| «Possibilities of Hidden Things»: Narrative Transgression in Victorian Fictional Autobiographies Contributor(s): Hewitt, Regina L. (Editor), Hsiao-Hung Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820428728 ISBN-13: 9780820428727 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 96002776 |
| Series: Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, |
| Physical Information: 178 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hsiao-Hung Lee's "-Possibilities of Hidden Things-" traces submerged narratives as transgressive actions against self-identities and conventional strategies in three major Victorian fictional autobiographies: "Jane Eyre, Villette, David Copperfield." Narrative transgression in these three novels breaks the boundaries between reality and imagination, historical events and fiction, reason and emotion. Instances of the -possibilities of hidden things, - self's wish to become the other, fairy tales taking over personal history are typical of narrative transgression fully exemplified in these novels. Narrative transgression, therefore, has greatly shaken the stability of -I- as the centering voice in the first-person narrative." |