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Studies in the Novel articles from March 1997
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 March 1997
The worthlessness of Duncan Heyward: a Waverley hero in America. (character in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans")
March 22, 1997... "Your notions are those of a gentleman," allows the Scottish-born Colonel Munro of his young southern subordinate, Major Duncan Heyward, "and well enough in their place,"(1) but the American wilderness is clearly not the place for them, a...
The two faces of Lucy Snowe: a study in deviant behavior. (character in Charlotte Bronte's "Villette")
March 22, 1997... Who are you, Miss Snowe?. . .
Who am I indeed? Perhaps a
personage in disguise.(1)
Lucy's flip answer doesn't begin to untangle the mystery of who is Lucy Snowe. Is Villete a quaint nineteenth-century Gothic novel of lost love...
"It's your father's way": the father-daughter narrative and female development in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'Pembroke.'
March 22, 1997... We have trained and bred one kind of qualities into one-half the species, and another kind into the other half. And then we wonder at the contradictions of human nature.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economies (1898)
I...
Lambert Strether and negativity of experience. (character in Henry James's "The Ambassadors")
March 22, 1997... "And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances,
And so he plays his part."(1)
The conclusion of James's outline for...
Fantasy as necessity: the role of the biographer in 'The Moon and Sixpence.' (novel by W. Somerset Maugham)
March 22, 1997... Sheldon W. Liebman argues in a recent essay that "the central character in The Moon and Sixpence is not Strickland, but the Narrator."(1) Liebman recognizes the inadequacy of Maugham's novel (1919) as a "biography" of its ostensible subject,...
A "hermaphrodite sort of deity": sexuality, gender, and gender blending in Thomas Pynchon's 'V.'
March 22, 1997... Published ten years after the second of the Kinsey Reports (1948, 1953). the same year as Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, two years before the founding of NOW, and almost a decade before the Gay Liberation Movement, Thomas Pynchon's V....
A matter of disguise: locating the self in Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep' and 'The Long Goodbye.'
March 22, 1997... Ihab Hassan's 1961 book, Radical Innocence(1) attempts to describe the changing relations between the hero of American fiction and the world he inhabits.(2) Hassan interests himself, in the early part of his book, with an examination of the...
Ethical narrative in Dickens and Thackeray. (Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray)
March 22, 1997... Comparing Dickens to Thackeray in the context of these books brought me ultimately to the question of why we read each author. While both shared a thorough understanding of the conventions of fiction and its rhetorical power, they exploited...
Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels.
March 22, 1997... CAMPBELL, JILL. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995). xii + 324 pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.
Jill Campbell begins her book by questioning the "almost biological status" of the old Richardson-Fielding opposition in critical...
Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-Century British Novels and Paintings.
March 22, 1997... COHEN, MICHAEL. (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1995). 187 pp. $60.00.
The 1980s and early 1990s were a productive era in nineteenth-century British--and especially Victorian--art history. Over the course of these years a...
The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design.
March 22, 1997... KLEIN, SCOTT W. Monsters of Nature and Design (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 260 pp. $49.95.
In this dense, subtly argued study of the conflicts in the representational philosophies and procedures of two key Modernists, Scott...
Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self.
March 22, 1997... MICHELSON, BRUCE. Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995). 269 pp. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.
With the publication of Bruce Michelson's new book, Twain studies come...
Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress.
March 22, 1997... MILES, ROBERT. Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress (New York: Manchester University Press, 1995). vi + 201 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
The resurgence of interest in gothic novels and romances over the last ten years has created a body...
This Rough Magic: Technology in Latin American Fiction.
March 22, 1997... ROBINETT, JANE. (New York: Peter Lang, 1994 [Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Science, Technology, and Culture; vol. 13, Lance Schacterle and Francis C. Lutz, eds.]). 285 pp. $53.95.
In a series of recent articles and in the journal...
The Libertine's Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel.
March 22, 1997... SAINT-AMAND, PIERRE. translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage (Hanover and London: Brown University Press, 1994). 166 pp. $30.00.
In this revised and elegant translation from the French, with a new foreword by Rene Girard, Pierre Saint-Amand...
Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers.
March 22, 1997... SUTHERLAND, JOHN. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995). 191 pp. $39.95.
In the last few years John Sutherland has, by dint of an extraordinary range of intelligent and well-written publications, established his credentials as the foremost...