{"product_id":"novel-violence-garrett-stewart-9780226774589","title":"Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In \u003ci\u003eNovel Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguistic narratives collide with the stories that give them context, he makes a powerful case for the centrality of verbal conflict to the experience of reading Victorian novels. He also maps his finely wrought argument on the spectrum of influential theories of the novel--including those of Georg Lukács and Ian Watt--and tests it against Edgar Allan Poe's antinovelistic techniques. In the process, Stewart shifts critical focus toward the grain of narrative and away from more abstract analyses of structure or cultural context, revealing how novels achieve their semantic and psychic effects and unearthing, in prose, something akin to poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Garrett Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226774589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226774589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009","brand":"Garrett Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086426616063,"sku":"9780226774589","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb6d4dc7-8a38-463b-81c9-fc13a365beeb.jpg?v=1769094606","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/novel-violence-garrett-stewart-9780226774589","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}