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THE MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK. JUNE 9-SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 Much like one of Henry James's novels, the Morgan Library's exhibit Henry James and American Painting avoids narrative convention and tells [...]

Colletta, Lisa, ed. The Legacy of the Grand Tour: New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2015. 206+xx. Hardcover. $75. E-book. $71. From the mid-eighteenth century [...]

'His is a writing that does not reject, delete, eliminate but one that absorbs, recycles, accommodates,' says Peter Boxall of Don DeLillo (43). Here we face fiction that attempts to [...]

Caswell, Lucy Shelton, and Jared Gardner, eds. Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and INKS, 1994-1997. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2017. 299 pages. Paperback. $27.95. At first glance, Drawing the [...]

In her 2006 essay 'Writing as a Child: Lowell's Poetic Penmanship,' Rei Terada called for a greater '[a]ttention to [Robert] Lowell's allegorization of the material forms in which his own [...]

[W]e know that the aim of those who try to carry out these attacks is to force us to live in fear and thereby amplify the effects of their attacks, [...]

At first glance, few would call David Cronenberg's A History of Violence (2005) a Western, set as it is in small-town Indiana, with a lone horse viewed only briefly and [...]

Andrew Dominik's film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) can be interpreted as an attempt to critically redefine masculinity in the Western genre through the [...]

Emma Hamilton. Masculinities in American Western Films: A Hyper-Linear History. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016. 280 pages. Paperback. $67.95. Emma Hamilton's study constitutes a valuable contribution to conceptualizing the way past [...]

Victoria Lamont. Westerns: A Women's History. Postwestern Horizons Series. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016. 194 pages. Hardcover. $55. Victoria Lamont's Westerns: A Women's History is a book with a [...]

In his 1930 epic poem The Bridge, Hart Crane codified the Algonquin 'princess' Pocahontas as the mythical mother of the USA. This reading of Pocahontas--as a symbol of the coming [...]

INTRODUCTION The family is crucial for both the narrative strategies and ideological concerns of the Western genre. The plot variant tracing the relations between the Western hero and different family [...]

The independently produced The Keeping Room (2014), based on a debut script by Julia Hart and directed by Daniel Barber, is an uncompromisingly violent film set during the last days [...]

Voller, Jack G. (ed). The Graveyard School: An Anthology. Richmond, VA: Valancourt Books, 2015. 271 pages. Trade Paper. $19.99. There has been a revival of scholarly interest in eighteenth-century graveyard [...]

The editors of Papers on Language and Literature extend their thanks to those who have given freely of their time and expertise in the reading of manuscripts submitted to the [...]

Now I find that once more I have shrunk To an interloper, robber of dead men's dream, I had read in books that art is not easy But no one [...]

ANDREW'S BRAIN AND THE CODIFICATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY Andrew's Brain (2014), Doctorow's last novel, is a very complex work, dense with cultural references and metafictional hints about itself and [...]

Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Raleigh: Duke UP, 2016. Print. 175 pages. Paperback. $22.95. Christina Sharpe's In the Wake begins with death; from here she theorizes [...]

Fitzsimons, Eleanor. Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2015. 372 pages. Hardcover. $32.50. This is a fascinating moment in the [...]

If the last half of the nineteenth century in Europe featured increasing freedom of movement for the lower classes, liberating them 'from the feudal shackles that had once bound them [...]

The Woodlanders A THOMAS HARDY SOCIETY STUDY DAY In association with The University of Exeter. The Corn Exchange, Dorchester, Dorset, England. 22 April 2017 On Saturday, 22 April, the inaugural [...]

Widmayer, Anne F. Theatre and the Novel, from Behn to Fielding. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2015. 263 + xii pages. Paperback. $78. In the early [...]

In the middle of my forehead I have one eye, so what? Does not the Sun See all things here on earth from his high Heaven? And the great Sun [...]

Alber, Jan. Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016. 330 pages. Hardcover. $55.00. In narrative theory, the subfield of unnatural narratology has carved [...]

Using an ecofeminist lens shows how Andrew Marvell's Fairfax poems employ traditional constructions of nature as feminine in order to shore up the power of the patriarchal subject. But this [...]

In his 1971 autobiography Born to Rebel, civil rights leader Benjamin E. Mays writes at length about his experiences with segregated health care in the South. In a chapter describing [...]

Hutson, Lorna. Circumstantial Shakespeare. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. 190 pages. Hardcover. $45. In the same way a vivid watercolor overlay can reinvigorate an illustration from 1830 -- as in [...]

Gunn, Robert Lawrence. Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands. New York: New York UP, 2015. 241 + xiii pages. Paperback. $28. Robert Lawrence [...]

Don Quixote resists answers. In it, according to Tom Lathrop, 'when something--anything--is stated, sooner or later it will be contradicted' (10). Lathrop's is an amplified articulation of the dialectic nature [...]

The speaker of Thomas Gray's 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' intends to write the history of his adult suffering, but his return to Eton reveals that the [...]

For Philip Roth's When She was Good (1967) and 'The Conversion of the Jews' (1958), ideas about liberty, tyranny, and intellectual autonomy are important, especially, as we shall see, as [...]

A generation of writers and critics, including Gayatri Spivak and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have urged decolonization and the critique of lingering forms of imperialism around the globe. In the age [...]

VIOLENCE IN UNDERSTANDING Perhaps no other author has constructed such a powerful testament to the theme of failure than Conrad. While this theme manifested throughout the author's life, his fiction [...]

The article explores detective fiction as a literary genre focusing on the novel "Dragon Bones" by Lisa See. Topics include a definition of detective fiction according to "The Foreign International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations," how the genre was born, examples of postcolonial detective narratives that translate foreign locations to local readership such as Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" and the Chinese protagonist in See's "Dragon Bones."

The article deals with strangers and trespassers as essential characters of a crime fiction. Topics include the potential of crime fiction to promote social criticism, some classical titles with dominant feature of strangeness such as Patricia Highsmith's "Strangers on the Train" and Bill Pronzini's "Strangers," the association of the stranger with binary relationships, and the implications of the critical potential of strangeness and trespassing ingrained in women's crime fiction.

Set in early 1990s rural Ireland, Colm Toibm's The Blackwater Lightship concerns itself with three generations of a family and their need to overcome old conflicts. In the novel, Declan's [...]

DeCoste, D. Marcel. The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh: Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 196 pages. Hardback $83.96. Evelyn Waugh is a figure of singular importance [...]

Ian McEwan's Solar has received wide critical attention since its publication in 2010, perhaps due to its focus on climate change, an issue that is often in the headlines. Graeme [...]

The family is crucial for both the narrative strategies and ideological concerns of the Western genre. The plot variant tracing the relations between the Western hero and different family members [...]

Despite its relative unpopularity, Robert Penn Warren would always list the 1963 novel, Flood, along with All the King's Men and World Enough and Time, as one of the texts [...]

Coburn, Melissa. Raceand Narrativein Italian Women's Writing Since Unification. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013. 127 pages. Hardcover. $69. 'With her volume Race and Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since [...]

James M. Cain's fourth novel, published in 1941, has created difficulties for critics and readers from the start. Cain is best known as the author of crime fiction classics, The [...]

In his controversial essay, 'Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel' (November 1989), Tom Wolfe seems baffled as to why contemporary writers have failed to [...]

Meyer-Palmedo, Ingeborg, ed. Correspondence, 1904-1938: Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud. Trans. Nick Somers. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2014. 400 pages. Hardcover. $45. 'I can see from you how old I [...]

No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out the place. Andrew Marvell, 'Upon Appleton House' In their respective fictions, both Carr and Hemingway have their protagonists attempt to [...]

The article discusses the highlights of the online British Association for Victorian Studies Conference titled "Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century" held from June 23 to 26, 2021. The keynote speech on feminist Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler was delivered by professor Margaret Stetz. Among the themes of the panel discussions and plenary lecture were women and the press, tradition and female slapstick. Also noted is a stand-up performance by Iszi Lawrence at the conference.