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Victorian Renovations of the Novel - Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Hardcover, New)
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Victorian Renovations of the Novel - Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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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 Bronte, 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.
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