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Gothic stories within stories : frame narratives and realism in the genre, 1790-1900 / Clayton Carlyle Tarr.
- Title
- Gothic stories within stories : frame narratives and realism in the genre, 1790-1900 / Clayton Carlyle Tarr.
- Author
- Tarr, Clayton Carlyle
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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| Text | Request in advance | PR830.T3 T37 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- v, 208 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. 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"--
- Subject
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A "frame of uncommon size": Ann Radcliffe and the sublime real -- Go forth and prosper: Mary Shelley's monsters unbound -- Loose ends: Melmoth the wanderer and Confessions of a justified sinner -- Interlude. The fabric of reality: Sartor resartus -- The "science of human brutality": Wuthering heights and The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- The "romantic side of familiar things": The old curiosity shop and Bleak house -- The descent of man: Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula -- Coda. Glory in a gap: The turn of the screw and Heart of darkness.
- ISBN
- 9781476667485
- 1476667489
- OCLC
- 963358971
- SCSB-11988662
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library