Gothic Stories Within Stories: Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900
Author:   Clayton Carlyle Tarr
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9781476667485


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   28 April 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Gothic Stories Within Stories: Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900


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Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of the genre, frame narratives in fact function as a dynamic basis for imaginative variation and are vital to evaluating the diverse Gothic tradition. The juxtaposition between the everyday ""frame world"" of the story and the disturbing embedded narrative allows the monstrous to escape textual confines, forcing the reader to experience the reassurance of the ordinary alongside the horror of the uncanny.

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Author:   Clayton Carlyle Tarr
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9781476667485


ISBN 10:   1476667489
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   28 April 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction 1. A “frame of uncommon size”: Ann Radcliffe and the Sublime Real 2. Go Forth and Prosper: Mary Shelley’s Monsters Unbound 3. Loose Ends: Melmoth the Wanderer and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Interlude. The Fabric of Reality: Sartor Resartus 4. The “science of human brutality”: Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 5. The “romantic side of familiar things”: The Old Curiosity Shop and Bleak House 6. The Descent of Man: Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula Coda. Glory in a Gap: The Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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examines the purpose of framing narratives, or stories within stories, in gothic literature --ProtoView.


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Clayton Carlyle Tarr is an assistant professor at Michigan State University, where he specializes in nineteenth-century British literature. He has published on authors such as Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, and Thomas Carlyle, and on themes ranging from the plague and teeth to bog bodies and disability.

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