Novel violence : a narratography of Victorian fiction / Garrett Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Garrett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Violence in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguist

Contents:

Backlog \ prologue: fiction in its prose

Introduction: narrative intension

The omitted person plot: little Dorrit's fault

Attention surfeit disorder: an "interregnum" on Poescript vs. plot

Mind frames: Anne Bronte's exchange economy

Of time as a river: the mill of desire

Death per force: Tess's destined end

Epilogue / Dialogue: novel criticism as media study.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612267147

9781282267145

1282267140

9780226774602

0226774600

OCLC:

437034068