Glatt, Carra2017-07-252016-052016-04-222016Glatt, Carra. 2016. Narrative and Its Non-Events: Counterfactual Plotting in the Victorian Novel. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493430This 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.application/pdfenLiterature, EnglishThesis or Dissertation2018-05-01