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Studies in the Novel articles from September 2002
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 2002
Jane's Crown of Thorns: feminism and Christianity in Jane Eyre.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... St. John is unmarried: he never will marry now. Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil; and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting.... And why weep for this? No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour:...
"To obey and to trust": Adam Bede and the politics of deference.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... I have arrived at faith in the past, but not faith in the future (George Eliot to William Blackwell, 6 May 1859, Letters 3:66)
Commenced in 1857 and published in 1859, Adam Bede, like most of George Eliot's novels, is noticeable for its...
Pan and the appleyness of landscape: dread of the procreative body in "The Princess".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... "So much depends on one's attitude."--D. H. Lawrence, "Pan in America"
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Characteristic praise for "The Princess" fails to acknowledge the integrative context of its excellence within the Lawrencian canon. This lengthy tale remains...
"All my habits of mind": performance and identity in the novels of Mary McCarthy.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... Before she was a writer of novels, memoirs, travel books, and political commentary, Mary McCarthy was a theater critic. As a young writer, she turned her brilliant mind and her practiced book reviewer's eye on the contemporary stage, beginning...
The burning carousel and the carnivalesque: subversion and transcendence at the close of The Catcher in the Rye.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... Beyond the controversy that has surrounded The Catcher in the Rye since it first appeared, and beyond contemporary assessments of the novel's political/cultural relevance, J. D. Salinger's Catcher merits ongoing consideration because of the...
Crises in Joyce studies.(5 books on James Joyce)(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Derek Attridge. Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 226 pp. $59.95 (hardback); $19.95 (paperback).
Derek Attridge and Marjorie Howes, eds. Semicolonial Joyce. New York: Cambridge...
Alter, Robert. Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). x + 198 pp. $18.50.
It should be said right away (for almost everything in this kind of area has several possible meanings) that "Scripture" here means the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, as it...
Boyd, Brian. Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Xii + 303 pp. $29.95.
It is difficult to imagine a closer reading of a literary text than Brian Boyd's Nabokov's "Pale Fire ": The Magic of Artistic Discovery. His analysis is particularly...
Hoeller, Hildegard. Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 224 pp. $49.95.
Hoeller's book is, first of all, simply a pleasure to read. While she explores the complex manner in which Wharton stylistically negotiates the intellectual demands of literary...
Keen, Suzanne. Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 242 pp. $54.95.
In Victorian Renovations of the Novel, Suzanne Keen emphasizes the dynamic tensions between novelists' representational strategies and the Victorian conventions that shaped them...
Pratt, Catherine. Resisting Fiction: The Novels of Henry Handel Richardson.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999. xv + 215 pp. $29.95 paper.
A recent authoritative publication on Australian Literature primly ruled Henry Handel Richardson "Out of Bounds." (Her sport, by the way, was tennis not hockey.)...
Tromp, Marlene. The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 288 pp. $37.50.
The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain examines the contributions of sensation fiction to the discourse on marital violence in...