Studies in the Novel articles from March 2001

Studies in the Novel archives from March 2001

REPRESENTING SCOTLAND IN RODERICK RANDOM AND HUMPHRY CLINKER: SMOLLETT'S DEVELOPMENT AS A NOVELIST.(Tobias Smollett)
March 22, 2001... It is a critical commonplace that Tobias Smollett's last novel, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), marks a departure from his earlier novels. In The Later Career of Tobias Smollett, still the most careful attempt to account for the...

BLACK AND WHITE AND READ ALL OVER: PERFORMATIVE TEXTUALITY IN BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA.
March 22, 2001... Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) is all about control--or so it seems. The novel's focus on power (who has it, who wants it, who gets it, and who gets to keep it) is not surprising in a late-Victorian text that problematizes issues of gender,...

"OUR REPRESENTATIVE, OUR SPOKESMAN": MODERNITY, PROFESSIONALISM, AND REPRESENTATION IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S BETWEEN THE ACTS.
March 22, 2001... In Between the Acts Virginia Woolf confronts many of the same binaries that had already preoccupied her in Three Guineas; such binaries as those between the public and the private, the professional and the domestic, the local and the global....

VERIBLY A PURPLE COW: THE WHOLE FAMILY AND THE COLLABORATIVE SEARCH FOR COHERENCE.
March 22, 2001... We have all, unconsciously become a "family." We have our general loyalty and particular preferences. We have said we were a purple cow and the result is that we veribly "be" one... I await the developments with an interest bordering on...

LIVING WITHOUT A LIFE: THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN-HUMANIST SYNTHESIS IN MOLLOY.
March 22, 2001... On the penultimate page of Molloy, after a circular journey has reduced to "wretched trifles" (p. 161) all the cherished certainties with which he began, Moran repudiates identification through species or "the human race, in its slow ascension...

RAYMOND CHANDLER AND THE ART OF THE HOLLYWOOD NOVEL: INDIVIDUALISM AND POPULISM IN THE LITTLE SISTER.
March 22, 2001... The first Hollywood novel of any enduring appeal was Harry Leon Wilson's Merton of the Movies (1922), which was published just as the studio and star systems were being put into place.(1) The novel tells the story of Merton Gill, a gullible...

Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit.(Review)
March 22, 2001... BOWEN, JOHN. Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). 232 pp. $70.00. Several recent studies have reconsidered Dickens in relation to the changing England, especially the London, of his time. Andrew...

Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.(Review)
March 22, 2001... GILLOOLY, EILEEN. Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999). 289 pp. $20.00. Scholars of humor and the comic face at least three major obstacles at the...

"I'm Telling You Stories": Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading.(Review)
March 22, 2001... GRICE, HELENA, AND TIM WOODS, eds. "I'm Telling You Stories": Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading (Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998). 136 pp. $33.00. One of the few available book-length studies of Jeanette Winterson's texts, "I'm...

Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination.(Review)
March 22, 2001... KREMER, S. LILLIAN. Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999). 278 pp. $45.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. S. Lillian Kremer's remarkable study, Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and...

Solitude Versus Solidarity in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Political and Epistemological Implications of Narrative Innovation.(Review)
March 22, 2001... LORD, URSULA. Solitude Versus Solidarity in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Political and Epistemological Implications of Narrative Innovation (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998). 358 pp. $55.00. As its title...