Recently added articles from Novel:
First Person Sexual
Oct 01, 2007; ... First Person Sexual MICHAEL LUCEY, Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 336, cloth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. Gide records in his journal that during a discussion of his memoirs, Proust exhorted him, "You can tell anything, ...
Modernismo and Modernization
Oct 01, 2007; ... Modernismo and Modernization ADAM SHARMAN, Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature: From Darío to Carpentier (New York: Palgrave, 2006), pp. 240, cloth, $69.95. In his introduction, Adam Sharman claims for his book the task of "excavating the logic that structures the ...
Looking Back
Oct 01, 2007; ... Looking Back MITCHELL BREITWEISER, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature (Stanford UP, 2007), pp. 336, cloth, $60.00. According to National Melancholy, American writers believe in what Mitchell Breitweiser concisely identifies as the "not-yet" ...
Pleasure Works
Oct 01, 2007; ... Pleasure Works caroline LESJAK, Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 288, cloth, $79.95, paper, $22.95. In Working Fictions, Caroline Lesjak explores the relation between labor and pleasure in the context of the Victorian novel's mapping of ...
Faking It
Oct 01, 2007; ... Faking It aviva BRIEFEL, The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006), pp. 256, cloth, $39.95. In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt famously writes about the role that consumer goods play "within this world of durable ...