Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-199) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Unity and reliability in the Victorian multinarrator novel -- Epistles to narratives to monologues -- Depth and surface: back-and-forth narration and embodiment in Bleak House -- The quick switch: the child's resistance to adulthood in Treasure Island -- Disability aesthetics and multinarration in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white, The moonstone, and The Legacy of Cain -- The permeable frame: Gothic collaboration in Wuthering Heights -- Epilogue: Returning and nonreturning multinarration in Dracula and The beetle.
Summary:
"Integrating narrative theory, gothic theory, and disability studies with analyses of works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Emily Brontèˆ, and Bram Stoker, this study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure in Victorian novels"-- Provided by publisher.
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