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Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguist

Title Novel Violence : A Narratography of Victorian Fiction / Garrett Stewart.
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Creation Date [2009]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Backlog Prologue -- Introduction. Narrative Intension -- 1.The Omitted Person Plot -- 2. Attention Surfeit Disorder -- 3. Mind Frames -- 4. Of Time as a River -- 5. Death per Force -- Epilogue / Dialogue -- Notes -- Index
Extent 1 online resource (278 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2009
National Library system number 997010718316305171
MARC RECORDS
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