Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel

Engraved Narratives
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-00702-5
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zigarovich, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Laboriously Constructed Skeleton': Retrospection, Absence and Obituary in Villette 'It sounds as hollow as a coffin': The Empty Tomb in Bleak House Wilkie Collins, Narrativity, and Epitaph Memorialization and Endlessness in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend Edwin Drood: The Seminal Missing Body

Über Autor(innen)

Jolene Zigarovich is a research assistant professor in the Department of English at Claremont Graduate University.