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Studies in the Novel articles from March 2005
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 2005
Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond, property exchange, and the literary marketplace in the early American republic.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... On the 16th of September 1798, an advertisement for Charles Brockden Brown's novel, Wieland, or the Transformation appeared in Greenleaf's New York Journal & Patriotic Register. According to the advertisement, the novel, available at "H....
Cosmic and psychological redemption in George MacDonald's Lilith.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... George MacDonald, Scottish Victorian author, wrote the first fantasy novels for adults in English. He dedicated himself to literature after failing as a Congregational minister, ultimately producing over fifty books--novels, fairy tales for...
"Felt, not seen not heard:" Quentin Compson, Modernist suicide and Southern history.
March 22, 2005... Death and suicide preoccupied the Modernists--here meaning, roughly, those writers working in Europe between 1918 and 1939. Death without religious value was a concern of philosophers, novelists, and poets after the unprecedented scale of...
Making do: George Orwell's Coming Up for Air.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... In May of 1948, when Coming Up for Air (1939) was about to be reissued, George Orwell confessed to Julian Symons that the book "isn't much. Of course you are right about my own character constantly intruding on that of the narrator. I am not a...
Echo chamber: undertaking The Body Artist.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, published in early 2001, perplexed readers expecting another of his sweeping explorations of politics, violence, and the image world. A decidedly quiet, introverted tale of bereavement and spectral visitation, it...
The kraken in the computer.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... HERSHEL PARKER. Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume I, 1819-1851. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xx + 941 pp.
HERSHEL PARKER. Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume II, 1851-1891. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University...
Abbas, Niran, ed. Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... ABBAS, NIRAN, ed. Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. 256pp. $43.50.
Pynchon's novels continue to demonstrate their myth-like qualities. The many elements in his narratives are...
Kress, Jill M. The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... KRESS, JILL M. The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. New York: Routledge, 2002. xv + 268 pp. $80.00.
The story of consciousness as it emerges in American letters begins most significantly with Ralph...
Latham, Sean. Am I a Snob?: Modernism and the Novel.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... LATHAM, SEAN. Am I a Snob?: Modernism and the Novel. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2003. 272 pp. $19.95.
In its end of the year issue in 2003, Time magazine declared, "culture is increasingly in the hands of nontraditional...
Leader, Zachary, Ed. On Modern British Fiction.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... LEADER, ZACHARY, ED. On Modern British Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 319 pp. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.
On Modern British Fiction, based on an April 2000 conference at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California,...
Mattessich, Stefan. Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... MATTESSICH, STEFAN. Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 291 pp. $64.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.
Stefan Mattessich's deleuzoguattarian study of Thomas...
Milesi, Laurent, Ed. James Joyce and the Difference of Language.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... MILESI, LAURENT, ED. James Joyce and the Difference of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Xiii + 232 pp. $60.00.
James Joyce and the Difference of Language is a curate's egg of a book. Good in parts. In fact, almost all...
Paris, Bernard J. Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... PARIS, BERNARD J. Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, May 2003. xiii + 220 pp. $57.50 (Hardcover); $18.95(Paperback).
In the "Preface" to his Rereading...
Schneider, Lissa. Conrad's Narratives of Difference: Not Exactly for Boys.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... SCHNEIDER, LISSA. Conrad's Narratives of Difference: Not Exactly for Boys. New York: Routledge, 2003. 176 pp. $65.00.
Routledge has a reputation for publishing daring, provocative monographs, which is one reason why so many readers look for...
Trombley, Laura E. Skandera and Michael J. Kiskis. Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... TROMBLEY, LAURA E. SKANDERA and MICHAEL J. KISKIS. Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. 252 pp. $34.95.
Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship, by...