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Studies in the Novel articles from March 2003
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 2003
Expanding empires, expanding selves: colonialism, the novel, and Robinson Crusoe.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Featuring a British trader as its hero and set on a distant Caribbean island, Robinson Crusoe cries out for study in its colonial contexts. Indeed, British colonialism informs nearly every feature of Daniel Defoe's first novel. Spatially,...
"Mimic sorrows": masochism and the gendering of pain in Victorian melodrama.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Melodrama, Sally Mitchell says, is "a world of suffering" (45). Its intensified emotions and apparently simple moral scheme of vice and virtue seem to highlight, with special clarity, the pathos of the victim. And yet, melodramatic suffering is...
Conradian reminders in Aldous Huxley's Island: will Farnaby's Moksha-medicine experience and "the essential horror".(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Island is the only utopian novel to climax with a drug-taking. Will Farnaby's ingestion of the moksha-medicine, closely modeled upon Huxley's experiments with mescaline and LSD, (1) fills chapter fifteen. Although Susila MacPhail, Will's guru,...
The primal scene in the public domain: E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Now, what counts in the primal scene is not that one has witnessed it but precisely the contrary, namely that it has taken place in the absence of the subject.
--Andre Green (159)
E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel is steeped in what...
Narrative beginnings in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club: a feminist study (1).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Like virginity, literary introductions are often seen as an awkward embarrassment, an obstacle to be overcome as quickly as possible in order to facilitate vital experiences. On the other hand, "the first time" is a supremely privileged moment,...
Paul Cobley. The American Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... PAUL COBLEY. The American Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2000. 242 pp.
GREG FORTER. Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel. New...
Boon, Kevin Alexander, Ed. At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 204 pp. $17.95.
Kurt Vonnegut's work has for too long been relegated to the second tier of American letters; critics have given him credit for being a clever satirist whose fame in the 1960s...
Cahalan, James M. Edward Abbey: a life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. xvi + 357 pp. $27.95.
Edward Abbey was best known as a passionate polemicist in defense of "wilderness and freedom" (his words). His Desert Solitaire, a wonderful book, to be sure, became the bible...
Gutjahr, Paul C., Ed. Popular American Literature of the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxiii + 1220. $37.50.
Despite radical changes in matters of inclusion in anthologies of American literature over the past twenty years, popular literature does not often appear in their tables of...
Moglen, Helene. The Trauma of Gender: a Feminist Theory of the Novel.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... MOGLEN, HELENE. The Trauma of Gender: a Feminist Theory of the Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 216 pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.
WATKINS, SUSAN. Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice....
Osteen, Mark. American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 299 pp. $42.50 (31.50 [pounds sterling]).
Mark Osteen's American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture is the third book-length study (or sixth, if we include essay...
Tanner, Tony. The American Mystery: Essays on American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Xxiv + 242. $59.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.
Tony Tanner's books about American literature had a powerful influence on me when I was a graduate student and Assistant Professor. I admired Tanner's The...