1st Edition
Master Narratives Tellers and Telling in the English Novel
Edited By Richard Gravil
Copyright 2001
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Authors whose works are discussed in this collaborative book, covering a 'long' nineteenth century, include Sterne, Fielding, Scott, Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Gaskell, Dickens, George Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Lawrence. Most of the chapters focus on a single work, among them Tristram Shandy, Wuthering Heights, Bleak House, Middlemarch and Lord Jim, asking why, in the end, does this... Read more
Contents: Introduction; How pleasant to meet Mr. Fielding: the narrator as hero in Tom Jones, W.B. Hutchings; ’Where then lies the difference?’: the (ante)-postmodernity of Tristram Shandy, Jayne Lewis; Old Mortality: editor and narrator, Mary Wedd; Mathilda - who knew too much, Frederick Burwick; ’Perswasion’ in Persuasion, Jane Stabler; Wuthering Heights as bifurcated novel, Frederick Burwick; Negotiating Mary Barton, Richard Gravil; Nell, Alice, Lizzie: three sisters amid the grotesque, Alan Shelston; The androgyny of Bleak House, Richard Gravil; Middlemarch and ’the Home Epic’, Nicola Trott; The ghost of doubt: writing speech and language in Lord Jim, Gerard Barrett; Liking or disliking: Woolf, Conrad, Lawrence, Michael O’Neill; Index.
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Richard Gravil
