Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., 2003
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- Title
- Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- Author
- Garrett, Peter K.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801488885
- ISBN 13
- 9780801488887
- Edition
- First Softcover Edition
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- American Literature Studies, English Literature Studies
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, nineteenth-century Gothic fiction repeatedly reflects on narrative force, the power exerted by both writers and readers.
Beginning with Poe's theory and practice of the Gothic tale as an exercise (or fantasy) of authorial power, Garrett then reads earlier eighteenth-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.
Garrett then shows how the great nineteenth-century monster stories Frankenstein, 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.
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About the Author
Peter K. Garrett is Professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Victorian Multiplot Novel and Scene and Symbol from George Eliot to James Joyce and editor of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Dubliners.
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