Gothic Stories Within Stories: Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900Frame 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ann Radcliffe and the Sublime Real | 21 |
Mary Shelleys Monsters Unbound | 45 |
Melmoth the Wanderer and Confessions of a Justified Sinner | 63 |
Sartor Resartus | 83 |
Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 91 |
The Old Curiosity Shop and Bleak House | 109 |
Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula | 130 |
The Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness | 153 |
Chapter Notes | 165 |
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| Title | Gothic Stories Within Stories: Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900 |
| Author | Clayton Carlyle Tarr |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | McFarland, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1476667489, 9781476667485 |
| Length | 216 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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