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This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Narrative expansions - The Story So Far...
ARMELLE PAREY
PART I
Prequels
1 Prequel Ontology and Temporality: The Thresholds of John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius
BEN DAVIES
2 "Wide Sargasso Sea as a Prequel to Jane Eyre: From Visuality to Iconicity" (1966)
ANNE-LAURE FORTIN-TOURNÈS
3 Literary Filiations and Textual Archeology: Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child
FRANÇOISE KRÁL
PART II
Coquels
4 A Coquel Set ‘far away, where the fighting was’: On Geraldine Brooks’ March and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women"
CATHERINE PADMORE
5 Servants with a Voice in Jo Baker’s Longbourn, a Coquel to Pride and Prejudice
ARMELLE PAREY
6 Sensibly Organized: Filling in Gaps with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
KATHERINE MCCAIN
PART III
Sequels
7 The Neighborly Mr. Ripley: Patricia Highsmith’s Suburban Sequels
PAUL THIFAULT
8 Julian Barnes and the Contemporary English Sequel
MERRITT MOSELEY
9 Messy Multiplicity: Strategies for Serialisation in New Adult Fiction
JODI MCALISTER
10 P. D. James’s Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), a Sequel with Many Twists
ISABELLE ROBLIN
PART IV
Prequels, Coquels, Sequels and Beyond
11 Uncanny Repetitions: The Generative Power of the "Reader, I Married Him" Mantra in Tracy Chevalier’s Anthology of Short Stories
GEORGES LETISSIER
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Armelle Parey is assistant professor at the University of Caen-Normandie, France. She has published a number of articles on narrative endings, memory and rewritings of the past in contemporary English-speaking fiction. She has co-edited collections of essays and guest-edited special issues on the question of narrative closure in fiction and film: Re-Writing Jane Eyre (La Revue LISA 4.4, 2006); Happy Endings and Films (Houdiard, 2010); Literary Happy Endings, Closure for Sunny Imaginations (Shaker Verlag, 2012); L’Inachevé ou l’ère des possibles dans la littérature anglophone, Récits ouverts et incomplets (Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2014); Character Migration in Anglophone Literature (E-rea 13.1, 2015). She is currently co-editing a collection on screen adaptations of literary endings. She has also guest-edited with Isabelle Roblin: A.S. Byatt, Before and after Possession: Recent Critical Approaches (Book Practices and Textual Itineraries 8, Presses Universitaires de Nancy-Editions de Lorraine, 2017).
Summary
This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text.
