Novel back issues from October 2003:
Haunting Pictures, Missing Letters: Visual Displacement and Narrative Elision in Villette
Oct 01, 2003; ... A "picture" held us captive. And we could not get outside it .... Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations But when we confront things themselves, if we stare at a face, a corner of a room, doesn't it also sometimes happen that we abandon ourselves to what we see, that we are at ...
Dickensian Intemperance: Charity and Reform
Oct 01, 2003; ... Wildly popular in its own day, The Pickwick Papers (1836-37) is now best known for having inaugurated the Victorian novel. Written in the fallow period following the death of Sir Walter Scott, it entered a literary field divided into minor sub-genres and emerged as the model of what all novels ...
Why Lovelace Must Die
Oct 01, 2003; ... My divine Clarissa has puzzled me, and bent me out of my play. I Samuel Richardson designed, composed and published Clarissa in the shadow of the failed 1745 Jacobite uprising; the fate of his villain, Lovelace, is intricately connected to the fortunes of the Jacobite prince ....
Hyding the Subject?: The Antinomies of Masculinity in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Oct 01, 2003; ...... our body is a only social structure composed of many souls. Nietzsche An Historical Pretext The story of the story begins with a dream. As the narrative of its origins would have it, the idea for The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde first infected its author's ...
Tautological Crimes: Why Women Can't Steal Jewels
Oct 01, 2003; ... Max Ophuls's 1953 film Madame de ... begins with a close-up of a woman's gloved hands opening a jewelry box and carefully handling its contents. The camera follows her fingers as they visit her exhaustive collection of beautiful things, caressing and evaluating each one. What is the nameless ...
"A Fall in Bread": Speculation and the Real in Emma
Oct 01, 2003; ... A fall in Bread by the bye. I hope my Mother's Bill next week will shew it. Jane Austen, Letters On November 3, 1813, Jane Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra, commenting on the fall in the price of bread. The remark may seem innocuous enough, but the fall was the first ripple ...
Protecting and Embedding the Eighteenth-Century Self
Oct 01, 2003; ... Protecting and Embedding the Eighteenth-Century Self PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS, Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003), pp. 256, $36.00. WOLFRAM SCHMIDGEN, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002), pp ....
Bloodless Revolution and the Form of the Novel
Oct 01, 2003; ... Perhaps no important revolution was ever bloodless. William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Introduction A recent special issue of Novel: a Forum on Fiction (Spring 2001) takes up the question of the Romantic novel. What was it? What is it now? Why was it so ...
Wired Victorians
Oct 01, 2003; ... Wired Victorians JAY CLAYTON, Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture (New York: Oxford UP, 2003), pp. 236, $35.00. Despite its title, Charles Dickens in Cyberspace is not about hypertext editions of Bleak House or David Copperfield or ...
Literature or Economics?
Oct 01, 2003; ... Literature or Economics? GORDON BIGELOW, Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 242 , $65.00. Gordon Bigelow's Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland is an ingenious and ...
Neil Hertz's Pulse
Oct 01, 2003; ... Neil Hertz's Pulse NEIL HERTZ, George Eliot's Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), pp. xii + 168, cloth, $60.00, paper, $18.95. As many critics have known for some time, the combination of Neil Hertz's intimate familiarity with George Eliot's corpus, his interest in the sublime, ...
The Anthologized Novel
Oct 01, 2003; ... The Anthologized Novel LEAH PRICE, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot (New York: Cambridge UP, 2000), pp. 224, cloth, $55.00, paper, $23.99. Trying to save money on books during graduate school, I bought a used edition of Clarissa instead of the one ...
Amnesiac Fiction
Oct 01, 2003; ... Amnesiac Fiction NICHOLAS DAMES, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001), pp. 298 + ix, $24.95. In this tremendously ambitious book, Nicholas Dames argues that to regard memory as central to the nineteenth-century novel is ...
Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White
Oct 01, 2003; ... At the center of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White is a problem that masquerades as a solution. Walter Hartright's almost unique ability to identify his wife is presented as the answer to the question of how she will be restored to her rightful position in society. According to him, she is ...
Desiring Difference: Sympathy and Sensibility in Jane Eyre
Oct 01, 2003; ... Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had [sic] not yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for ...