Review of Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland. Philip Roth Studies (2016). (original) (raw)
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 2014
Her work focuses on the literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, especially women writers. Her most recent publication, "Creole Space: Jamaica, Fallen Women, and British Literature" can be found in the edited collection Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820 (Ashgate, 2013). She is a Managing Editor of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women and the Arts 1640-1830 and is currently finishing her monograph, which explores the role of desire in the development of character in the early novel. She has worked as an Assistant Professor in the United States and a Lecturer in Australia.
Rise of the Novel and bio graphies of some famous writers and their works
In the eighteenth century the years after the forties witnessed a wonderful efflorescence of a new literary genre which was soon to establish itself for all times to come as the dominant literary form. Of course, we are referring here to the English novel which was born with Richardson's Pamela and has been thriving since then.
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2014
Hultquist reviews Rebecca Tierney-Hynes's "Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740" (Palgrave 2012) and Kathleen Lubey's "Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760" (Bucknell, 2012).
Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism: Adultery and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
2015
This course illustrates how literary theory is applied to the nineteenth-century novel. The approach is basically practical, focussing on how formalism, Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis (to name a few schools) have studied fiction, and how you, as students, read both fiction and critical material. The nineteenth-century novel is chosen for two basic reasons: first, for its focus on the modern institutions of life which theory has taken a deep interest in, such as romance, marriage, the family, the nation-state; second, the nineteenth-century novel not only represents the golden age of English literature but it is also the genre and century which all critical schools have arguably felt the need to analyse in great depth.
This essay examines how and to what extent the growth and professionalization of the publishing industry during the nineteenth century created inconsistencies between the text that was originally produced by an author, and the text that eventually appeared as a published book. Drawing on contemporary literary theory’s conflicting views on the status and significance of the author, it attempts a reconciliatory approach that views the author and the literary text as social entities that interact with the reader. On this ground, examples drawn from the publishing industry’s interference with Romantic fragments on the one hand, and Victorian censored texts on the other are examined, in order to highlight, first of all, the ways in which the publishing industry has shaped the nineteenth-century author and his/ her work; subsequently, this analysis helps explore the implications that the mediation of the publishing industry has for the consumption of nineteenth-century literature nowadays.