... 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...

... choice of a method that requires so complete a surrender on our part to the movement of the critic’s mind and so intimate a knowledge of the fictions themselves. HOWARDS. BABB Uniuersity of Carvornia, [mine A Traueler Disguised: A Study...

... both readers and artists alike. ALEXANDERMEDLICOIT, JR. University of Connecticut The Method of Melville’s Short Fiction. By K. BRUCEBICKLEY, JR. Durham: Duke University Press, 1975. xv + 142 pp. $7.75. Although we are told that the...

... reassessment of Defoe, and particularly of his greatest work, Robinson Crusoe. Sill comes to Defoe as a Marxist-or, to be more precise, as a follower of Raymond Williams and of Antonio Gramsci- which gives him two advantages. First, since he believes Defoe’s work, both fictional and nonfictional...

... also be grateful to Jeune for writing well. HAROLDA. WATERS University of Rhode Island Thackeray and the Form of Fiction. By JOHN LOOFBOUROW.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. vi + 236 pp. $5.00. This new book on the art...

...David Daiches Robert Kiely. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. ix + 285 pp. $5.50. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 616 REVIEWS Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure. By ROBERTKIELY...

...Thomas Carmichael Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction . By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxviii + 320 pp. Reviews Alliterative Revivals. By Christine Chism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 327 pp. Contemporary...

...: Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Style (2005). Her current project is a study of financial speculation in Victorian literature. Her essay “`Overpowering Vitality': Nostalgia and Men of Sensibility in the Fiction of Wilkie Collins” appeared in the December 2002 issue of MLQ . “A Strange Chronicle of...

...James Thompson Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property . By Wolfram Schmidgen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 266 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 James Thompson is professor and chair of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

...Judith Wilt Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels . By James Buzard. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. vi + 320 pp. University of Washington 2006 Judith Wilt is Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture at Boston...

...Alexander C. Y. Huang Modern Chinese fiction dealing with cultural others can be taken as a lens through which to reread the cosmopolitan theory. At stake in the debate between communitarianism and liberalism are the viability of single cultural membership and its validity. Lao She's Self-Sacrifice...

...William Egginton The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi + 420 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 William Egginton is professor of German and Romance languages and...

... author, Chinese postmodernism differs from other variants of postmodernism because of its different cultural-historical and literary-historical background. With few exceptions, modernism was a late discovery in China. After 1978 Wang Meng, Zhang Jie, Wang Anyi, and others wrote fiction in a modernist...

...Gerald L. Bruns Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture . By Russell A. Berman. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xxi + 238 pp. University of Washington 2009 Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Emeritus Professor at the University of...

...Nicholas Dames Nicholas Dames is Theodore Kahan Associate Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810 – 1870 (2001) and The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of...

...Roberto M. Dainotto It is often assumed that a special function of imaginative and fictional writing and a special aesthetic value as a distinctive feature of literary prose are the fruits of what has been called the “invention of literature” between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the...

... studies she has published Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the work of David Shahar , with Moshe Ron (2004). Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France . By Samuels Maurice . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . ix + 323 pp...

... collection of essays on South African “histories of the book”; and coeditor of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies. He also writes about South African art and postcolonial queer studies. DOI 10.1215/00267929- 1589212 Ground Zero Fiction: History, Memory, and Representation...

... indeed an important strand of 1960s fiction, especially in the work of John McGahern, this essay argues that it was cross-fertilized by other realist narrative modes, including British documentary writing of the 1950s and 1960s. The Irish New Wave, however, differs in important respects from its British...

...Elena Russo Elena Russo is professor of French literature at Johns Hopkins University. Her latest book is Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (2007). Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel . By Paige Nicholas D...