Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives

Zigarovich, J.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-08-06

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349435210

DOI: 10.1057/9781137007032

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 199