Misfit Forms
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel
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2015
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-6343-1 (ISBN)
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-6343-1 (ISBN)
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Examines the development of norms and divergences in the 18th and 19th century British novel. Focuses on typography, plot structures, modes of communicating affect, and the cultivation of wonder vs. curiosity. Includes discussion of Defoe, Sterne, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Woolf and other writers.
The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not only achievements but also exclusions. Misfit Forms offers a speculative reconstruction of roads less traveled. What if typographical emphasis and its associated transmission of sensuality and feeling had not lost out to “transparent” typography and its paradigms of sympathetic identification? What was truncated when cumulative narrative structures were declared primitive in relation to the unified teleological plot? What visions of the novel’s value as an arena for experience were sidelined when novel reading was linked to epistemological gain?
Reading novels by Sterne, Charlotte Bronte, Defoe, Gaskell, Hardy, and Woolf in tandem with less-known works, Nandrea illuminates the modes and techniques that did not become mainstream. Following Deleuze, Nandrea traces the “dynamic repetitions” of these junctures in the work of later writers. Far from showing the eclipse of primitive modes, such moments of convergence allow us to imagine other possibilities for the novel’s trajectory.
The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not only achievements but also exclusions. Misfit Forms offers a speculative reconstruction of roads less traveled. What if typographical emphasis and its associated transmission of sensuality and feeling had not lost out to “transparent” typography and its paradigms of sympathetic identification? What was truncated when cumulative narrative structures were declared primitive in relation to the unified teleological plot? What visions of the novel’s value as an arena for experience were sidelined when novel reading was linked to epistemological gain?
Reading novels by Sterne, Charlotte Bronte, Defoe, Gaskell, Hardy, and Woolf in tandem with less-known works, Nandrea illuminates the modes and techniques that did not become mainstream. Following Deleuze, Nandrea traces the “dynamic repetitions” of these junctures in the work of later writers. Far from showing the eclipse of primitive modes, such moments of convergence allow us to imagine other possibilities for the novel’s trajectory.
Lorri Nandrea is an independent scholar.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Novel, Education, and Experience 1 1. Typing Feeling: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Sentimentality 2. The Science of the Sensible: From Sterne to Charlotte Bronte 3. Sense in the Middle: Teleological vs. Cumulative Plotting 4. Verisimilitudes: Curiosity, Wonder, and Negative Capability Conclusion: Woolf's Fin Notes Works Cited Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.1.2015 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8232-6343-6 / 0823263436 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8232-6343-1 / 9780823263431 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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