...Jordan Brower Unlike, say, film noir, a genre invented post hoc by critics, novelization has long been understood as a phenomenon and a market category by practitioners. Therefore, to accomplish his laudable goal, Baetens must formulate a theory that can accommodate both the roman de gare...

.... GLENN HUGHES University of Washington What’s in a Novel. By HELEN E. HAINES. New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. Pp. xiv + 283. $2.75. The Economic Novel in America. By WALTER FULLER TAYLOR. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1942. Pp. xii + 378...

... On Not Being Someone Else. His essay “Perfectly Helpless” appeared in the March 2002 issue of MLQ. University of Washington 2007 How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900 . By Nancy Armstrong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. x + 191 pp. The Body...

...Juliet Shields Orr’s focus on the material characteristics of novels and the conditions of their publication sheds light on who might have bought them and why, but the conclusions drawn from her meticulous research are sometimes overstated. Orr may have found “no distinction in price between...

..., rather different study. A. S. G. EDWARDS University of Victmk B@we Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Faction. By J. PAULHUNTER. New York: Norton, 1990. xxv + 421 pp. $25.00. Desire and Tmth: Functions of Plot...

...Ros Ballaster Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain,1684–1750. By William B. Warner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi + 325 pp. $48.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-05Reviews.cs 11/13/00 2:08 PM Page...

...Neil Lazarus Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel . By Eleni Coundouriotis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. x + 211 pp.$49.50 cloth, $16.50 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-05Reviews.cs 11/13/00 2:08 PM Page 683...

...Maria DiBattista The Novel in England, 1900–1950: History and Theory . By Robert L. Caserio. New York: Twayne, 1999. xii + 441 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.2-04 Reviews 4/20/01 3:02 PM Page 189 Reviews Shakespeare after Theory...

...Barbara M. Benedict The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot . By Leah Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. vii +224 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas...

...Bradford Mudge The English Novel in History, 1700-1780 . By John Richetti. London:Routledge, 1999. x + 290 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.4 09 Reviews 10/24/01 5:54 PM Page 453 Reviews Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History...

... (September 1997). Historical Difference As Immortality in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel Ted Underwood remarkable number of mid-nineteenth-century historical novels A open by comparing historical imagination to the reanimation of the dead. Often the comparison is embodied in a frame...

...Barbara Fuchs Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World . By Diana de Armas Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xv + 254 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. By Diana de Armas Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press...

...Christian Thorne © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Christian Thorne is assistant professor of English at Syracuse University. Providence in the Early Novel, or Accident If You Please Christian Thorne L et’s start with a puzzle. In the opening pages of William...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews . By Irene Tucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiv + 311 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford, Calif...

...: Representing Catholicism in Southern Literature and working on an examination of Flannery O'Connor's critique of Enlightenment philosophy. Elizabeth Spencer, the White Civil Rights Novel, and the Postsouthern Thomas F. Haddox uring the 1940s, around the time that Allen Tate looked back...

... Photo Synthesis (1999), and of a forthcoming book,The Look of Reading, 1514-1990, about the evolution of the painted scene of reading. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Review Essay Metallusion: The Used, the Renewed, and the Novel Garrett Stewart Allusion to the Poets...

...Juliet Shields Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640 – 1940 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. University of Washington 2009 Juliet Shields is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington...

...Ina Ferris This essay contends that Scott's historical novels respond to the widespread sense of displacement in postrevolutionary Europe by activating and rewriting the figure of the remnant. As remnant tales, his novels are less about the loss of the past or its relationship to the present than...

...Christopher L. Hill In the decades following the publication of Emile Zola's novel Nana (1880), “Nana figures” resembling Zola's heroine appeared in fiction around the world. The history of the Nana figure contradicts current models for the study of world literature, based on the diffusion of forms...

...Christopher Lane Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel . By Kent Puckett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 177 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Christopher Lane is professor of English and Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature...