...: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989 . Blatchford , Robert . A Bohemian Girl and McGinnis . London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1899 . Brooks , Henry S. “A Catastrophe in Bohemia.” A Catastrophe in Bohemia and Other Stories . New York: Charles...

... of novel production, the girl propels his novels through their marriage plot but can also clog this narrative by failing to form a pair. Despite Trollope's distaste for his popular heroine, Lily Dale, this girl—who buys herself a pair of shoes rather than pairing herself in marriage—may be Trollope's most...

... Tom’s Cabin . Ed. Eric J. Sundquist New York: Cambridge UP, 1986 . 107 –34. Jacobs , Harriet . Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself . 1860/61. Ed. Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987 . Johnson , Jerah . “Colonial New Orleans: A Fragment...

... . Trans. Elsie Clews Parsons. New York: Holt, 1903 . Troy , Nancy J . “The Theatre of Fashion: Staging Haute Couture in Early 20th Century France.” Theatre Journal 53 . 1 ( 2001 ): 1 -32. Sleep Deprived and Ultramodern: How Novels Turned Dream Girls...

... and sustains the millennial Jane Austen mania. Adapting Austen's narratives more freely than did the 1990s versions, these films hope to capture the same crossover, multigenerational, mixed-sex audience yet also seek to market Austen for a new mass cohort of teenaged girls. Updating the stars' images...

... in the nation's cultural and political life, when forms of political engagement, democratic or anti-democratic, were at issue: Mori Ogai's 1890 The Dancing Girl , in the first mature bloom of Japan's cultural modernity and the formative years of a new democratic state; Natsume Soseki's 1914 Kokoro , during...

... intangibility. Still, the true miracle in the novel is the reformation caused by the girl's superfluous writing. By thus staging a fable of domestication through verbal manners, Pamela contributes, decisively but problematically, to the consolidation of domestic fiction. Both the residual omnipresence...

... choices in radically minimal and/or highly codified settings. I focus here on the most prevalent cultural form in the microeconomic mode, the survival game, as manifested in Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel Gone Girl (2013). By examining the novel's use of the survival game as a response...

... of Pity as well as The Post Office Girl and Chess , this article interprets Zweig's epigraph as a commentary on narrative as well as interpersonal forms of engagement, centered upon his conception of the relationship between author/narrator and suffering protagonist. Drawing on the work of David Rosen...

... jeunes filles en fleur . À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (in English, either In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower or Within a Budding Grove , depending on which translation you might be reading) comes in two parts. The second part is called “Noms de pays: Le pays” (Place-Names...

... on “the white girl.” In 1859–60, Wilkie Collins serialized The Woman in White, one of the inau- gural sensation fictions, an event emerging in a mechanical whirl of new mass culture. In October 1860, Dion Boucicault’s drama, The Colleen Bawn, translatable from the Irish as the “fair” or “white” girl...

...Sonia Di Loreto [email protected] Pamela L. Cheek , Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century ( Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2019 ), pp. 280 , cloth, $79.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023...

.... This problem is worked out in what appears to be a strange interlude in the novel's plot, a chapter devoted to the description of a Greek marble relief that depicts a slave girl kissing a dove. In the scene, Reno is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Sandro, her lover, and Ronnie, her ex-lover. The two men...

... girls run after military officers in an embarrass- ing manner, and Elizabeth, who deflects this jab laughingly, and that’s all there is to it. Nobody else can hear them; at least nobody is shown to overhear their conversation. If we map out this scene in terms of its embedded mental states, we...

..., becomes rather an explosion of narrative voice. Like Tiresias, I was first one thing and then the other. I’ve been ridiculed by class­ mates, guinea-pigged by doctors, palpated by specialists, and researched by the March of Dimes. A red-headed girl from Grosse Pointe fell in love with me...

... turns the irony on its head (if he did not, he would not be the writer he is) and observes that the young girl from Cachoeira had nothing to learn from her Roman predecessor when it came to bravery: Martinha took her revenge into her own hands, whereas Lucretia entrusts vengeance to her husband...

... If the Shoe Fits . . . Trollope and the Girl 268 patricia e. chu D(NA) Coding the Ethnic: Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex 278 amanda claybaugh The Consular Service and US Literature: Nathaniel...

.... Niluta Khrushchev, 1964 Potboilers What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "The Bell Jar?" Haunting Ameri- can classic? Girl on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Flawed first novel? Not her again! For many people the answer lies somewhere between...

... of girlhood and adolescence. Virginia Woolf, on the other hand, insists on the con- tinuity between girl and mature writer: “The child who formed her sentences so finely when she was fifteen never ceased to form them” (142).A sentence, of course, is also a type of period: for Woolf, those teenage...

... a gargantuan poor woman. Yaeger argues that this "giantess is the terrible harbinger of change for a demure southern girl" (118) who has internalized the southern myth of the fragile, racially pure, powerless, intensely feminine body that must be protected by white mm, particularly from "race-mixing...