The Serious Pleasures of Suspense

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense PDF Author: Caroline Levine
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922171
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Get Book Here

Book Description
Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".