Novel violence : a narratography of Victorian fiction /

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. ℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡...

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Main Author: Stewart, Garrett
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Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009
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