Recently added articles from Novel:
Refiguring the Sentimental
Oct 01, 2007; Berman, Carolyn Vellenga ... Refiguring the Sentimental LYNN FESTA, Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006), pp. 312, cloth, $55.00. Lynn Festa's account of the shortcomings (and the strengths) of imperialist benevolence in the eighteenth century is ...
Fit and Surfeit in As I Lay Dying
Oct 01, 2007; Widiss, Benjamin ... "'Meet Mrs Bundren,' he says." Anse Bundren's introduction, "kind of hangdog and proud too" (261), of his new wife to his astonished children, less than twenty-four hours after they have finally managed to inter Addie Bundren, his first wife and the children's mother, strikes many ...
Nothing Personal: The Decapitation of Character in A Tale of Two Cities
Oct 01, 2007; Stout, Daniel ... One could not read the correspondence of an old-regime intendant with his superiors and subordinates without noting how the similarity of institutions makes the officials of that time similar to those of our own. They seem to shake hands across the abyss of the Revolution which separates ...
The Trial Narrative in Richardson's Pamela: Suspending the Hermeneutic of Happiness
Oct 01, 2007; Soni, Vivasvan ... That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Milton, Areopagitica "Happiness is a new idea in Europe," declared Saint-Just in 1794. Historians have by and large concurred with his assessment, despite its revolutionary hyperbole. The eighteenth century, they ...
Maggie, Not a Girl of the Streets
Oct 01, 2007; Cottom, Daniel ... The grisette leaves home, and she goes to work: so her story begins. Before it ends, this carefree girl will divide nations and novels, antagonize even some of those most attracted to her, and, in her provocative simplicity, raise questions so complex that they might seem to draw one inexorably ...
Sister Insider
Oct 01, 2007; Love, Heather ... Sister Insider Sharon Marcus, Betiveen Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 368, cloth, $65.00, paper, $19.95. The reach of Sharon Marcus's new book is evident in her title. Between Women not only addresses the full range of ...
From City to Country: An Outline of Fluvio-Critique
Oct 01, 2007; Terdiman, Richard ... "O rus quando ego te adspiciam."1 Narratives are models for time. They figure the conflict between desire and what thwarts it. Such dialectics of desire define what we hope time will bring and what we fear forestalls such fortune. Thus stories conceive our experience as lived, charged ...
Poverty and the Man
Oct 01, 2007; Christianson, Frank ... Poverty and the Man DAN BIVONA and ROGER B. HENKLE, The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 208, cloth, $39.95. When Esther Summerson of Bleak House concludes in a moment of ostensibly heightened sympathy that the ...
The Novel's Empirical World
Oct 01, 2007; Price, Leah ... FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 928, cloth, $125.00, paper, $35.00. FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume II: Forms and Themes (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 960, cloth, $125.00, paper, ...
Ian McEwan's Saturday and the Aesthetics of Prose
Oct 01, 2007; Knapp, Peggy A ... I worry about images. Images are what things mean. Take the word image. It connotes soft, sheer flesh shimmering on the air, like the rainbowed slick of a bubble. Image connotes images, the multiplicity being an image. Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their ...
A Fine Mess
Oct 01, 2007; Evenson, Brian ... FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume I: History, Geography, and Culture (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 928, cloth, $125.00, paper, $35.00. FRANCO MORETTI, ED., The Novel, Volume II: Forms and Themes (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 960, cloth, $125.00, paper, ...
Faking It
Oct 01, 2007; Flint, Kate ... Faking It aviva BRIEFEL, The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006), pp. 256, cloth, $39.95. In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt famously writes about the role that consumer goods play "within this world of durable ...
Pleasure Works
Oct 01, 2007; Shuman, Cathy ... Pleasure Works caroline LESJAK, Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 288, cloth, $79.95, paper, $22.95. In Working Fictions, Caroline Lesjak explores the relation between labor and pleasure in the context of the Victorian novel's mapping of ...
Looking Back
Oct 01, 2007; Burrows, Stuart ... Looking Back MITCHELL BREITWEISER, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature (Stanford UP, 2007), pp. 336, cloth, $60.00. According to National Melancholy, American writers believe in what Mitchell Breitweiser concisely identifies as the "not-yet" ...
Modernismo and Modernization
Oct 01, 2007; Mazzucchelli, Aldo ... Modernismo and Modernization ADAM SHARMAN, Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature: From Darío to Carpentier (New York: Palgrave, 2006), pp. 240, cloth, $69.95. In his introduction, Adam Sharman claims for his book the task of "excavating the logic that structures the ...
First Person Sexual
Oct 01, 2007; Davies, J Marina ... First Person Sexual MICHAEL LUCEY, Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Durham: Duke UP, 2006), pp. 336, cloth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. Gide records in his journal that during a discussion of his memoirs, Proust exhorted him, "You can tell anything, ...
