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Studies in the Novel articles from June 2007
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 2007
An evolutionary approach to Jane Austen: prehistoric preferences in Pride and Prejudice.
June 22, 2007... While not all scholars of the period agree, some have observed a paradigm shift regarding marriage and gender during the eighteenth century. Thomas Laqueur cogently argues that the two-sex model came into being during this time period, and...
"Have at the masters"?: literary allusions in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton.
June 22, 2007... When Elizabeth Gaskell published her first novel, Mary Barton, in 1848, she gave it the subtitle, A Tale of Manchester Life, and announced in her preface that the book's aim was to "give some utterance to the agony which from time to time...
Hardy's ur-priestess and the phases of a novel.(Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented)
June 22, 2007... In the Preface to the Fifth Edition of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy responds to the critics of the novel by calling some of them "modern 'Hammers of Heretics'" who discourage free thought because they "may have causes to advance,...
Ford and the costs of Englishness: "good soldiering" as performative practice.(Ford Madox Ford's novel The Good Soldier)
June 22, 2007... If we take his word for it, Ford Madox Ford never wanted to call his most famous novel The Good Soldier, selecting the title only "in hasty irony" (Good Soldier 5) when his initial choice, The Saddest Story, was vetoed. The title's origin as...
Virginia Woolf's "Wild England": George Borrow, autoethnography, and Between the Acts.(Virginia Woolf's novel Between the Acts and George Borrow's Lavengro)
June 22, 2007... George Borrow's domestically focused Lavengro (1851) influenced Virginia Woolf's last novel Between the Acts (1941) in its capacity as an autoethnographic, autocritical portrait of England. Faced in the late 1930s with a fascist nationalism...
The alchemy of the self in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve.
June 22, 2007... The deconstruction of the myths of gender pervades Angela Carter's most iconoclastic novel, The Passion of New Eve (1977). The narrative explores primarily "the social creation of femininity" and targets the culturally sacred discourses that...
Twenty-first century Conrad studies.(The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... COLLITS, TERRY. Posteolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire. New York: Routledge, 2005. 208 pp. $97.00.
CURRELI, MARIO. The Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2005. 315 pp. $35.00.
KAPLAN, CAROLA, PETER LANCELOT MALLIOS,...
Armstrong, Paul B. Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... ARMSTRONG, PAUL B. Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 218 pp. $39.95.
Paul Armstrong begins his defense and illustration of the political usefulness of...
Brewer, David A. The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... BREWER, DAVID A. The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 288 pp. $59.95.
The Afterlife of Character is an expertly argued and ultimately convincing scholarly manuscript remarkable in both...
DeBellis, Jack, Ed. John Updike: The Critical Responses to the "Rabbit" Saga.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... DeBELLIS, JACK, ED. John Updike: The Critical Responses to the "Rabbit" Saga. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 298 pp. $97.95.
This collection of essays, edited by Jack De Bellis, is devoted to the Rabbit novels--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit...
Haslam, Sara, Ed. Ford Madox Ford and the City.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... HASLAM, SARA, ED. Ford Madox Ford and the City. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 249 pp. $63.00.
Ford Madox Ford and the City is the fourth volume of the International Ford Madox Ford Studies series, published in association with the Ford Madox...
Jackson, Robert Louis. A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... JACKSON, ROBERT LOUIS. A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004. 261 pp. $79.95.
The essays in this volume originated as contributions to the Yale Conference in Slavic Literatures and Cultures...
Kern, Stephen. A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... KERN, STEPHEN. A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 437 pp. $29.95.
At first glance Stephen Kern's title, A Cultural History of Causality, seems...
Malak, Amin. Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... MALAK, AMIN. Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. 181 pp. $78.50 cloth; $24.95 paper.
Amin Malak's Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English offers a series of engagements...
McDermott, John V. Flannery O'Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant: Two of a Kind.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... MCDERMOTT, JOHN V. Flannery O'Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant: Two of a Kind. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005. 91 pp. $20.00.
In a 1959 review of D. T. Suzuki's Zen and Japanese Culture, Flannery O'Connor observed that...
Morrison, Ray. A Smile in His Mind's Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... MORRISON, RAY. A Smile in His Mind's Eye: A Study of the Early Works of Lawrence Durrell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 529 pp. $85.00
Ray Morrison's purpose in writing A Smile in His Mind's Eye: A Study of the Early Works of...
Stout, Janis P. Ed. Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... STOUT, JANIS P. Ed. Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. 256 pp. $37.50.
The essays in this collection address in several ways a paradox in Willa...
Su, John J. Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... SU, JOHN J. Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 226 pp. $75.00.
Jonah Raskin's The Mythology of Imperialism (1971) and Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993) are seminal, if...