Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.
Backlog/prologue: fiction in its prose -- Introduction: narrative intension -- The omitted person plot: little Dorrit's fault -- Attention surfeit disorder: an "interregnum" on Poescript vs. plot -- Mind frames: Anne Brontë's exchange economy -- Of time as a river: the mill of desire -- Death per force: Tess's destined end -- Epilogue/dialogue: novel criticism as media study.
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Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. ℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡ Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguistic narratives collide with.
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