...Michel Jeanneret; Benjamin Semple Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Michel Jeanneret Commentary on Fiction, Fiction as Commentary ^Zoncerning the general evolution of the commentary on fiction during the Renais­ sance, one essential point seems to be a given and I adopt...

...: The Globalization of Fiction/ the Fiction of Globalization The idea for this special issue of the South Atlan- tic Quarterly emerged out of a question posed...

...Robert L. Caserio Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Robert L. Caserio Supreme Court Discourse vs. Homosexual Fiction 10. A. Miller s essay on the role of the police in Bleak House is already a classic, five years after its appearance in Representations. The stature of the essay...

..., the Hindu Bengalis from the Indian subcontinent. In Lahiri's fiction, death in the adopted land becomes a site for fixing and rooting the migrant into his or her adopted country, a claim final and irrefutable. The deeply personal nature of her strokes brings our attention back to the domestic and quotidian...

...Brian Rosenberg Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Mary Lee Settle and the Tradition of Historical Fiction Brian Rosenberg Historical fiction has for two centuries occupied a paradoxical place in the development of the novel, embodying at once the form at its most grand and most...

...Elgin W. Mellown Shadows of the Past in Contemporary British Fiction . By Higdon David Leon . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. xii , 219 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 84 The South Atlantic Quarterly hardly be blamed...

...William E. Cain The Critic Agonistes: Psychology, Myth, and the Art of Fiction . By Weiss Daniel , Edited by Solomon Eric Arkin Stephen . Foreword by Richard Ellmann. Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 1985 . Pp. xii , 270 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1987...

...Robert Brinkmeyer The Cavalier in Virginia Fiction . By Watson Ritchie Devon Jr. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1985 . Pp. viii , 298 . $32.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 409 switch to song-writing. Chapter 7 analyzes...

...Benjamin Boyce Jane Austen and Mozart: Classical Equilibrium in Fiction and Music . By Wallace Robert K. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1983 . Pp. x , 295 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 231 North American Indians). Recent...

...John Halperin The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly . By Levine George . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1981 . Pp. 357 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 354 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Realistic...

...Philip D. Beidler Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction . By Hellman John . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1981 . Pp. ix , 164 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 470 The South Atlantic Quarterly C. Vann Woodward has recently...

... M. CAPERS Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle. Ian Ousby. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. x, 194. $10.00. We hardly expect a book on something in literature (pets, doctors, light-and-dark) these days, and a book...

... of scholarly workmanship and truly pleasurable reading; the cliche of fiction reviews, that once one picks up this book it is hard to put it aside, is in this instance most appropriate. DUKE UNIVERSITY GLENN NEGLEY A Requiem for the Renascence; The State of Fiction in the Mod­ ern South. By Walter Sullivan...

...Eudora Welty PLACE IN FICTION Eudora Welty PLACE is one of the lesser angels that watch over the racing hand of fiction, perhaps the one that gazes benignly enough from off to one side, while others, like character, plot, symbolic meaning and so on, are doing a good deal of wing-beating about her...

...Sherman Paul The Adventurous Muse: The Poetics of American Fiction 1789–1900 . By Spengemann William C. . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1977 . Pp. ix , 290 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 533 pluralistic nature...

...Philip Hanson Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Antibourgeois Anger: Notes on Fiction as a Guide to a Political Sentiment Philip Hanson Fiction and Political Sentiment The political objectivity of fiction compared with that of social science is remarkable. The political economist...

...Glenn O. Carey Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America . By Reynolds David S. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1981 . Pp. viii , 269 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Book Reviews 347 Faith in Fiction: The Emergence...

...Carol J. Sklenicka Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Samuel Johnson and the Fiction of Activity Carol J. Sklenicka The perennial popularity of Samuel Johnson s little story book, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, would seem to testify to the pleasure it gives...

...Elgin Mellown George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction . By Goode John . New York : Barnes and Noble , 1979 . Pp. 205 . $18.50 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Book Reviews 459 Though Johnson s style is contorted and her arguments left un­ developed, she deserves...

...Gay Wilson Allen The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman’s Legacy in the Personal Epic . By Miller James E. Jr. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1979 . Pp. xvi , 360 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 BOOKS The American Quest...