Journal article
The Ethical Tempo of Narrative Syntax: Sylleptic Recognitions in Our Mutual Friend
Partial answers, Vol.8(1), pp.119-145
01/01/2010
DOI: 10.1353/pan.0.0162
Abstract
In inventing the Victorian novel with Pickwick Papers (1836), Charles Dickens - trailing clouds of Augustan wit as filtered and aerated through eighteenth-century comic fiction - has his inebriated hero, risen to the heights of attempted rhetoric in an impromptu speech, fall "simultaneously" (19: 254) into a wheelbarrow and sound asleep - as if to say, passing at once from public view and out. In effect, he borrows the banter of comic dialogue from his fictional predecessors and transfuses his own discourse with it, lending character to his own narration and narrative authority to the wit, however contorted.2 By contrast, and by the protocols of quotation alone, a stagey and affected character in the first major English novel of the nineteenth century, Lady Delacour in Maria Edgweworth's 1801 Belinda, deploys such phrases as part of her pose of mannered sarcasm.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Ethical Tempo of Narrative Syntax: Sylleptic Recognitions in Our Mutual Friend
- Creators
- Garrett Stewart
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Partial answers, Vol.8(1), pp.119-145
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/pan.0.0162
- ISSN
- 1565-3668
- eISSN
- 1936-9247
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398046602771
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