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Studies in the Novel articles from March 2002
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 2002
Trials and the shaping of identity in Tom Jones.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... I
On 14 November 1743, while residing near Bath after the summer's Western Circuit of the Assizes, Henry Fielding wrote to invite his friend James Harris to visit him at his house at Twerton and attend the Friday ball at Bath. His...
Crossing genre, gender and race in Elizabeth Hamilton's Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... This study was prompted by an incident while researching the politics of British women's writing in the late eighteenth century several years ago. I dutifully arrived at the Birmingham Public library to examine a first edition of Elizabeth...
Scott and empire: the case of Rob Roy.(Sir Walter Scott)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Recent studies of romanticism have begun to set both canonical writings and newly rediscovered texts in the context of the global phenomenon of empire. Katie Trumpener's wide-ranging account of the Romantic novel, for example, and Saree...
History and the inscriptions of torture as purgatorial fire in Andre Brink's fiction.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... On 18 August, 1977, Steve Biko, the Black Consciousness leader, and a friend of his, Peter James, were arrested at a Security Police roadblock near Grahamstown in the Eastern cape province. Taken to Port Elizabeth for detention and...
Making sense of the American 1920s.(Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties)(Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s)(Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Disclosures in American Modernism)
March 22, 2002... Berman, Ronald. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. 177 pp. $29.95 cloth.
Davis, Simone Weil. Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xi +...
Postcolonial criticism in the era of globalization.(Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804)(Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature)(Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean)(Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the Trauma of History: Reading, Narrative, and Postcolonialism)
March 22, 2002... Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. x + 424 pp. $59.95 cloth; $20.95 paper.
Bongie, Chris. Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial...
The Spectacle of Intimacy: a Public Life for the Victorian Family.
March 22, 2002... Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 250 + xii pp. $39.50.
The Spectacle of Intimacy has an intriguing premise that its title aptly summarizes. Concisely put, the book argues that just as the ideal of domestic comfort and...
Modernism, Romance and the Fin De Siecle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880-1914.
March 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 220 pp. $64.95.
Nicholas Daly's Modernism, Romance and the Fin De Siecle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880-1914 reads at times like a scholarly response to F. Scott's Fitzgerald's...
Conrad and Women.
March 22, 2002... Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 252 pp. $70.00.
Conrad and Women is a thoroughly researched and impressive book that deals with the relationships between Joseph Conrad and the women in his life, in his works, and in his reading public. Jones...
Margaret Atwood: Works & Impact.
March 22, 2002... Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. 344 pp. $65.00.
Written for the occasion of Margaret Atwood's sixtieth birthday in November of 1999, Reingard M. Nischik's Margaret Atwood: Works & Impact is a surprisingly disappointing collection of...
The Narrative Forms of Southern Community.
March 22, 2002... Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. 226 pp. $49.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.
"[I]nsofar as it is cohesive, a community will tend to be coercive" (2). With this "first law of community," Scott Romine begins his study of the ways...
Jean Rhys.
March 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 306 pp. $59.95.
Despite the volume of critical work devoted to Jean Rhys, she remains an unplaceable writer. She was a modernist who insisted that she had never read many of her contemporaries, a...