Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel [electronic resource] : Engraved  Narratives /
Zigarovich, J.author.
This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "A Laboriously Constructed Skeleton": Retrospection, Loss, and Obituary in Charlotte Brontë's Villette; 2 "It Sounds as Hollow as a Coffin": The Empty Tomb in Bleak House; 3 Wilkie Collins, Narrativity, and Epitaph; 4 Memorialization and Endlessness in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend; 5 Edwin Drood: The Preeminent Missing Body; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book asks why Brontë, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich maintains that narrating death was important to the understanding of absence, separation, and displacement in an industrial and destabilized culture.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature—Philosophy.
British literature.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.