Recently added articles from Studies in the Novel:
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 ...
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. ...
Towards a late view of capitalism: dehistoricized finance in The Financier.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A reader first encountering Theodore Dreiser's The Financier (1912) (1) might find it curious that a novel that so closely tracks a series of shady financial deals appears at the same time as a tribute to the historical rise of finance capitalism. The financier in question, Frank ...
The foreshadowed life in Wilkie Collins's No Name.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... "We find in distinct languages striking homologies due to community of descent." --Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man There is a little oddity at the beginning of Wilkie Collins's sixth novel, which everyone notices, a short Preface that ends by alerting his readers ...