The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt by Caroline Levine

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt

Caroline Levine

288 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

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Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of nineteenth-century British fiction, both high and low. But few have asked why suspense played such a crucial role in the Victorian novel--and in Victorian cultu...

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