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Studies in the Novel articles from September 1999
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 1999
SIGNING EVELINA: FEMALE SELF-INSCRIPTION IN THE DISCOURSE OF LETTERS.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... The story of Frances Burney's entrance into the literary world could hardly be more complicated if she herself had designed the various deferrals, deceptions, and deflections that problematize any attempt to characterize her authorial status....
MIDDLE-CLASS ERASURES: THE DECREATIONS OF MRS. GENERAL AND MR. PODSNAP.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... Vereen Bell has suggested that in Little Dorrit Dickens holds "up a mirror to those whom he considered responsible [for the social inequalities of England]--apparently with the hope that if they could see nothing else they could at least see...
CHARACTER DESIGN IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... Until the 1980s, The Picture of Dorian Gray was generally considered to be a deeply flawed novel. To some critics, it was simply badly written.(1) To others, it was hopelessly confused, reflecting Wilde' s uncertainty and irresolution.(2) To...
"THE HUN IS AT THE GATE!": HISTORICIZING KIPLING'S MILITARISTIC RHETORIC, FROM THE IMPERIAL PERIPHERY TO THE NATIONAL CENTER.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... PART ONE: THE RUSSIAN THREAT TO BRITISH INDIA
Fenced by your careful fathers, ringed by your leaden seas,
Long did ye wake in quiet and long lie down at ease;
Till ye said of Strife, "What is it?"; of the Sword, "It is
far...
"GLORIOUS PAGAN THAT I ADORE": RESISTING THE NATIONAL REPRODUCTIVE IMPERATIVE IN ROSAMOND LEHMANN'S DUSTY ANSWER.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1999... Arguably the most daring lesbian novel of the inter-war years, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness,(1) published in 1928, elicited sensational response from readers and outrage from authorities. Although many intellectuals defended the...
Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... CORKIN, Stanley. Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996). 256 pp. $40.00.
Stanley Corkin's Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States offers one of the most convincingly...
The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... LEHAN, RICHARD. The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). xvi + 330 pp. $45 hardcover, $17.95 paper.
It is characteristic of what can be called Richard Lehan's...
Cultural Institutions of the Novel.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... LYNCH, DEIDRE and WILLIAM B. WARNER, eds. Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996). 488 pp. $59.95.
The publication of Cultural Institutions of the Novel, edited by Deidre Lynch and William B. Warner,...
An American Tragedy: Perils of the Self Seeking "Success".(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... ORLOV, PAUL A. An American Tragedy: Perils of the Self Seeking "Success" (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1998). 242 pp. $41.50.
While recent years have seen collections of essays on Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Paul A....
Beyond Innocence, or the Altersroman in Modern Fiction.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... WESTERVELT, LINDA A. Beyond Innocence, or the Altersroman in Modern Fiction (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997). xii + 185 pp. $ 29.95.
Although we are living in the midst of a revolution in longevity (in the United States,...