"The Serious Pleasures of Suspense argues that a startling array of nineteenth-century thinkers - from John Ruskin and Michael Faraday to Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins - saw suspense as the perfect vehicle for a radically new approach to knowledge that they called "realism." Alt...

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1. Verfasser:	Levine, Caroline 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Charlottesville [u.a.] University of Virginia Press 2003
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:	Victorian literature and culture series
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1830-1900 Engels Spanning Englisch Geschichte English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century Realism in literature Suspense fiction > History and criticism Suspense in literature Erkenntnis Spannung Roman
Zusammenfassung:	"The Serious Pleasures of Suspense argues that a startling array of nineteenth-century thinkers - from John Ruskin and Michael Faraday to Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins - saw suspense as the perfect vehicle for a radically new approach to knowledge that they called "realism." Although by convention suspense has belonged to the realm of sensational mysteries and gothic horrors, and realism to the world of sober, reformist, middle-class domesticity, the two were in fact inextricably intertwined. The real was defined precisely as that which did not belong to the mind, that which stood separate from patterns of thought and belief. In order to get at the truth of the real, readers would have to learn to suspend their judgment. Suspenseful plots were the ideal vehicles for disseminating this experience of doubt, training readers to pause before leaping to conclusions."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index
Beschreibung:	XI, 237 S.
ISBN:	0813922178