Studies in the Novel back issues from March 2006:
"Household forms and ceremonies": narrating routines in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.(Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Critics discussing Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (1851-53) frequently situate it in relation to other genres of writing. In fact, owing in part to Cranford's original composition, a series of sketches published in rather irregular increments in Household Words, and in part to its unique ...
The empire of the future: imperialism and modernism in H. G. Wells.
Mar 22, 2006; ... H. G. Wells's scientific romances of the 1890s are remarkably innovative in form and subject matter, and the first in the series, The Time Machine, may be the most original of them all. It virtually inaugurated the genre of science fiction, and has been shamelessly imitated by aspiring ...
Cather's "Midi Romanesque": missionaries, myth, and the grail in Death Comes for the Archbishop.(Jean Marie Latour's novel)
Mar 22, 2006; ... "'Our own Midi Romanesque is the right style for this country.'" Death Comes for the Archbishop (253) Father Jean Marie Latour's clear vision of his Midi Romanesque cathedral for Santa Fe surprises his vicar, Father Joseph Vaillant, who responds: "'I had no idea you were going ...
"Lita is--jazz": the Harlem renaissance, cabaret culture, and racial amalgamation in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep.(Edith Wharton's "Twilight Sleep")
Mar 22, 2006; ... Edith Wharton's 1927 novel Twilight Sleep has consistently suffered from a lack of critical scrutiny because, perhaps, when it is paired with better-known novels like The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, or The Custom of the Country, it appears rather anomalous-Madam Wharton, novelist ...
The Quiet American and the novel.
Mar 22, 2006; ... Graham Greene's Vietnam novel The Quiet American (1955) tells the story of a jaded English reporter, an idealistic American diplomat, and an inscrutable Vietnamese dancer who likes to go to the cinema. Or, to put it differently, it is about a man who writes reluctantly, another man who ...
Jane Austen Criticism, 1951-2004.(Jane Austen and the Theatre)(Jane Austen on Screen)(Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading and Speech in the Age of Austen)(Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... GAY, Penny. Jane Austen and the Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 366 pp. $50.00. MACDONALD, Gina and Andrew, eds. Jane Austen on Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 296 pp. $70.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. MICHAELSON, Patricia Howell ....
Black, Michael. Lawrence's England: The Major Fiction, 1913-20.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... BLACK, MICHAEL. Lawrence's England: The Major Fiction, 1913-20. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001. vii+245 pp. $65.00. The title Lawrence's England may rightly remind a reader of Lawrence's lines in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), referring to England's ...
Conrad, Joseph. Notes on Life and Letters.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... CONRAD, JOSEPH. Notes on Life and Letters. Ed. J. H. Stape, with the assistance of Andrew Busza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 500 pages. $120.00. In the Preface to this volume, first published in 1921, Conrad apologized for having been led by the "kindness" and ...
Cushman, Keith and Earl G. Ingersoll, Eds. D. H. Lawrence: New Worlds.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... CUSHMAN, KEITH and EARL G. INGERSOLL, Eds. D. H. Lawrence: New Worlds. Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. 281 pp. $52.50. This lively collection of essays takes its title from the Seventh International D. H. Lawrence Conference, held in Taos, New Mexico, in ...
Davis, Thadious. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... DAVIS, THADIOUS. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. xii + 340 pp. $22.95. Thadious Davis excavates a "micro-environment for studying the relationships among property, race, gender, and law" (3) in ...
Genet, Jean. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... GENET, JEAN. The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews. Albert Dichy, Werner Hamacher, David E. Wellbery, eds. Jeff Fort, trans. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 384 pp. $24.95. First Genet was a poet. Then he was a novelist. After that he became a playwright. And ...
Karem, Jeff. The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... KAREM, JEFF. The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. 256 pp. $55.00. Jeff Karem, in The Romance of Authenticity, explores how historical expectations regarding cultural ...
Peretz, Eyal. Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick.'.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... PERETZ, EYAL. Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick.' Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. 176pp. $40.00. Somewhere between literature and philosophy is comparative literature, negotiating a very long hostility between two rivals. The ...