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Studies in the Novel articles from March 1999
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 1999
INORDINATE DESIRE: SCHOOLING THE SENSES IN ELIZABETH INCHBALD'S A SIMPLE STORY.
March 22, 1999... At mid-eighteenth century, sensibility referred to an individual's "capacity for refined emotion" and "delicate sensitiveness of taste." Considered an organic sensitivity dependent on the nervous system, sensibility revealed itself by a...
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE REPROBATE'S CONSCIENCE.
March 22, 1999...
"O Conscience! into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged!"
(John Milton, Paradise Lost, 10.842-44)
The status of Frankenstein as one of the most...
TERRIBLE DREAMS OF CREATIVE POWER: THE QUESTION OF NO. 44.
March 22, 1999... Enigmatic characters fill the pages of Mark Twain's later fiction. The heteroglossic voice of Hank Morgan and the question of Pudd'nhead Wilson's life in Dawson's Landing both leave the reader with an unsettling sense of the characters'...
REALISM AND MODERNISTS' BAD REPUTATION.
March 22, 1999... One of the principles guiding the formation of the high modernist canon was T. S. Eliot's definition of the "mythical method" as "a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and...
QUEERING CLASS: LESLIE FEINBERG'S STONE BUTCH BLUES.
March 22, 1999...
At the violet hour when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi throbbing waiting
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can...
THE LESSON OF THE MASTER: THE NEW YORK EDITION, JAMES STUDIES, AND CONTEMPORARY TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP(1).(Review)
March 22, 1999... Although I am not a Jamesian, I could not resist Studies in the Novel's invitation to review this marvelous collection of mostly new essays on the Master's New York Edition (hereafter Edition) that David McWhirter has assembled. Because James...
Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates.(Review)
March 22, 1999... DALY, BRENDA. Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1996). 278 pp. $37.50.
Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates and Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol...
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates.(Review)
March 22, 1999... JOHNSON, GREG. Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates (New York: Dutton, 1998). 475 pp. $34.95.
Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates and Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates are both serious...
Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush.(Review)
March 22, 1999... O'FARRELL, MARY ANN. Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997). 182 pp. $49.95 cloth. $16.95 paper.
Telling Complexions is a study of the blush in nineteenth-century...
Dickens and New Historicism.(Review)
March 22, 1999... PALMER, WILLIAM J. Dickens and New Historicism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). 190 pp. $39.95.
This book begins by turning at once to young Nicholas Nickleby's exposure of the piratical adapter of novels and plays for the Crummles'...
Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation.(Review)
March 22, 1999... SAMUELS, SHIRLEY. Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). 198 pp. $39.95.
This important study engages the relational dialectics of...
Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality.(Review)
March 22, 1999... SCHMITT, CANNON. Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). xii + 219 pp. $ 34.50.
Until recently, reading Gothic fiction "seriously" meant reading it...
The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies.(Review)
March 22, 1999... STEPHENS, ROBERT O. The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies (Louisiana State University Press, 1995). 233 pp. $30.00.
Robert O. Stephens argues in The Family Saga in the South that the context of southern family novels...
American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract.(Review)
March 22, 1999... THOMAS, BROOK. American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). 372 pp. $35.00.
Many law and literature studies avoid the uncertain and largely unmapped terrain of the...