Publication: Narrative and Its Non-Events: Counterfactual Plotting in the Victorian Novel
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2016-04-22
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Glatt, Carra. 2016. Narrative and Its Non-Events: Counterfactual Plotting in the Victorian Novel. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
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This dissertation examines the role of several types of counterfactual plots in both defining and challenging the borders of nineteenth-century realist fiction. Using texts by Dickens, James, Gaskell and Hardy, I argue for the narrative significance of “active” plot possibilities that, while finally jettisoned by the ascendancy of a triumphant rival, exert an enduring influence on the novels that evoke and discard them.
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Literature, English
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