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Studies in the Novel articles from September 1994
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 September 1994
Mauling Governor Pyncheon. (Nathaniel Hawthorne's treatment of romance)
September 22, 1994... Hawthorne's conception of the romance has come under renewed attack in recent years, its claim of aesthetic "neutrality" dismissed as merely an evasion of political and social conflict. Sacvan Bercovitch describes The Scarlet Letter as a...
Charlotte Bronte's 'Villette': forgeries of sex and self.
September 22, 1994... FORGE: vb [ME, fr. OF, fr. L fabrica, fr. fabr-, faber] to form or bring into being esp. by an expenditure of effort; to make or imitate falsely esp. with intent to defraud: COUNTERFEIT
She cannot think in a beard
Sydney Dobell on "Currer...
Amy Levy and the "Jewish novel": representing Jewish life in the Victorian period.
September 22, 1994... In the last month of 1888 Macmillan brought out what was to become a controversial novel within the Jewish community on both sides of the Atlantic. Amy Levy, a twenty-seven-year-old Jewish woman who had already made something of a name for...
"The prisonhouse of my disposition": a study of the psychology of addiction in 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.'
September 22, 1994... Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, often has been classified as a literary study in divided or "split" personality. Indeed, given Jekyll's own profession that his life is one best defined by "commit[ment] to a...
Staging the gaze in D.H. Lawrence's 'Women in Love.'
September 22, 1994... Lawrence's fifth novel, Women in Love, has been almost universally judged among his finest achievements.(1) As a "war novel" coming out of what Paul Delany has termed "Lawrence's nightmare,"(2) it offers a testament of survival, a heroic...
Telling tales about genre: poetry in the romantic novel.
September 22, 1994... Due to a printer's error, Mary A. Favret's essay in the Summer, 1994, Romantic Novel Special Number, "Telling Tales About Genre: Poetry in the Romantic Novel," was missing page 156. Since this is the first error of this nature in Studies in the...
The Catholic Side of Henry James.
September 22, 1994... In 1993 the Henry James Society sponsored two major conferences, "Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics: Henry James in the New Century," and "Redefining Henry James's Place in Culture." While cultural studies are not explicit concerns of these...
Henry James and the Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing.
September 22, 1994... In 1993 the Henry James Society sponsored two major conferences, "Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics: Henry James in the New Century," and "Redefining Henry James's Place in Culture." While cultural studies are not explicit concerns of these...
Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James.
September 22, 1994... In 1993 the Henry James Society sponsored two major conferences, "Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics: Henry James in the New Century," and "Redefining Henry James's Place in Culture." While cultural studies are not explicit concerns of these...
George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations: A Reading of the Novels.
September 22, 1994... CARROLL, DAVID. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). 333 pp. $59.95.
David Carroll extends his contribution to George Eliot scholarship with George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations, A Reading of the Novels. He gave us the...
Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens.
September 22, 1994... DUNCAN, IAN. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). xii + 295 pp. $49.95.
This is a superb book. Powerfully intelligent and richly nuanced, it argues for the centrality of romance, rather than mimesis, in forging for the British...
Narrating Discovery: The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855.
September 22, 1994... GREENFIELD, BRUCE. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992). 249 pp. $36.50.
In Narrating Discovery, Bruce Greenfield traces the record of discovery as this genre's point of view toward North America shifted through the late eighteenth to...
Cynthia Ozick's Fiction: Tradition and Invention.
September 22, 1994... KAUVAR, ELAINE M. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). 288 pp. $29.95.
At a time when the (fascist) notion that physiology determines culture pervades literary interpretation and induces in many of its practitioners a tendency to...
The Great Good Place: The Country House and English Literature.
September 22, 1994... KELSALL. MALCOLM. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). 3-24 pp. $32.50.
Malcolm Kelsall defines The Great Good Place as "a conservative history" of how and why the English country house became such a powerful literary and (he argues)...
Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction.
September 22, 1994... KRAFT, ELIZABETH. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992). 202 pp. S35.00.
Elizabeth Kraft's Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction is a thoughtful and engaging study of the relationship of narrative authority...
"Don Quixote" and the Poetics of the Novel.
September 22, 1994... MARTINEZ-BONATI, FELIX. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992). xxii + 289 pp. $35.00.
A translation of an unpublished manuscript offers a commentary on a text purporting to be a translation of an unpublished manuscript. Cervantes would...
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination.
September 22, 1994... MORRISON, TONI. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). 91 pp. $14.95.
In her preface to this collection of William E. Massey lectures given at Harvard University, Toni Morrison expresses her long standing interest in the ways black...
Oscar Wilde Revalued: An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research.
September 22, 1994... SMALL, IAN. (Greensboro: ELT Press, 1993). xii + 275 pp. $30.00.
Through its modest understatement the title of Ian Small's latest book may, unfortunately, mislead some readers. It is in fact one of the foremost surveys and critiques...
Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lyrical Dimensions.
September 22, 1994... TETLOW, WENDOLYN E. (Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press, 1992). 158 pp. $28.50.
Underlying Ernest Hemingway's apparently simplistic sentence constructions and anti-intellectualist approach to writing is a more complex framework...
The Windings of the Labyrinth: Quest and Structure in the Major Novels of Wilkie Collins.
September 22, 1994... THOMS, PETER. (Athens. OH: Ohio University Press, 1992). vii + 182 pp. 35.00.
In this study, Thoms defends Collins against critics who view him as "a mere storyteller," a popular writer who develops intricate plots at the expense of...