Studies in the Novel articles from September 2005

Studies in the Novel archives from September 2005

From Roman to Roman: the Jacobin novel and the Roman legacy in the 1790s.
September 22, 2005... Introduction: Rome and the Jacobin Novel In his 1778 essay "On Novel Reading," Reverend Vicessimus Knox blames "Novels" for their contribution to what he perceives as the corruption and degeneracy of the present age. The sentimentality of...

Seeing colonial America and writing home about it: Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia, epistolarity, and the feminine picturesque.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... Charlotte Lennox published Euphemia in 1790, forty years after she published The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself Her final novel, like her first, is set partially in colonial America, probably circa 1740. As Lennox's early...

"One function in particular": professionalism and specialization in Daniel Deronda.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... Indeed he builds his goodness up So high, it topples down to the other side And makes a sort of badness. --Aurora Leigh, III: 492-94 The process of professionalization during the nineteenth century took shape amid a rhetorical contest...

Christopher Newman's haircloth shirt: worldly asceticism, conversion, and auto-machia in the American.
September 22, 2005... Henry James's The American (1876-77) presents itself almost as allegory. The hero's surname, Newman, suggests a modern Pilgrim's Progress. He inherits his Christian name, Christopher, from the man who, as Mlle. Nioche puts it, "invented...

George Gissing's psychology of "female imbecility".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2005... In a letter to Eduard Bertz dated 2 June 1893, Gissing wrote that he was "driven frantic by the crass imbecility of the typical woman. That type must disappear-or at all events become altogether subordinate" (Letters 5: 113). Gissing's tone is...

Jane Austen conversation.(Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture)(Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation)(Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Suzanne R. Pucci and James Thompson, eds. Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 277 pp. $29.95 Paper. Bbarat Tandon. Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation....

Curtis, Vanessa. Virginia Woolf's Women.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... CURTIS,VANESSA. Virginia Woolf's Women. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. 224 pp. $27.95. Vanessa Curtis offers a readable overview of several of the most important women to influence Virginia Woolf's life and work....

Dooley, Gillian, ED. From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... DOOLEY, GILLIAN, ED. From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 300 pp. $34.95. In the final conversation in this collection titled "Memories of Iris,"...

Granofsky, Ronald. D.H. Lawrence and Survival: Darwinism in the Fiction of the Transitional Period.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... GRANOFSKY, RONALD. D. H. Lawrence and Survival: Darwinism in the Fiction of the Transitional Period. Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xii + 212 pp. $65.00. Ronald Granofsky's critical study focuses on Lawrence's works of...

Haralson, Eric. Henry James and Queer Modernity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... HARALSON, ERIC. Henry James and Queer Modernity. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 265 pp. $60.00. Eric Haralson's Henry James and Queer Modernity is a welcome addition to the crowded scene of life-writing, fictional, and literary-critical...

Krauth, Leland. Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... KRAUTH, LELAND. Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xviii + 307 pp. $34.95. In Mark Twain & Company, Leland Krauth offers to move beyond biography per se--"boyhood joys and terrors......

Marks, Sylvia Kasey. Writing for the Rising Generation: British Fiction for Young People, 1672-1839.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... MARKS, SYLVIA KASEY. Writing for the Rising Generation: British Fiction for Young People, 1672-1839. ELS Monograph Series. 89. Victoria, BC: English Literary Studies. 2003. 171 pp. $23.00. For almost two hundred years, eighteenth-century...

Meyers, Jeffrey. Somerset Maugham: A Life.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... MEYERS, JEFFREY. Somerset Maugham: A Life. New York: Knopf, 2004. 411 pp. $30.00. There is a curious history to the attempts to write a biography of W. Somerset Maugham. During his life Maugham, always a shy and private man, discouraged...

Michelucci, Stefania. Space and Place in the Works of D.H. Lawrence.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... MICHELUCCI, STEFANIA. Space and Place in the Works of D. H. Lawrence. Trans. Jill Franks. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2002. 178 pp. $29.95 softcover. Stefania Michelucci's Space and Place in the Works olD. H. Lawrence is a short...

Quint, David. Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times. A New Reading of Don Quijote.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... QUINT, DAVID. Cervantes's Novel of Modern Times. A New Reading of Don Quijote. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 192 pp. $35.00. David Quint comes to Don Quijote through his readings of Renaissance and medieval romances of...

Strychacz, Thomas. Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... STRYCHACZ, THOMAS. Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. 284 pp. $59.95. It often seems that the fact that Ernest Hemingway was a writer is of secondary importance to the general public...