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Book synopsis

Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".

Book details

• Full title: Serious Pleasures of Suspense
• Subtitle: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
• Author: Levine, Caroline (Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, USA)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780813922171
• ISBN: 9780813922171
• ID: 01030720
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Weight: 517 g
• Dimensions: 239 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. September 2003

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