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Studies in the Novel articles from March 2004
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 2004
The modern tragedy of Blithedale.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. -Vladimir Nabokov Lectures on Literature (3)
Few books seem better designed to test the accuracy of Nabokov's assertion than does that most modern and elusive of Nathaniel...
"Reading coolly" in John Marchmont's Legacy: reconsidering M. E. Braddon's legacy.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In her 1863 novel John Marchmont's Legacy, Mary Elizabeth Braddon represents a humorously reflexive scene. Two young women, both avid readers, sit at a breakfast table with the hero Edward Arundel. Belinda Lawford, who is secretly in love with...
The genealogy of the literary Bildungsroman: Edward Bulwerlytton and W. M. Thackeray.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In many critical accounts of the Bildungsroman, and especially those that consider its genealogy within late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary history, questions of time are of the essence. From Mikhail Bakhtin's exposition of the...
"All she knew was, that she wished to live": late-Victorian realism, liberal-feminist ideals, and George Gissing's In the Year of the Jubilee.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Toward the beginning of In the Year of the Jubilee, George Gissing's 1894 novel about a young, middle-class woman who struggles with her identity in a non-traditional marriage, the narrator draws for his readers a picture of the heroine, Nancy...
Iris Murdoch and the case of "too many men".(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In The Flight from the Enchanter (1956), Rosa Keep makes several efforts to save the Artemis, a women's periodical founded by her dead mother and Mrs. Camilla Wingfield. One such effort involves visiting Mrs. Wingfield, an eighty-three year old...
Falling in public: Larsen's Passing, McCarthy's The Group, and Baldwin's Another Country.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... There remained only the window, the large Bloomsbury-lodging house window, the tiresome, the troublesome, and rather melodramatic business of opening the window and throwing himself out. It was their idea of tragedy, not his.
--Virginia...
"Gazing on the Gothic": where is the field now?(Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation)(The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarrissa to Rescue 911)(A Companion to the Gothic)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... MICHAEL GAMER. Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $60.00 cloth.
LAURA HINTON. The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarrissa to Rescue...
Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead: a Writer on Writing.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... ATWOOD, MARGARET. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 219 pp. $18.00.
Margaret Atwood's most recent book, Negotiating with the Dead, comprises six essays based on the Empson lectures she...
Bledsoe, Erik, Ed. Perspectives on Harry Crews.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... BLEDSOE, Erik, Ed. Perspectives on Harry Crews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 256 pp. $46.00 cloth; $18.00 paper.
For decades now, novelist Harry Crews has enjoyed a strong, cult-like readership attracted to his gritty...
Greaney, Michael. Conrad, Language, and Narrative.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... GREANEY, MICHAEL. Conrad, Language, and Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 194 pp. $55.00.
In Conrad, Language, and Narrative Michael Greaney provides a remarkably supple account of Conrad's famously protean ideas on...
Izzo, Donatella. Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... IZZO, DONATELLA. Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 304 pp. $60.00.
In this thoughtful and incisive analysis, Donatella Izzo explores and elucidates...
Knowles, Sebastian D. G. The Dublin Helix: the Life and Language in Joyce's Ulysses.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... KNOWLES, Sebastian D. G. The Dublin Helix: The Life and Language in Joyce's Ulysses. University Press of Florida, 2001. 177 pages. $55.00.
Nora Barnacle remembered being kept awake at night by Joyce's writing habits. "I go to bed," she was...
Morris, Daniel. Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... MORRIS, DANIEL. Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. 190 pages. $34.95.
The dynamic interaction of modernist literature with the visual arts is widely...
Smiley, Jane. Charles Dickens.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... SMILEY, JANE. Charles Dickens. New York: Viking Press, 2002. 224 pp. $19.95.
George Orwell argued that what distinguishes Dickens's writing is the "unnecessary detail"; if so, Jane Smiley has written a very un-Dickensian biography. At only...
Squires, Michael and Lynn K. Talbot. Living at the Edge: a Biography of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... SQUIRES, MICHAEL and LYNN K. TALBOT. Living at the Edge: A Biography of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 501 + xv pp. $34.95.
The publication of this book testifies to the unabated...