... primarily through attacking Indian property law, which has historically excluded women from its purview. Whereas previous criticism has focused on Roy's exploration of female social ostracism, this essay addresses the precarious political, juridical, and economic status of women in the novel. The God...

...Zak Watson This article proposes a new account of the interplay of genre and desire in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote . It claims that Arabella's education, her transition from the rules of romance to those of the novel, consists of her being drawn into the circuit of desire that defines her...

...John Kucich To make this particular fantasy of female political power palatable in a mid-Victorian novel, however, Oliphant had to perform a complex, hybridizing dance with domestic fiction. Her fantasy of female Bildung had to take place “within a domestic frame of reference,” as Armstrong...

... the confusion that spreads from this contradiction. Being doomed to a state of eternal puberty, the novelistic hero cannot go out into the world and take his place in the history of civilization/culture ( Bildung ). This is especially true for the female Bildungsheld , who finds it even harder to find a spot...

...ANN ARDIS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 TAMAR KATZ, Impressionist Subjects: Gender, Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England (Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. 288, cloth, $39.95. Modernizing the Female Subject TAMAR KATZ...

... on women in an unreconstructed liberalism—rather than an entrenched cultural hostility—that can be transformed through female sympathy as the basis for reciprocal familial relations. However, Brontë's and Eliot's depictions actually give rise to a paradox in which male authority relies on female sympathy...

... Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph , Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby , Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse . As the narration of erotic pleasure and erotic danger gets filtered through the intimacy between a female narrator...

...Ann duCille Treating the popular and academic discourse surrounding Toni Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 as a case in point, this essay critiques the ways in which race and gender—“black” and “female”—have been used as loaded signifiers to limit, qualify, segregate...

... foreground the spectacle of reproduction loosed from its putative organic site in the female body and displace it elsewhere—the test tube, the surrogate womb, the male body, and, not insignificantly, the novel. This displacement is both a queering and cripping of normative attitudes toward reproductive...

... female narrator and the title character, built on customary practice and everyday communication, serves as a postcolonial riposte to Bellow's imaginary Africa. © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Adorno Theodor . “Commitment.” Aesthetics and Politics...

... display of female desire delivered at the conclusion of James Joyce's Ulysses by a sleepless Molly Bloom. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Benjamin , Walter . “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations . Ed. Arendt Hannah. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York...

..., repurposing the period look, and enhancing the novels' romance plots, the Austen franchise now attempts to reach a largely female audience across a wide range of exhibition sectors, including in ancillary markets. Indeed, the Austen boom has also gone global, as filmmakers incorporate and indigenize Austen's...

...Jeffrey Allen Tucker Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999) tells the story of a black female elevator inspector who “intuits” the machines' safety. The protagonist searches for both those responsible for the apparent sabotage of an elevator for which she was responsible and the blueprints...

...Shirley Samuels © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 LAUREN BERLANT, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Durham: Duke UP, 2008), pp. 368, cloth, $84.95, paper, $23.95. Political Complaint lauren berlant, The Female...

... and non-canonical novels as well as journals, letters, memoirs, autobiographies, conduct and advice books, law cases, contem- porary scholarship, and women's fashion magazines, Brhneerz Women presents an elabo- rate, supple, and genuinely new taxonomy of female relationships in the period...

... comes to be seen as an admittedly strong current in a much morr complex river running from Nickerson's mid- eighteenth-century female domestic-gothic tradition of detective narratives to Klein et al.'s portrayal of our own turn-of-the-twenty-first-century's explosion in figures and formats...

...JANET C. MYERS Works Cited Archibald , Diana C. “Angel in the Bush: Exporting Domesticity through Female Emigration.” Ed. Kranidis. 228 –47. Brontë , Charlotte . Jane Eyre . New York: Penguin, 1996 . Brontë , Charlotte . Villette . New York: Bantam, 1986...

... and her apparent reinscription of female passivity. Prieto's reading of Oficzo de tinieblas shows how women's identification with NOVEL I FALL 2001 the power of the opposite gender in this text is the reason for their failure to achieve self- expression and independence (207...

... argument itself is flawed because it operates on the mistaken assumption that suffering and empowerment are mutually exclusive. In an effort to disman- tle the rigid moralism underlying many approaches to sentimentalism's love affair with suf- fering, Noble suggests an analogy between female...

... fiction was “a space for religious reflection and for imagining alternative ways of being, believing, and acting in the world” (2). Reed's close readings of sentimental and domestic novels, historical romances, the slave narrative, and spiritualist fiction unfold alternative models of female agency...