Richard Gravil, Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel

A Collection of Essays exploring the way in which some of the major novels in the 'long' nineteenth century engaged with society's 'master narratives'.

Master Narratives, a collection of essays in memory of Bill Ruddick, was first published in 2003 by Ashgate and reissued by Humanities Ebooks in 2007.

Contents

1 Richard Gravil – Master Narratives; 2 W. B. Hutchings – How pleasant to meet Mr Fielding: The Narrator as Hero in Tom Jones; 3 Jayne Lewis – ‘Where then lies the difference?’: The (Ante) Postmodernity of Tristram Shandy; 4 Mary Wedd – Old Mortality: Editor and Narrator; 5 Frederick Burwick – Mathilda: Who Knew Too Much; 6 Jane Stabler – ‘Perswasion’ in Persuasion; 7 Frederick Burwick – Wuthering Heights as Bifurcated Novel; 8 Richard Gravil – Negotiating Mary Barton; 9 Alan Shelston – Nell, Alice and Lizzie: Three Sisters amidst the Grotesque [illustrated]; 10 Richard Gravil – The Androgyny of Bleak House; 11 Nicola Trott – Middlemarch and ‘the Home Epic’; 12 Gerard Barrett – The Ghost of Doubt: Writing, Speech and Language in Lord Jim; 13 Michael O’Neill – Liking or Disliking: Woolf, Conrad, Lawrence.

Note: proceeds from the sale of this Ebook are donated to Oxfam. The Introduction is available for free download. All except chapter 4 may be bought separately as Micro-Ebooks at £3.00. For details please search on individual essayists’ names.

Richard Gravil

Richard Gravil is the publisher of Humanities Ebooks. He has written extensively on Wordsworth and on Anglo-American Literary Relations, and edited books on Swift, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.