Gothic Stories Within Stories

Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6748-5
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarr, Clayton Carlyle

Über Autor(innen)

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.