Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives
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Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives asks its reader: Why do Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins see the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? What does it mean to have an enigmatic ending? And what happens when the mortality of a character is left in our hands? Beginning with an exploration of narrative deferment, suspended mourning, and incomplete burials, Jolene Zigarovich uniquely argues that the missing body plot dramatizes the desire for cultural stability and religious certainty, and that the epitaph becomes the narrative model for rhetorical deaths. Drawing from theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Paul de Man, this study maintains that the narrating of death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an increasingly industrial and destabilizing culture. -- Provided by the publisher
Keywords
Brontë, Charlotte, -- 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation, Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Wilkie, -- 1824-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9781137007025
Publication Date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
City
New York
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Object Description
viii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Zigarovich, Jolene, "Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives" (2012). Faculty Book Gallery. 455.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/455
