Novel back issues from October 1999:
The serialist vanishes: Producing belief in George Eliot
Oct 01, 1999; ... Why should one expect the truth to be consoling? --George Eliot to Edith Simcox1 Though the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton and the publisher John Blackwood had discussed the idea more than two decades before, Middlemarch was the first Victorian serial novel to be published in ...
Wasted value: The serial logic of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay
Oct 01, 1999; ... In a passage just before the midpoint of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, one of the most telling examples of what would come to be called the Condition of England genre,1 George Ponderevo's childhood friend Ewart, a hard-drinking, itinerant artist prone to spouting Nietzschean aphorisms, visits the ...
The theater of politeness in Charlotte Lennox's British-American novels
Oct 01, 1999; ... Charlotte Lennox's literary life is flanked like book-ends by two novels set in the 1740s, which juxtapose the conduct of British society in the metropolis with that of Britons in Colonial Albany, Schenectady, and New York. Writing in England, where she attained fame (though not, it seems, ...
Heterosexual exchange and other Victorian fictions: The Eustace Diamonds and Victorian anthropology
Oct 01, 1999; ... Victorian novels and the people who read them have long been fascinated with the intersections of money and sex. When the economic and erotic come together and seem to resemble, explain, or reflect upon one another, money makes sex important and sex makes money, well, sexy. In particular, the ...
Urban interiors
Oct 01, 1999; ... SHARON MARCUS, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 323, $45.00. In a 1993 essay on Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, Sharon Marcus argues that even though that novel focuses almost exclusively, indeed ...
Improvising enlightenment
Oct 01, 1999; ... RICHARD A. BARNEY, Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. xii + 402, $49.50. In recent years important studies in the novel, from Nancy Armstrong's Desire and Domestic Fiction and John Bender's Imagining the ...
Writing rape and the differrence it makes
Oct 01, 1999; ... NANCY L. PAXTON, Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999), pp. 288, cloth, $52.00, paper, $23.00. Rape is the master trope of colonial discourse-and intercourse. The pun is intended, but ...
Being an Englishman
Oct 01, 1999; ... IAN BAUCOM, Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 249, cloth, $55.00, paper, $18.95. ANTONY EASTHOPE, Englishness and National Culture (New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 243, paper, $24.99. Salman ...
Remedial modernisms
Oct 01, 1999; ... COLLEEN LAMOS, Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 288, $59.95. VICKI MAHAFFEY, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ...
Intercultural transmission
Oct 01, 1999; ... CAROLE ANNE TAYLOR, The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women's Fiction (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pp. 288, $39.95. Carole Anne Taylor's new book employs the twinned notions of tragedy and comedy to investigate a whole range ...
Woolf's war stories
Oct 01, 1999; ... KAREN L. LEVENBACK, Virginia Woolf and the Great War (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999), pp. 208, $34.95. In his memoirs, Leonard Woolf calls her "the least political animal that has lived since Aristotle invented the definition." The days when critics concurred with Leonard's ...
Joyce's significance for Derrida
Oct 01, 1999; ... Joyce's Significance for Derrida ALAN ROUGHLEY, Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), pp. 176, $49.95. Over the past thirty-eight years, Jacques Derrida's writings have often alluded to, invoked, and at times directly addressed James ...
Biblical narratives, secular and sacred
Oct 01, 1999; ... Biblical Narratives, Secular and Sacred HAROLD FISCH, New Stories for Old: Biblical Patterns in the Novel (New York: Macmillan Press, 1998), pp. x + 236, $55.00. In his foundational book, Jerusalem and Albion (Schocken, 1964), Harold Fisch made the case for the pervasive ...
Conjuring the folk aesthetic
Oct 01, 1999; ... Conjuring the Folk Aesthetic ALMA JEAN BILLINGSLEA-BROWN, Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), pp. 146, $27.50. Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art ...