TY - BOOK ID - 77878370 TI - Novel violence PY - 2009 SN - 1282267140 9786612267147 0226774600 9780226774602 9780226774589 0226774589 9781282267145 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Violence in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - English literature KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - thomas hardy, george eliot, anne bronte, charles dickens, novels, victorian, england, classic, canon, literature, prose, nonfiction, narratography, language, violence, death, plot, aesthetics, verbal conflict, ian watt, georg lukacs, poe, narrative, little dorrit, exchange, mill on the floss, tess durbervilles, media, criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878370 AB - Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontèˆ, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguist ER -