This book contributes to the important attempt that critics such as ElaineScarry and Peter Brooks are now making to return aesthetic questions to thecenter of l... » 

This book contributes to the important attempt that critics such as ElaineScarry and Peter Brooks are now making to return aesthetic questions to thecenter of literary studies. Myra Jehlen writes throughout with clarity graceand an utter absence of jargon. Her endnotes show how well she knows thescholarship on Flaubert James and Nabokov but she lets the scholarship stayin the notes and allows her own intelligence to work directly on thesefictions.Michael Gorra Smith College «