Victorian Renovations of the Novel Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation

Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation By Suzanne Keen
1998 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0521583446 | PDF | 15 MB
This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of "narrative annexes" whereby unexpected characters, impermissible subjects and Description-changing events enter fictional worlds that otherwise exclude them, challenging Victorian cultural and literary norms. Original readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Disraeli, Hardy, Kingsley, Trollope and Wells show these writers negotiating the boundaries of representation to reveal subjects (notably sexuality and social class) that contemporary critics sought to exclude from the realm of the novel.