Victorian Renovations of the Novel - Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation

Klappentext Original study of narrative technique in Victorian fiction from Charlotte Bront to H. G. Wells. Zusammenfassung This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels shows Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Disraeli, Hardy, Kingsley, Trollope, and Wells negotiating the boundaries of representation to reveal subjects (notably sexuality and social class) which contemporary critics sought to exclude from the realm of the novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Narrative annexes: altered spaces, altered modes; 2. Victorian critics, narrative annexes, and prescriptions for the novel; 3. Norms and narrow spaces: the gendering of limits on representation; 4. Narrative annexes, social mobility and class anxiety; 5. Older, deeper, further: narrative annexes and the extent of the condition of England; 6. Victorian annexes and modern form; Notes; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Suzanne Keen, Suzanne (Washington and Lee University Keen, Suzanne Professor Keen
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2005
• EAN: 9780521021470
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02147-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies