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

Original study of narrative technique in Victorian fiction from Charlotte Brontë to H. G. Wells.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Keen, Suzanne Professor Keen, Suzanne Keene
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780521583442
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58344-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 574 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies