Studies in the Novel articles from September 2007

Studies in the Novel archives from September 2007

Manly lessons: Sir Charles Grandison, the rake, and the man of sentiment.
September 22, 2007... Some of us are to be set up for warnings, some for examples: And the first are generally of greater use to the world than the other. --Sir Charles Grandison, 4:246 Such is the wisdom of Samuel Richardson's ultimate heroine, Harriet...

The races of women: gender, hybridity, and national identity in Dinah Craik's Olive.
September 22, 2007... The 1840s saw the consolidation of a hitherto emergent concept of race in Britain, largely, I will suggest, in response to famine and rebellion in Ireland. Whereas late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British writers had understood...

"The Invisible Giant," Dracula, and disease.
September 22, 2007... When Dracula was reintroduced into critical debate in the 1970s it was largely due to the enthusiasm of psychoanalytic critics for the novel's evocative interpretations of unconscious fantasies of desire. Such analyses quickly widened into an...

The perspective of the look in the introspective and truth-quest novel.
September 22, 2007... When analyzing writings of introspection, we have to depart from the look, which has us face objects that simultaneously hide and reveal themselves. In the novelistic discourse of introspection, the look, much as in Heidegger's philosophy,...

Imaging the past: cultural memory in Dubravka Ugresic's The Museum of Unconditional Surrender.
September 22, 2007... "You've got five minutes to take your albums and get out!" This puzzling order is given by a Serbian general shelling Sarajevo to a Bosnian friend whose house he decides to target next. The bizarre war scene is captured by Yugoslavian-born...

Jane Austen once more.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Pat Rogers. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 622 pp. $120.00. Heydt-Stevenson, Jill. Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive...

Rethinking liberal individualism in the early American novel.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Margolis, Stacey. The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 235 pp. $74.95 Cloth; $21.95 Paper. Okker, Patricia. Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century...

Andres, Sophia. The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... ANDRES, SOPHIA. The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2005. 208 pp. $29.95. The Victorian period, and particularly the Pre-Raphaelite...

Bluemel, Kristin. George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... BLUEMEL, KRISTIN. George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 246 pp. $65.00. The reputation of some writers is based on the perceived rectitude of their views or of...

Caldwell, Janis McLarren. Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... CALDWELL, JANIS McLARREN. Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 201 pp. $ 75.00. With this monograph, Janis McLarren Caldwell makes an...

Castronovo, David. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... CASTRONOVO, DAVID. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture. New York: Continuum Press, 2004 (cloth), 2005 (paperback). 208 pages. $24.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paperback). David Castronovo's notable book...

Chase, Karen, Ed. Middlemarch in the 21st Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... CHASE, KAREN, Ed. Middlemarch in the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 224 pp. $24.95. In her introduction, Karen Chase notes that "The readings are never flippant, but they are not reverent either. Irreverence is...

Hardy, Clarence E., III. James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... HARDY, CLARENCE E., III. James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xvi + 148 pp. $50.00. Even in his own time, James Baldwin was a peculiar mix of the timely and...

Johnson, George M. Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... JOHNSON, GEORGE M. Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 272 pp. $90.00. For scholars of British literary modernism, who focus on theories of the unconscious, selfhood, and narrative, Dynamic...

Kreilkamp, Ivan. Voice and the Victorian Storyteller.(Inaugural Wounds: The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century Novels)(Book review)
September 22, 2007... KREILKAMP, IVAN. Voice and the Victorian Storyteller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 252 pp. $85.00. LOUGY, ROBERT E. Inaugural Wounds: The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century Novels. Athens: University of Georgia...

Newman, Beth. Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... NEWMAN, Beth. Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 192 pp. $42.95. Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity...