Victorian renovations of the novel :
Keen, Suzanne.
Victorian renovations of the novel : narrative annexes and the boundries of representation / Suzanne Keen. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 15 . - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.
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.
This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of 'narrative annexes' whereby unexpected characters, impermissible subjects and plot-changing events are introduced within fictional worlds which otherwise exclude them. They are marked by the crossing of borders into previously unrepresented places and new genres or modes, challenging Victorian cultural and literary norms. Suzanne Keen's original readings of novels by Charlotte Bront�e, Dickens, Disraeli, Hardy, Kingsley, Trollope, and Wells show these writers negotiating the boundaries of representation to reveal in narrative annexes the subjects (notably sexuality and social class) which contemporary critics sought to exclude from the realm of the novel. Fears of disease, of working men, of Popery, of dark-skinned 'others', of the poor who toil and starve in close proximity to the rectories, homes, clubs and walled gardens of Victorian polite society draw readers down narrow alleys, through thorny hedges, across desolate heaths, into narrative annexes.
0585000506 9780585000503 0511000790 9780511000799 9780521583442 0521583446
1800-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mimesis in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mimesis in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Mimesis in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR871 / .K44 1998eb
823/.809355
Victorian renovations of the novel : narrative annexes and the boundries of representation / Suzanne Keen. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 15 . - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.
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.
This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of 'narrative annexes' whereby unexpected characters, impermissible subjects and plot-changing events are introduced within fictional worlds which otherwise exclude them. They are marked by the crossing of borders into previously unrepresented places and new genres or modes, challenging Victorian cultural and literary norms. Suzanne Keen's original readings of novels by Charlotte Bront�e, Dickens, Disraeli, Hardy, Kingsley, Trollope, and Wells show these writers negotiating the boundaries of representation to reveal in narrative annexes the subjects (notably sexuality and social class) which contemporary critics sought to exclude from the realm of the novel. Fears of disease, of working men, of Popery, of dark-skinned 'others', of the poor who toil and starve in close proximity to the rectories, homes, clubs and walled gardens of Victorian polite society draw readers down narrow alleys, through thorny hedges, across desolate heaths, into narrative annexes.
0585000506 9780585000503 0511000790 9780511000799 9780521583442 0521583446
1800-1899
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mimesis in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mimesis in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Mimesis in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR871 / .K44 1998eb
823/.809355