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Studies in the Novel articles from March 1998
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 1998
Dumbiedikes, Ratcliffe, and a surprising Jeanie Deans: comic alternatives in 'The Heart of Mid-lothian.'
March 22, 1998... As Hardie informs Peter Pattieson in The Heart of Mid-lothian's opening chapter, the Tolbooth prison provides compelling evidence of "guilt, crime, imposture, folly, [and] unheard-of misfortunes."(1) Hardie's comment apparently confirms...
"The sound of the scythe being whetted": gender, genre, and realism in 'Adam Bede.'
March 22, 1998... Critical analyses of Adam Bede that take genre as their focus tend to treat the novel as essentially monogeneric: the realistic technique revises or modernizes whatever older generic form the critic has identified as the novel's structural or...
Alchemy and appreciation: the spoiling of the real in Henry James's 'The Spoils of Poynton.'
March 22, 1998... The secure distance of eleven years following Henry James's death permitted Arnold Bennett to publish his "A Candid Opinion on Henry James" (1927), in which he confesses to finding James's novels virtually unreadable. For an author like...
"They always leave us": 'Lord Jim,' colonialist discourse, and Conrad's magic naturalism. (Joseph Conrad)
March 22, 1998... Lord Jim is full of thumbnail biographies that give the reader a pleasant sense of overcrowding, as though the book might open out in some new direction at any moment to follow the lives and tribulations of some new set of characters. Captain...
Walking away from the impossible thing: identity and denial in 'Sister Carrie.'
March 22, 1998... In Shakespearean Tragedy, A.C. Bradley illustrates the interdependence of character and circumstance in the plays he studies. Imagine, he says, the effect of exchanging the title characters of Hamlet and Othello. In neither instance would the...
Mary Austin's feminism: a reassessment.
March 22, 1998... There rose up like a wisp of fog between me and the glittering promise of
the future, a kind of horror of the destiny of women.
--Mary Austin, A Woman of Genius
Mary Hunter Austin, best known for her book of essays The Land...
Virtue's Faults: Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century British and French Women's Fiction.
March 22, 1998... ALLISTON, APRIL. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996). xiv + 318 pp. $39.50.
By establishing "correspondences" between canonized and unknown novels written by women, April Alliston's book is an important and original contribution...
Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working-Class Novel, 1890-1945.
March 22, 1998... FOX, PAMELA. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994). 241 pp. $45.95 cloth; $15.95 paper.
The cultural shame betrayed by the working-class novelists surveyed in Pamela Fox's Class Fictions leads me to a simple conclusion: literature is a...
Mark Twain and William James: Crafting a Free Self.
March 22, 1998... HORN, JASON GARY. (Columbia, Missouri: Unix of Missouri Press, 1996). 189 pp. $34.95.
Says Jason Gary Horn, early in this study of William James's presence in Mark Twain's thinking: "On one level, I am arguing a case for direct influence"...
Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner.
March 22, 1998... POLK, NOEL. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996). 288 pp. $37.50.
During the last two decades Noel Polk has built an international reputation as the leading editor of William Faulkner's works. He has brought out three volumes in...
The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, and Democracy in American Literature.
March 22, 1998... PORTELLI, ALESSANDRO. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1994). 415 + xxi pp. $35.00.
Portelli's attempt in this richly packed and widely ranging book is "to interpret the foundations of American culture through literature and to...
New Essays on Samuel Richardson.
March 22, 1998... RIVERO, ALBERT J., (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996). 232 pp. $39.50.
Hostile readers, confusing Samuel Richardson with his heroines, have sometimes complained, with Samuel Johnson, that there is always something Richardson prefers to...
Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration.
March 22, 1998... URGO, JOSEPH R. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1995). 209pp. $39.95 cloth: $14.95 paper.
Every change-of-address card filed with the United States Postal Service is
a gesture of empire, an expression of migratory consciousness,...