Frame Narratives and Realism in the Genre, 1790-1900
by
Clayton Carlyle Tarr
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Frame narratives—stories within stories—are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of the genre, frame narratives in fact function as a dynamic basis for imaginative variation and are vital to evaluating the diverse Gothic tradition. The juxtaposition...