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Studies in the Novel articles from September 2001
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 2001
Narrative of the captivity and redemption of Roger Prynne: rereading the scarlet letter.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Pearl's lack of a father lies at the heart of The Scarlet Letter. It is not surprising, then, that many scholars find The Scarlet Letter resolved when Pearl's biological father, the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, publicly acknowledges her. My...
Soldier boy: forming masculinity in Adam Bede.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... A good deal has been written recently about changing ideals of masculinity during the nineteenth century and the depiction of those changing ideals in the literature of the time. (1) The general picture now is that the flamboyant aristocratic...
Seeing into "the life of things": nature and commodification in Phantom Fortune.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... The fairy Do-nothing was gorgeously dressed with a wreath of flaming gas round her head... Her cheeks were rouged to the very eyes,--her teeth were set in gold, and her hair was of a most brilliant purple.
The fairy Teach-all, who...
Construing Conrad's "the secret sharer": suppressed narratives, subaltern reception, and the act of interpretation.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... "The Secret Sharer" may well appear to be profoundly multivalent, even to the point of self-contradiction. It is at the same time both a writerly text that invites a wide variety of incompatible interpretations and, curiously, a readerly text...
Spectacular homes and pastoral theaters: gender, urbanity and domesticity in the house of mirth.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Near the beginning of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, Lily Bart tells Lawrence Selden that she needs a friend who will be honest with her, who won't be afraid to say "disagreeable" things. "You don't know how much I need such a friend," she...
Approach and Avoid: Essays on "Gravity's Rainbow". Pynchon Notes. (Essay-Review: The Scholar-Magicians Of The Zone).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Approach and Avoid: Essays on "Gravity's Rainbow". Pynchon Notes. Ed. Luc Herman. (Spring-Fall 1998). 342 pp. $10.00.
In his introduction to the 1998 Pynchon Notes special issue on Gravity's Rainbow, guest-editor Luc Herman explains that...
The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1864-1830. (Essay-Review: Pornography And The Fall of The Novel).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Bradford K. Mudge. The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). xvi + 276 pp. $35.00.
In The True Story of the Novel, Margaret Anne Doody invites us to celebrate long...
Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. (Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... ARMSTRONG. NANCY. Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1999). xiii + 338 pages. $29.95 cloth.
In this detailed exploration of the relationship between the realism of...
The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination. (Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... CRAIG, CAIRNS. The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999). 256 pp. $23.00.
Cairns Craig's The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination is a book...
Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction. (Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... JAFFE, AUDREY. Scenes of Sympathy: Identity, and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000). 184 pp. $39.95.
In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe explores the dynamics of sympathetic identification in...
Latent Destinies. Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative. (Reviews).(Review)
September 22, 2001... O'DONNELL PATRICK. Latent Destinies. Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000). xi + 193 pp. $17.95.
Following John Hawkes (1982), Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in...