{"product_id":"narrative-and-its-nonevents-carra-glatt-9780813948706","title":"Narrative and Its Nonevents: The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel. The description may sound absurd, yet consideration of alternatives to a given state of affairs is crucial to our understanding of a novel. Plot emerges out of the gradual elimination of possibilities, from the revelation, on the first page of a work, that we are in nineteenth-century London and not sixteenth-century Paris, to the final disclosure that Pip returns home too late to marry Biddy but is now free to pursue his lost love Estella.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough careful examination of the plots of such classics as Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations, \u003c\/i\u003e Charlotte Brontë's \u003ci\u003eVillette, \u003c\/i\u003e Wilkie Collins's \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone, \u003c\/i\u003e Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice, \u003c\/i\u003e Henry James's \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors, \u003c\/i\u003e Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003ci\u003eMary Barton, \u003c\/i\u003e and others, Glatt argues for the central role of these \"unwritten plots\" in Victorian narrative construction. Abandoning the allegorical mode--in which characters are bound by fixed identities to reach a predetermined conclusion--and turning away from classical and historical plots with outcomes already known to audiences, the realist novel of the Victorian era was designed to simulate the openness and uncertainty of ordinary human experience. We are invested in these stories of David Copperfield or Elizabeth Bennet or Lucy Snowe in part because we cannot be entirely sure how those stories will end. As Glatt demonstrates, the Victorian novel is characterized by a proliferation of possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carra Glatt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813948703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813948706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Carra Glatt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44919595368703,"sku":"9780813948706","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d53d04ba-751a-45f6-ac91-6fd56c821c13.jpg?v=1710358972","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrative-and-its-nonevents-carra-glatt-9780813948706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}