The Serious Pleasures of Suspense

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense
Author: Caroline Levine
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780813922171

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Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".