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Studies in the Novel articles from September 1998
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 1998
"I AM BECOME A MERE USURER": PAMELA AND DOMESTIC STOCK-JOBBING.
September 22, 1998... At the beginning of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1740), Pamela sends her parents the four gold guineas she has received from Mr. B., advising them to put half of it toward their "old Debt" and the other half toward...
FROM HOME TO HOMELAND: THE BOHEMIAN IN DANIEL DERONDA.
September 22, 1998... Humiliated at the gambling tables of the continent, Gwendolyn Harleth returns to her English homeland and to Offendene. "Just large enough to be called a mansion," Offendene is difficult to rent because it has no landed property attached to it...
"THE STORY OF THE PINEAPPLE": SENTIMENTAL ABOLITIONISM AND MORAL MOTHERHOOD IN AMELIA OPIE'S ADELINE MOWBRAY.
September 22, 1998... Although a conversion to Quakerism in the 1820s curbed her writing career, Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853) was throughout her life celebrated as an author of poetry and of numerous popular "tales" ranging in length from a few pages to multiple...
DEATH COMES FOR THE AESTHETE: COMMODITY CULTURE AND THE ARTIFACT IN CATHER'S THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE.
September 22, 1998... "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."(1)
"Art is made out of the love of old and intimate things. We always underestimate the common things."(2)
In her essays, interviews, and...
DJUNA BARNES AND T. S. ELIOT: THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF NIGHTWOOD(1).
September 22, 1998... The history of Nightwood is an embattled one. Djuna Barnes began the novel emerging from a nine-year relationship with another American expatriate in Paris, the silverpoint artist Thelma Wood, during one of the most peripatetic periods of her...
THE PYNDUSTRY IN WARWICK(*).
September 22, 1998... In the academic Fall of 1995, between conferences devoted to "virtual futures" in "the arts and cyberculture" (p. 9), a number of philosophy graduate students at the University of Warwick hosted a conference on Thomas Pynchon and Gilles...
EDITH WHARTON AS CRITIC, TRAVELLER, AND WAR HERO.
September 22, 1998... The recent publication of Edith Wharton's uncollected critical writings, a selection of her travel writings, and a study of her activities throughout the First World War indicate that Wharton continues to garner attention commensurate with her...
Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels.(Review)
September 22, 1998... BURWELL, ROSE MARIE. Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996). xvii + 250 pp. Cloth, $54.95: paper, $19.95.
Until Rose Marie Burwell's book appeared, the posthumously published...
High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939.(Review)
September 22, 1998... DIBATTISTA, MARIA and LUCY MCDIARMID, eds. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). 259 pp. $49.95.
The essays in this anthology, its editors report, demonstrate the intimate and...
Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... GOGOL, MIRIAM, ed. Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism (New York: New York University Press, 1995). xvii + 269 pp. $45.00 cloth; $19.00 paper.
As her subtitle suggests, Miriam Gogol wants to take Dreiser criticism beyond discussions of the...
The Collected Letters of George Gissing.(Review)
September 22, 1998... MATTHEISEN, PAUL F., ARTHUR C. YOUNG, and PIERRE COUSTILLAS, eds. The Collected Letters of George Gissing (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1990-1997). $70.00 each volume. 9 Vols.
"What I am bent on doing, is to write books which will be...
The Imaginative Claims of the Artist in Willa Cather's Fiction: "Possession Granted by a Different Lease".(Review)
September 22, 1998... PECK, DEMAREE C. The Imaginative Claims of the Artist in Willa Cather's Fiction: "Possession Granted by a Different Lease" (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1996). 342 pp. $48.50.
Demaree Peck's sizable and well-researched...
Correspondent Colorings: Melville in the Marketplace.(Review)
September 22, 1998... POST-LAURIA, SHEILA. Correspondent Colorings: Melville in the Marketplace (Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusett Press, 1996). 276 pp. Cloth $50.00, paper $17.95.
The popular image of Herman Melville's career seems fairly set:...