Richard Gravil, Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel

A Collection of Essays exploring the way in which some of the major novels in the 'long' nineteenth century engaged with society's 'master narratives'.

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This collection of essays in memory of Bill Ruddick, was first published in 2003 by Ashgate and reissued by Humanities Ebooks in 2007.

Contents

Richard Gravil – Introduction; W. B. Hutchings – How pleasant to meet Mr Fielding: The Narrator as Hero in Tom Jones; Jayne Lewis – ‘Where then lies the difference?’: The (Ante) Postmodernity of Tristram Shandy; Mary Wedd – Old Mortality: Editor and Narrator; Frederick Burwick – Mathilda: Who Knew Too Much; Jane Stabler – ‘Perswasion’ in Persuasion; Frederick Burwick – Wuthering Heights as Bifurcated Novel; Richard Gravil – Negotiating Mary Barton; Alan Shelston – Nell, Alice and Lizzie: Three Sisters amidst the Grotesque [illustrated]; Richard Gravil – The Androgyny of Bleak House; Nicola Trott – Middlemarch and ‘the Home Epic’; Gerard Barrett – The Ghost of Doubt: Writing, Speech and Language in Lord Jim; Michael O’Neill – Liking or Disliking: Woolf, Conrad, Lawrence.

The Sample Pages contain the complete introduction to this collection

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Richard Gravil

Richard Gravil is the publisher of Humanities Ebooks. He has written extensively on Wordsworth and on Anglo-American Literary Relations, and edited books on Swift, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.

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