Novel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel is accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The over
Examining depiction of orphans in 18th-century novels, Nixon (English, U. of Massachusetts-Boston) finds that the literary figure of the abandoned, destitute, urban orphan largely appears a century la
Stop the HurtingMary Pipher's bestselling Reviving Ophelia triggered widespread interest in the culture of preteen and teenage girls and the seeming epidemic of relational aggression (bullying) among
