...Michel Jeanneret; Benjamin Semple 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 this as a point of depar­ ture: the gloss which...

...: 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...

..., 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...

...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...

...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...

...George J. Worth Edwardian Fiction . By Hunter Jefferson . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1982 . Pp. xi , 280 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 119 principles derived from it are right or that the application...

...Harriet Blodgett Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Enduring Ties: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary English Fiction by Women Harriet Blodgett The memorable Mrs. Bennet and her five daughters aside, consanguine mother-daughter relationships have not been prominent in English...

...Edward Baugh Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Edward Baugh The Poet s Fiction of Self: The Schooner Flight l^erek Walcott s poetry constitutes an ongoing fiction of himself, and The Schooner Flight is a definitive embodiment of this idea and a land­ mark moment...

... as it lapses into a self-proclaimed irrele­ vance. WELLESLEY COLLEGE WILLIAM E. CAIN George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction. By John Goode. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1979. Pp. 205. $18.50. George Gissing announces in The Odd Women (1893) that for woman the greatest movement of our time . . . [is] emancipating...

...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...

...Wallace Jackson The Gothic Tradition in Fiction . By MacAndrew Elizabeth . New York : Columbia University Press , 1979 . Pp. ix , 289 . $18.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 239 tions about, for example, the nature of Mandeville s opposition...

...James Olney Black Fiction . By Rosenblatt Roger . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1974 . Pp. 211 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 261 Black Fiction. By Roger Rosenblatt. Cambridge: Harvard Univer­ sity Press, 1974. Pp. 211. $8.50...

...James R. Kincaid Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle . Ousby Ian . Cambridge, Mass. and London : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. x , 194 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Book Reviews 383 though objective...

...C. Hugh Holman A Requiem for the Renascence: The State of Fiction in the Modern South . By Sullivan Walter . Mercer University Lamar Lectures, No. 18 . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1976 . Pp. xxiv , 81 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977...

...Eudora Welty Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 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...

...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...

...Paul Stein Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Cooper s Later Fiction: The Theme of Becoming Paul Stein The publication of Precaution in 1820 began for James Fenimore Cooper a thirty-year career of uninterrupted writing activity. Despite his announcement in 1834 in A Letter...