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...Stuart Pratt Atkins Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE APPRENTICE NOVELIST GOETHE’S LETTERS, 1765-1767 By STUARTPRATT ATKINS Whereas Goethe’s early development as lyricist and dramatist can be traced in a variety...

.... WILLIAMHALLER Columbia University Tobias Smollett: Traveler-Novelist. By GEORGEM. KAHRL.Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1945. Pp. xxiv + 165. $2.75. It was not the intention of the author to write a coinplete biog- raphy of Smollett or to give a complete analysis of all his...

..., Ilse Graham provides refreshing new points of de- parture and reaffirms Schiller’s validity in modern times. GERHARDBAUMCAERTEL Trent University Stendhal: The Education of a Novelist. By GEOFFREYSTRICKLAND. Cam- bridge...

... ayant beaucoup de semblables, mais comme une personne unique, n’ayant de raison d’exister qu’en soi—une émanation troublante de l’essence particulière à François le Champi . (1.41) [I had not then read any real novels. I had heard it said that George Sand was a typical novelist. This predisposed...

...John Halperin Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 THE NOVELIST AS HEROINE INMANSFIELD PARK A STUDY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY By JOHN HALPEKIN Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s Vanity Fair. Almost everyone in it is selfish-self-absorbed...

... insisted upon. L.\N(.E.Bk K I k.1.Sk.N Universily of Texas ut Austin Madame de Stael, Novelist: The Emergence of the Artist as Woman. By MAIIELYN GUTWIRTH.Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1978. xii + 324...

.... RICARDOGULL~N Un.iwersily of Texas, Austin Litel-atui-e and Resfionsibility: The French Nouelist in the Twenlieth Cen- tury. By KIMADRELL KECK.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969. xvii + 306 pp. $8.50. In a perceptive study of nine French novelists who...

... To the Lighthouse in 192’7, but because he concentrates so intently on the for- mal dimensions of his novelists’ work. Despite his claim to investigate “social” as well as narrative form in the study (p. xii)-and despite some very acute remarks about a variety of early twentieth-century phenomena, from...

... in the distinctively modern literary form a remedy for one of modernity’s characteristic and enduring problems, though it was a rare novelist who followed in his footsteps. But why, in a special issue on inevitability, would there be any reason to reflect on the problem of judgment? As Aristotle ( 1984 : 1112a 17...

... in Darmstadt. EDMUNDE. MILLER University of Maryland Six Scandiilazian Novelists. By ALRIKGVSTAFSON. Published for the American-Scandinavian Foundation by The Princeton Uni- versity Press, 1940. Pp. 367. $3.50. On the Scandinavian...

... “Lohenstein’s Protagonists,”4 has done himself a disservice with this book. DAVIDBRONSEN Washington University Their Proper Sphere: A Study of the Bronte Sisters as Early-Victorian Female Novelists. By INCA-STINAEWBANK. Cambridge: Harvard...

...Dabney Stuart Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE NOVELIST’S COMPOSURE SPEAK, MEMORY AS FICTION By DABNEYSTUART I am tempted to say that Sppak, Memory is the book on which Vlad- imir Nabokov tias...

... culture's end-driven tendencies by taking the viewing process out of the viewer's hands. While readers can read novels as they please, visual technologies function independently of the spectator. From them, James thought, twentieth-century novelists might derive formal strategies to solve the problem...

...Michael Gamer This essay revisits the question of Walter Scott's innovation as a novelist, and Waverley 's status as the first historical novel, by showing the degree to which such markers of reputation were fictions of Scott's own making. The essay begins by examining how Scott's manipulation...

...Bruce Ronda Perry Miller’s 1958 edition of Henry David Thoreau’s “lost journal” for 1840–41, with its long and condescending introduction, prompted the leftist novelist Truman Nelson to engage in a bitter correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks and others, critiquing Miller’s approach to Thoreau...

... Austen, whose Northanger Abbey formulates one aspect of novelistic realism precisely through the avoidance of gothic temporality. Jesse Molesworth is assistant professor of English at Indiana University. His book Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic (2010...

... literature in its years of transition between realism, naturalism, and modernism and that characterized the subgenre of sociological fiction. Gilman’s 1910 novel What Diantha Did models the social rigor that sociological novelists considered essential to the art of fiction. What Diantha Did tracks...

... is, however, an empty quantification of labor’s duration and the enforcement of its equivalence; it is not an extension of self into world. Across his novelistic career Hardy revises the tragic weight given in his early fiction to binding material attachments, so the later novels are, by contrast, tragedies...

... of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary...

... stages occupied by the story’s women. In a militant response, Germaine de Staël’s Corinne refeminizes the novelistic protagonist, investing the role with the developmental imperative of Bildung and the claim on universal human representativeness, realized through the heroine’s artistic vocation. Corinne...