Recently added articles from Studies in the Novel:
Saints' everlasting rest: the martyrdom of Maggie Tulliver.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. She knew little of saints and martyrs, and had gathered, as a general result of her teaching, that they were a temporary provision against the spread of Catholicism and had all died at Smithfield. ...
In the country of missing persons: Paul Auster's narratives of trauma.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Paul Auster's recent novel, The Brooklyn Follies (2006), opens with a stunning line--"I was looking for a quiet place to die"--and closes with a faintly foreshadowed but still shocking reference to the "brilliant blue sky" under which the protagonist walks in New York City on the morning ...
"To make a novel": the construction of a critical readership in Ian McEwan's Atonement.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Much of the critical response to Ian McEwan's novel Atonement has focused on the metafictional elements of the work's narrative structure, as well as Briony Tallis's revelation in the final pages that she in fact authored the text. Critics have asked whether the novel earns this epilogue ...
What is the matter with Henry James?(book reviews)(books about Henry James)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Coulson, Victoria. Henry James, Women and Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.250 pp. $95.00 cloth. Johnson, Kendal. Henry James and the Visual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.262 pp. $100.00 cloth. Otten, Thomas. A Superficial Reading of ...
Ambivalence at a crossroads in literary modernism.(book reviews)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Brown, Dennis and Jenny Piastow, Eds. Ford Madox Ford and Englishness. International Ford Madox Ford Studies 5. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. 290 pp. $75.00. McGarry, Lisa Coughlin. Orts, Scraps, and Fragments: The Elusive Search for Meaning in Virginia Woolf's Fiction ....