...Tamara S. Wagner © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Tamara S. Wagner is a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge. She has published articles on nineteenth-century literature as well as on postcolonial fiction and is writing a book on nostalgia in the English novel...

...Sergio J. Pacifici Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE FICTION OF ALBERT0 MORAVIA PORTRAIT OF A WASTELAND By SERCIOJ. PACIFICI The recent translation by Angus Davidson of Alberto Moravia’s first novel, GZi indifferenti (which...

... ; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.” MAURICEJ. QUINLAN Boston College Cooper’s Throry of Fiction: His Prefaces and Their Relation to His Novels. By ARVIDSHULENBERCER. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1955. Pp. vii + 105...

...Robert L. Caserio Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction . By Michaela Bronstein . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xv + 268 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 “Reading” is a mode of criticism, as recent trends—distant reading, surface...

...Andrea Henderson Ultimately, then, this book not only marks points of connection between realist fiction and mathematical probability but shows that the Victorian novel actually developed “in tandem with” the hard sciences (166). Each spoke to the other: “The referential indistinction...

...Marina MacKay Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction . By Catherine Gallagher . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . vii + 359 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 “Nothing I know matters more / than what...

... the political dimensions of Austen’s fictions were fading to obscurity, Gaskell drew on Austen’s portrayal of domestic relationships to underscore their relevance to “public” problems. On this view, the Austenian courtship plot does not contain political anxieties so much as animate them, with the logic...

...Matthew Levay As this assessment should make plain, The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–1950 attests to the enjoyment of fiction—its centrality in readers’ lives as well as the pleasures it can offer those who recognize its affordances and sometimes surprising affiliations...

...Clint Wilson, III [email protected] New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory . By Monika Kaup . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2021 . xiii + 332 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Monika Kaup’s...

...Zarena Aslami [email protected] Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction . By Schaffer Talia . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2021 . xvii + 274 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 In the early phases of the pandemic...

...Daniel DiMassa Abstract Serious fiction, according to Frank Kermode, avoids the apocalyptic paradigm of beginning, middle, and end. Part of the paradigm that escaped Kermode’s attention, however, is the inevitable defeat of evil by forces of good. The present essay inquires after the narratological...

...BRIAN ROSENBERG Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 HISTORICIZING THE NEW HISTORICISM UNDERSTANDING THE PAST IN CRITICISM AND FICTION By BRIANROSENBERG In certain respects...

... minded Spacks, desire addresses the ontology of fiction and, by an extension that she makes repeatedly, the interplay of values in the culture that produces fiction: ‘The word suggests the emotional force implicit in the acts of reading and writing fiction; it provides a means of linking...

.... AUSTINBRIGGS Hamilton College Seductions: Studies in Reading and Culture. By JANE MILLER. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. 194 pp. $22.95. Telling Tales: The Hysteric’s Seduction in Fiction and Theory. By KATHERINECUM- MINGS. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University...

... of such ele- gant treatment. American Catholic Arts and Fictions is a remarkable achieve- ment as well as a historical event. James T. Fisher, Yale University Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Xenzaburo...

... 22.3 doxes of negative theology, which can only seem Iiidicrously fictitious to the nonbeliever-fiction necessarily elaborates structures of narrative that the- ology cannot but denounce as lies. Armed with a rhetorical heritage of pagan historicity, Christianity launched a program...

... The Dilemma of the Modern inJapanese Fiction. By Dennis C. Washburn. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. xi + 314 pages. $30.00. The title of Washburn’s study implies that it deals with a section of Japanese literature from what historians-and literary historians in their wake- have...

..., and at the heart of the deepest anxieties of the body politic. Priscilla Wald, University of Washington New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France. By Lynn A. Higgins. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. ix + 259...

...Garrett Stewart © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-09Stewart.ak 6/1/00 2:30 PM Page 181 The Foreign Offices of British Fiction Garrett Stewart his essay sets itself two interlocked tasks, at cross-purposes only if Twe...

...Jessica Burstein Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars . By Tyrus Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xii + 263 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.4 09 Reviews 10/24/01 5:54 PM Page 453 Reviews...