Narrative and its nonevents : the unwritten plots that shaped Victorian realism / Carra Glatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glatt, Carra, 1987- author.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series.

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In Narrative and Its Nonevents, Carra Glatt argues for the central role of non-actualized or "unwritten plots" in Victorian narrative construction. Abandoning the allegorical mode, in which characters are bound by fixed identities to reach a predetermined conclusion, and turning away from classical and historical plots with outcomes already known to audiences, the realist novel of the Victorian Era is designed to simulate the openness and uncertainty of ordinary human experience. We are invested in the stories of a Crusoe or Pamela or Tom Jones in part because we can't be entirely sure how those stories will end. As Glatt demonstrates, the Victorian novel is characterized by a proliferation of possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Seeing shadows: the romantic underplots of Victorian realism

Raising the veil: horror by proxy in the sensational novel

"A quite other than self": Henry James and the proxy narrative

Fancying the delight : hypothetical realism in The Woodlanders and Mary Barton

Epilogue: returning Dickens to the map.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Glatt, Carra Narrative and Its Nonevents

ISBN:

9780813948713

OCLC:

1348391118