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Studies in the Novel articles from June 2005
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 2005
Cosmopolitan complexities in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui.
June 22, 2005... Recent criticism (1) has noted the importance of cosmopolitanism in the works of the Anglo-Irish writer, Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). While she is frequently discussed in terms of nationalism and colonialism, (2) Cliona O Gallchoir has declared...
Conjecturing possibilities: reading and misreading texts in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
June 22, 2005... Precisely halfway through the novel (almost to the very letter by a computer count of words), Elizabeth Bennet, the central character of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is the recipient of a letter. She is forced to read it twice. The letter...
Collins's Moonstone: the Victorian novel as sacrifice, theft, gift and debt.
June 22, 2005... In November 1869, Wilkie Collins turned his wit to a request by Dutch magazine publishers for permission to print a translation of his forthcoming novel. The publishers did not propose entering into commercial negotiations with Collins;...
"There's more honor": reinterpreting Tom and the evasion in Huckleberry Finn.
June 22, 2005... When Leo Marx, in 1953, published his landmark essay, "Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn," he could not have anticipated the avalanche of scholarly reactions to his critique that would proliferate during the next fifty years and...
Language, violence, and irrevocability: speech acts in "Tess of the d 'Urbervilles."
June 22, 2005... Like most works of literature, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles consists of speech acts, or at least contains examples of speech acts such as whatever the characters do by means of words. At the same time, among Hardy's other novels, it...
The Victorian novel in the material world.(ESSAY-REVIEW)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Richard A. Kaye. The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. 272 pp. $32.00.
Anna Krugovoy Silver. Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body. Cambridge...
Abbott, Megan E. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... ABBOTT, MEGAN E. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 246pp. $59.95.
Megan Abbott's The Street Was Mine examines the "tough guy" heroes in the works of Raymond...
Ardis, Ann L. and Leslie W. Lewis, eds. Women's Experience of Modernity 1875-1945.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... ARDIS, ANN L. AND LESLIE W. LEWIS, EDS. Women's Experience of Modernity 1875-1945. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 312 pp. $22.00 paper.
Modernity, as the title suggests, takes precedence over modernism in this...
Davies, Laurence, Frederick R. Karl, and Owen Knowles, eds. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: 1917-1919, vol. 6.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... DAVIES, LAURENCE, FREDERICK R. KARL, AND OWEN KNOWLES, EDS. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 6: 1917-1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 570 pp. $110.00.
What good are a writer's letters? What critical purpose...
Esteve, Mary. The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... ESTEVE, MARY. The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 262 pp. $55.00 cloth.
In this ambitious and erudite study, Mary Esteve successfully contends that any...
Gaitet, Pascale. Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... GAITET, PASCALE. Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 171 pp. $38.50 (hardcover).
Not much has happened in Genet scholarship for over a decade, ever since Edmund White...
Glen, Heather. Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... GLEN, HEATHER. Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 314 pp. $80.00.
Only in recent decades have Bronte studies emerged from the biographical-based insistence that these were at best provincial...
Stanton, Judith Phillips. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... STANTON, JUDITH PHILLIPS. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xlvii + 864 pp. $59.95 cloth.
Many readers of Charlotte Smith admire her novels and her poetry in spite of the author's...