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Studies in the Novel articles from September 2006
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 2006
Staging a lesson: the theatricals and proper conduct in Mansfield Park.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Studies of Mansfield Park often explore the rehearsal of August Von Kotzebue's Lovers' Vows, adapted for an English audience by Elizabeth Inchbald. Simply by acting in a play, the Bertrams transgress the unstated rule of the absent Sir Thomas:...
The good soldier and capital's interiority complex.(Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... As one of the best-known examples of English literary impressionism, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (1915) is a story about the ephemeral, private, and anxiously guarded interiority of the bourgeois psychological subject. In other words, it...
From text to tableau: ekphrastic enchantment in Mrs. Dalloway and to the lighthouse.(Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in...
Mourning the death of the Raj? melancholia as historical engagement in Paul Scott's Raj Quartet.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... The Politics of History in the Raj Quartet
The greatest achievement of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet (1966-75) lies in its insistent recognition that the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent is a shared burden of memory for India and England...
Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and the female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Describing his experience with the Holocaust survivor testimony on which he bases his theories of witnessing and recovery, trauma scholar and psychiatrist Dori Laub observes:
survivors did not only need to survive so that they could...
Cleere, Eileen. Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Nineteenth-Century English Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... CLEERE, EILEEN. Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Nineteenth-Century English Culture. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2004. 238 pp. $49.50.
With her ambitious book, Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Nineteenth-Century English Culture,...
Curnutt, Kirk, Ed. A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald.(Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... CURNUTT, KIRK, ED. A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 285 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
WAGNER-MARTIN, LINDA. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life. New York: Palgrave...
Phelan, James. Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... PHELAN, JAMES. Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005). 236 pp. $19.95.
James Phelan's new volume admirably performs the "theorypractice" that he and Peter...
Titus, Mary. The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter.(Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... TITUS, MARY. The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005). 252 + xii pp. $39.95.
UNRUE, DARLENE HARBOUR. Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,...
WOOD, RALPH C. Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... WOOD, RALPH C. Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Erdmans Publishing, 2004. 284 pp. $22.00.
Ralph C. Wood, Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University, has in the past 40 years joined the...
Corrections.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2006... CORRECTIONS: The following corrections (in bold brackets) belong to Andrew Harrison's Essay-Review, "D. H. Lawrence Today: Old Issues and New Editions" (38.2). We regret the errors involved in the misprinting of his work.
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