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Re: VN Bibliography: Bell-Villada (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Ellen Pifer, author of the important volume NABOKOV and THE
NOVEL (Harvard UP, 1980)--one of the first critical studies to emphasize
Nabokov's ethical dimension) -- is currently President of the
International Vladimir Nabokov.
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From: Ellen Pifer <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu>
Some of Bell-Villada's comments are cited in my forthcoming essay, "Her
Monster, His Nymphet: Nabokov and Mary Shelley," in the volume
of new essays on VN edited by Julian Connolly (forthcoming from Cambridge
UP, summer 1999). Far from provocative, I found his discussion of VN to
be, for the most part, a rerun of the 50-year-old critical tradition
treating VN as a "mere" aesthete and (in B-V's view) a social-political
reactionary.
Ellen Pifer
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
> Discussions of VN that appear within within the context of books
> treating larger subjects, especially literary theory, often escape the
> attention of VN specialists.
> I call your attention to Gene Bell-Villada's ART FOR ART'S SAKE
> & LITERARY LIFE. How politics and markets helped shape the ideology &
> culture of aestheticism 1790-1900_ (Lincoln & London: U. of Nebraska
> Press, 1996). There are two substantial discussion of VN & his works.
> Prof. Bell-Villada is a provocative writer and his views are certain to
> provoke discussion beween Nabokovians and anti-Nabokovians.
>
>
> D. Barton Johnson
> Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
> Phelps Hall
> University of California at Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106
> Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
> Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
>
NOVEL (Harvard UP, 1980)--one of the first critical studies to emphasize
Nabokov's ethical dimension) -- is currently President of the
International Vladimir Nabokov.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ellen Pifer <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu>
Some of Bell-Villada's comments are cited in my forthcoming essay, "Her
Monster, His Nymphet: Nabokov and Mary Shelley," in the volume
of new essays on VN edited by Julian Connolly (forthcoming from Cambridge
UP, summer 1999). Far from provocative, I found his discussion of VN to
be, for the most part, a rerun of the 50-year-old critical tradition
treating VN as a "mere" aesthete and (in B-V's view) a social-political
reactionary.
Ellen Pifer
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
> Discussions of VN that appear within within the context of books
> treating larger subjects, especially literary theory, often escape the
> attention of VN specialists.
> I call your attention to Gene Bell-Villada's ART FOR ART'S SAKE
> & LITERARY LIFE. How politics and markets helped shape the ideology &
> culture of aestheticism 1790-1900_ (Lincoln & London: U. of Nebraska
> Press, 1996). There are two substantial discussion of VN & his works.
> Prof. Bell-Villada is a provocative writer and his views are certain to
> provoke discussion beween Nabokovians and anti-Nabokovians.
>
>
> D. Barton Johnson
> Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
> Phelps Hall
> University of California at Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106
> Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
> Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
>