Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel

While narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern texts, they have largely been understudied in Victorian literature. Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel focuses on the centrality of these elements and address the proliferation of multiple narrators in Victorian novels. In Narrative Bonds, Alexandra Valint explores the ways in which the Victorian multi-narrator form moves toward the unity of vision across characters and provides inclusivity in an era of expanding democratic rights and a growing middle class. Integrating narrative theory, gothic theory, and disability studies with analyses of works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Emily Brontë, and Bram Stoker, this comprehensive and illuminating study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure in Victorian novels.

Author: Alexandra Valint
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 03/01/2025
Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780814257791