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Studies in the Novel articles from September 2008
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 2008
The manuscript of Septimius: revisiting the scene of Hawthorne's "failure".(evaluation of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel Septimius Felton, or The Elixir of Life)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Nathaniel Hawthorne's Septimius Felton, or The Elixir of Life (1872) is habitually considered a failure today, valuable only as the pathetic documentation of the rapid decline of the creative capacity of one of America's greatest writers....
That "old rigmarole of childhood": fairytales and socialization in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Four and a half years before the serialization of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (1864-66), the Cornhill Magazine published "Curious, if True" (1860), one of the novelist's last gothic stories. The narrator of that tale, Richard...
The sublime train of sight in A Hazard of New Fortunes.(analysis of William Dean Howells' novel)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In 1888, William Dean Howells moved with his family from Boston to New York City. In the heady years preceding this relocation, Howells undertook a famously unpopular campaign in support of the Haymarket defendants, resigned from his editorship...
We're on a road to nowhere: Steinbeck, Kerouac, and the legacy of the great depression.(analysis of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath and Jack Kerouac's On the Road)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... At first glance, John Steinbeck's seminal Depression-era text The Grapes of Wrath (1939) would seem to have little in common with Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). However, like Steinbeck's work of realism, Kerouac's picaresque tale of...
Realism, modernism, and the representation of memory in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In January 1939, the British playwright Dodie Smith travelled from London to see the American production of her play Dear Octopus (1938). When war was declared, she and her husband, who was a conscientious objector, decided not to return to...
Representing violence, rewriting empire.(Epic and Empire in Nineteenth Century Britain; Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832; Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... DENTITH, SIMON. Epic and Empire in Nineteenth Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 245 pp. $88.00 cloth.
HAYWOOD, IAN. Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation, 1776-1832....
Modern England: police state, empire, cosmopolis.(analysis of Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture by Caroline Reitz, New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire by Leeanne M. Richardson, and Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation by Rebecca L. Walkowitz)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Reitz, Caroline. Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004. xxv + 123 pp. $62.95 cloth; $20.95 paper.
Richardson, Leeanne M. New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in...
Burack, Charles Michael. D. H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience: The Transfiguration of the Reader.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... BURACK, CHARLES MICHAEL. D. H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience: The Transfiguration of the Reader. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. 206 pp. $65.00.
Charles Burack's D. H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience is an ambitious...
Chu, Patricia E.: Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... CHU, PATRICIA E. Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 208 pp. $85.00
The blessing of new literary critical vogues is that scholars and teachers can have old...
Coffman, Christine E.: Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... COFFMAN, CHRISTINE E. Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. vii + 288 pp. $49.95.
Christine E. Coffman's book is tremendously intelligent and ambitious. It...
Desmond, John F.: Walker Percy's Search for Community.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... DESMOND, JOHN F. Walker Percy's Search for Community. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. 271 pp. $39.95.
At a time when prominent critics have called for a renewal in approaches to literature that are attuned to religion, the...
Schweizer, Bernard, ED.: Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... SCHWEIZER, BERNARD, ED. Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. 334 pp. $61.50.
This is the first collection of essays on the British novelist, journalist, and public intellectual...
Simmons, Ryan. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... SIMMONS, RYAN. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press. 208 pp. $39.95.
In the last decade, several novels by Charles W. Chesnutt have been released posthumously, resulting in a wealth of...
Stockton, Kathryn Bond. Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer.".(Book review)
September 22, 2008... STOCKTON, KATHRYN BOND. Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer." Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 271 pp. $79.95 cloth; $22.95 paperback.
Kathryn Bond Stockton's book is a welcome contribution to studies of...
Wesley, Marilyn C.: Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... WESLEY, MARILYN C. Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 232 pages. $55.00 cloth; $18.50 paper.
In Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men, Marilyn C....
Wilson, Keith, ED.: Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... WILSON, KEITH, ED. Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xxiii + 304 pp. $65.00.
This collection's subtitle straightforwardly characterizes its contents, a Festschrift...