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Studies in the Novel articles from March 2006
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 2006
"Household forms and ceremonies": narrating routines in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.(Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford)
March 22, 2006... Critics discussing Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (1851-53) frequently situate it in relation to other genres of writing. In fact, owing in part to Cranford's original composition, a series of sketches published in rather irregular increments in...
The riches of redundancy: Our Mutual Friend.
March 22, 2006... Our Mutual Friend has not pleased many otherwise satisfied readers of Dickens's fiction. For his contemporaries and such acute assessors of fiction as Henry James, the novel seemed to lack structure, among other faults. More recently, critics...
The empire of the future: imperialism and modernism in H. G. Wells.
March 22, 2006... H. G. Wells's scientific romances of the 1890s are remarkably innovative in form and subject matter, and the first in the series, The Time Machine, may be the most original of them all. It virtually inaugurated the genre of science fiction, and...
Cather's "Midi Romanesque": missionaries, myth, and the grail in Death Comes for the Archbishop.(Jean Marie Latour's novel)
March 22, 2006... "'Our own Midi Romanesque is the right style for this country.'" Death Comes for the Archbishop (253)
Father Jean Marie Latour's clear vision of his Midi Romanesque cathedral for Santa Fe surprises his vicar, Father Joseph Vaillant, who...
"Lita is--jazz": the Harlem renaissance, cabaret culture, and racial amalgamation in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep.(Edith Wharton's "Twilight Sleep")
March 22, 2006... Edith Wharton's 1927 novel Twilight Sleep has consistently suffered from a lack of critical scrutiny because, perhaps, when it is paired with better-known novels like The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, or The Custom of the Country, it...
The Quiet American and the novel.
March 22, 2006... Graham Greene's Vietnam novel The Quiet American (1955) tells the story of a jaded English reporter, an idealistic American diplomat, and an inscrutable Vietnamese dancer who likes to go to the cinema. Or, to put it differently, it is about a...
Jane Austen Criticism, 1951-2004.(Jane Austen and the Theatre)(Jane Austen on Screen)(Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading and Speech in the Age of Austen)(Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... GAY, Penny. Jane Austen and the Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 366 pp. $50.00.
MACDONALD, Gina and Andrew, eds. Jane Austen on Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 296 pp. $70.00 cloth; $25.00 paper....
Black, Michael. Lawrence's England: The Major Fiction, 1913-20.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... BLACK, MICHAEL. Lawrence's England: The Major Fiction, 1913-20. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001. vii+245 pp. $65.00.
The title Lawrence's England may rightly remind a reader of Lawrence's lines in Lady Chatterley's Lover...
Conrad, Joseph. Notes on Life and Letters.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... CONRAD, JOSEPH. Notes on Life and Letters. Ed. J. H. Stape, with the assistance of Andrew Busza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 500 pages. $120.00.
In the Preface to this volume, first published in 1921, Conrad apologized for...
Cushman, Keith and Earl G. Ingersoll, Eds. D. H. Lawrence: New Worlds.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... CUSHMAN, KEITH and EARL G. INGERSOLL, Eds. D. H. Lawrence: New Worlds. Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. 281 pp. $52.50.
This lively collection of essays takes its title from the Seventh International D. H. Lawrence...
Davis, Thadious. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... DAVIS, THADIOUS. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. xii + 340 pp. $22.95.
Thadious Davis excavates a "micro-environment for studying the relationships among...
Genet, Jean. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... GENET, JEAN. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews. Albert Dichy, Werner Hamacher, David E. Wellbery, eds. Jeff Fort, trans. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 384 pp. $24.95.
First Genet was a poet. Then he was a novelist. After...
Karem, Jeff. The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... KAREM, JEFF. The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. 256 pp. $55.00.
Jeff Karem, in The Romance of Authenticity, explores how historical...
Peretz, Eyal. Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick.'.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... PERETZ, EYAL. Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick.' Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. 176pp. $40.00.
Somewhere between literature and philosophy is comparative literature, negotiating a very...