Studies in the Novel back issues from June 2005:
Cosmopolitan complexities in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui.
Jun 22, 2005; ... Recent criticism (1) has noted the importance of cosmopolitanism in the works of the Anglo-Irish writer, Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). While she is frequently discussed in terms of nationalism and colonialism, (2) Cliona O Gallchoir has declared that "Maria Edgeworth's position as an ...
Conjecturing possibilities: reading and misreading texts in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Jun 22, 2005; ... Precisely halfway through the novel (almost to the very letter by a computer count of words), Elizabeth Bennet, the central character of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is the recipient of a letter. She is forced to read it twice. The letter is from Fitzwilliam Darcy, the man she will ...
Collins's Moonstone: the Victorian novel as sacrifice, theft, gift and debt.
Jun 22, 2005; ... In November 1869, Wilkie Collins turned his wit to a request by Dutch magazine publishers for permission to print a translation of his forthcoming novel. The publishers did not propose entering into commercial negotiations with Collins; instead, they offered the novelist a complimentary ...
"There's more honor": reinterpreting Tom and the evasion in Huckleberry Finn.
Jun 22, 2005; ... When Leo Marx, in 1953, published his landmark essay, "Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn," he could not have anticipated the avalanche of scholarly reactions to his critique that would proliferate during the next fifty years and that would help make Adventures of Huckleberry ...
Language, violence, and irrevocability: speech acts in "Tess of the d 'Urbervilles."
Jun 22, 2005; ... Like most works of literature, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles consists of speech acts, or at least contains examples of speech acts such as whatever the characters do by means of words. At the same time, among Hardy's other novels, it might be read as a story about speech acts ....
The Victorian novel in the material world.(ESSAY-REVIEW)(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Richard A. Kaye. The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. 272 pp. $32.00. Anna Krugovoy Silver. Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 234 pp. $65.00. ...
Abbott, Megan E. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... ABBOTT, MEGAN E. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 246pp. $59.95. Megan Abbott's The Street Was Mine examines the "tough guy" heroes in the works of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and their popular ...
Ardis, Ann L. and Leslie W. Lewis, eds. Women's Experience of Modernity 1875-1945.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... ARDIS, ANN L. AND LESLIE W. LEWIS, EDS. Women's Experience of Modernity 1875-1945. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 312 pp. $22.00 paper. Modernity, as the title suggests, takes precedence over modernism in this gathering of essays. "Modernism" has largely ...
Davies, Laurence, Frederick R. Karl, and Owen Knowles, eds. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: 1917-1919, vol. 6.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... DAVIES, LAURENCE, FREDERICK R. KARL, AND OWEN KNOWLES, EDS. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad: Volume 6: 1917-1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 570 pp. $110.00. What good are a writer's letters? What critical purpose can they serve? In the current climate ...
Esteve, Mary. The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... ESTEVE, MARY. The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 262 pp. $55.00 cloth. In this ambitious and erudite study, Mary Esteve successfully contends that any consideration of "the crowd" as a ...
Gaitet, Pascale. Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... GAITET, PASCALE. Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 171 pp. $38.50 (hardcover). Not much has happened in Genet scholarship for over a decade, ever since Edmund White published his quintessential study (Genet: A ...
Glen, Heather. Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... GLEN, HEATHER. Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 314 pp. $80.00. Only in recent decades have Bronte studies emerged from the biographical-based insistence that these were at best provincial and at worst eccentric works out of ...
Stanton, Judith Phillips. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... STANTON, JUDITH PHILLIPS. The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xlvii + 864 pp. $59.95 cloth. Many readers of Charlotte Smith admire her novels and her poetry in spite of the author's frequent and almost always complaining ...