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Studies in the Novel articles from March 2007
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 2007
Novelty in novels: a look at what's new in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.
March 22, 2007... "The word Novel in all languages signifies something new...."--Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance (1785) 110
When, and how, was the novel novel? A new version of this old question has motivated, and complicated, recent discussions about...
Joseph Andrews and the control of the poor.
March 22, 2007... Joseph Andrews (1742) is about the absence of charity in eighteenth-century England. Throughout the novel, Joseph is continually denied it--by characters in a stage coach who will not allow him to enter, by innkeepers like Mrs. Tow-wouse who do...
More than a gravestone: Caleb Williams, Udolpho, and the politics of the gothic.
March 22, 2007... I am interested in a political art...an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings. An art--and a politics--in which optimism is kept in check and nihilism at bay.
--William Kentridge (1992)
William...
Difference and repetition in Austen's Persuasion.
March 22, 2007... In several respects, Persuasion represents a fantasy that retains its appeal. Apart from the attractive qualities of the intelligent, older heroine, the novel fulfills the wish that a missed chance might return; that an irrevocable decision...
"Worthy ambition": religion and domesticity in The Daisy Chain.
March 22, 2007... Charlotte Yonge's two-novel sequence The Daisy Chain and The Trial, which chronicles the fortunes of the large family of May siblings, is one of the most typical and fully realized examples of nineteenth-century domestic realism. Yonge is as...
Modernism and the contours of violence in D. H. Lawrence's fiction.
March 22, 2007... Today's defining phenomenon is the act of terrorism. In Amman, Jordan, the triple hotel bombings in 2005 are a single example. The world today faces unprovoked attacks, random shootings, suicide missions, and genocide. Such acts, though an...
Tales of Passion.
March 22, 2007... Robert Hampson and Tony Davenport, Eds. Ford Madox Ford: A Reappraisal. International Ford Madox Ford Studies 1. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002. x + 191pp. $46.00.
Joseph Wiesenfarth, Ed. History and Representation in Ford Madox...
Davis, Todd F. Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism.
March 22, 2007... DAVIS, TODD F. Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006). 166 pp. $55.00.
To explain the disparity between Kurt Vonnegut's popularity and...
Fantina, Richard. Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism.
March 22, 2007... FANTINA, RICHARD. Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism (New York, NY: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005). 206 pp. $65.00.
Richard Fantina's book is the latest offering in what has become something of a cottage industry: reassessments of Ernest...
Gaylin, Ann. Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... GAYLIN, ANN. Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 241pp. $55.00.
In Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust, Ann Gaylin examines the ways scenes of eavesdropping in...
Grass, Sean. The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... GRASS, SEAN. The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner. (New York: Routledge, 2003). xi + 291 pp. $90.00.
Sean Grass sets off his account of the "Victorian prison novel" against a Foucauldian analysis in which narrative...
Hack, Daniel. The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... HACK, DANIEL. The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2005). 240 pp. $39.50.
The Victorian Literature and Culture Series of the University of Virginia Press has become during the...
Keren, Michael. The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... KEREN, MICHAEL. The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003). 173 pp. $24.95.
In about the last fifteen years, both moral philosophers and political theorists have directed...
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline. Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... MCCRACKEN-FLESHER, CAROLINE. Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 225pp. $60.00.
This is a dense and challenging book that tackles a dense and challenging theme-and clearly and...
Perry, Ruth. Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... PERRY, RUTH. Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 466 pp. $80.00.
Novel Relations is one of those rare academic books that can be read...
Pettitt, Clare. Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... PETTITT, Clare. Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). xiii + 341 pp. $55.00.
Writers and inventors have always faced the danger of being collapsed in the popular mind....