuse's and Nicholas Delbanco's compilation of...

Barrish, Phillip. American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 213 pp. $54.95. Judging from its title, one might expect Phillip Barrish's book to survey a century of literary criticism devoted to American realistic fiction, perhaps analyzing this wide body...

Boswell, Marshall. John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. 253 pp. $34.95. Before reading Marshall Boswell's superb study of Updike's four-volume masterpiece, Rabbit Angstrom, I fancied myself the "ideal reader" imagined in Beck: A Book, sensitive to...

Conner, Marc C., ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. 150 pp. $18.00. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison brings together seven new essays and one reprint on the aesthetics at work in Morrison's novels and in her Nobel Prize speech. Morrison has...

Cowart, David. Don DeLillo: the Physics of Language.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2002. xiv + 257 pp. $45.00. DUVALL, JOHN. Don DeLillo's Underworld. A Reader's Guide. New York: Continuum, 2002. 96 pp. $9.95. In Don DeLillo's 1991 novel, Mao II, a character--a dark...

Dames, Nicholas. Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 298 pp. $49.95. Amnesiac Selves is an insightful book, and its insights are important. Nicholas Dames develops in this helpful volume a revisionist view of memory in the early Victorian novel, a view...

Griffin, Susan M., ed. Henry James Goes to the Movies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002. 386 pp. $27.50. Henry James's works have served as the basis or a number of critically acclaimed films, including Frank Lloyd's Berkeley Square (1933, based on The Sense of the...

Quirk, Tom. Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the Literary Imagination.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ix + 234 pp. $34.95 Tom Quirk's chief complaint in Nothing Abstract is that postmodern theories of intertextuality have unfortunately encouraged a disturbing new form of interpretive chaos As...