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Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Peter K. Garrett

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Description:The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between them are actually at work within both. He further shows how, by offering alternative versions of its stories, 19th-century Gothic fiction repeatedly reflects on narrative force, the power exerted by both writers and readers. (or fantasy) of authorial power, Garrett then reads earlier 18th-century and Romantic Gothic fiction for comparable reflexive implications. Throughout, he stresses the ways authors doubled both characters and narrative perspectives to raise issues of power and authority in the tension between central deviant figures and social norms. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula self-consciously link the extremity and isolation of their deviant figures with the social groups they confront. These narratives, he argues, move from a Romantic concern with individual creation and responsibility to a Victorian affirmation of social solidarity that also reveals its dependence on the binding force of exclusionary violence. The final section of the book extends its investigation of Gothic reflections on narrative force into the more realistic social and psychological fiction of Dickens, Eliot and James.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. To get started finding Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between them are actually at work within both. He further shows how, by offering alternative versions of its stories, 19th-century Gothic fiction repeatedly reflects on narrative force, the power exerted by both writers and readers. (or fantasy) of authorial power, Garrett then reads earlier 18th-century and Romantic Gothic fiction for comparable reflexive implications. Throughout, he stresses the ways authors doubled both characters and narrative perspectives to raise issues of power and authority in the tension between central deviant figures and social norms. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula self-consciously link the extremity and isolation of their deviant figures with the social groups they confront. These narratives, he argues, move from a Romantic concern with individual creation and responsibility to a Victorian affirmation of social solidarity that also reveals its dependence on the binding force of exclusionary violence. The final section of the book extends its investigation of Gothic reflections on narrative force into the more realistic social and psychological fiction of Dickens, Eliot and James.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. To get started finding Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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