The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt.(Book review)

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Date: 20050922
Author:Smith, Johanna M.

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt. By Caroline Levine. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xi + 237 pages.

The title of this book indicates the breadth of its subject. Caroline Levine traces nineteenth-century debates about the uses of suspense, studying novels by Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde but also traversing the nineteenth-century fields of science, philosophy, and aesthetics. Her interdisciplinary method and her sophisticated re-vision of both realism ...

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