Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2023.2241267
Susan Zlotnick
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2023.2241271
Timothy Helwig
line. Genres do not evolve by natural selection: the unwritten plot is so significant in part because it preserves as potentially possible even that which is not currently accessible, challenging the realist order it has helped to establish. Different stories, and ways of telling, are dominant in different times, and few have been so thoroughly rejected that they could not and do not emerge again, modified but still recognizable. (Glatt 2022, 32)
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Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2023.2241276
Richard C. Sha
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2023.2241269
Suzanne Keen
Carra Glatt’s ebullient Narrative and its Nonevents announces through its rhyming title an affinity with D. A. Miller’s Narrative and its Discontents (1981). In that work one can find a description of nonnarratable events with no narrative future, incapable of generating story, and productively in tension with the narratable. While Miller famously investigated the traditional novel’s vexed relationship with its condition of possibilities and narratability, on the one hand, and the narrowing event of closure, on the other, Glatt plumbs the depths of the unrealized possibilities, deselected plotlines, and unwritten events of Victorian fiction. These nonexistent or counterfactual materials are not quite the absent presences of the deconstructive 1980s. They make up the ocean of story in which Victorian realist novels bob like icebergs, their relatively probable, nonidealized, verisimilar surfaces concealing vaster volumes of deselected genres, allegorical character types, implausible outcomes, and fantastical imaginary worlds that, though mainly unrepresented in the visible novels above, accrete below the waterline to preserve the buoyant powers of romance. Glatt discerns three major types of unwritten plot: shadow plots from the romance tradition that act as underplots to the main plots in works by Charles Dickens; proxy narratives (implied, unnarratable alternatives) to the main plots in sensation fiction by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins as well as in the psychological realism of late Henry James; and hypothetically realist unwritten plots in novels by Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell— those that “expand the limits of narrative and social possibility... envision[ing] possibilities that are currently inaccessible but potentially attainable in an improved future” (Glatt 2022, 31). She illustrates the productive potentialities of her proposed categories of the unwritten plot in lively, extended interpretations of episodes from eleven Victorian novels and a recent Booker-prize winning novel, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (2015). Briefer treatments of dozens of other (mostly English) novels from the eighteenth-century onwards convey both Glatt’s wide reading and her open-mindedness about the variety and worth of diverse fictions in many modes and genres. Though her subject is a phenomenon of Victorian realism, she has a capacious sense of works deserving of that label (by back-formation), and if her range of reference overlaps with a Leavisean Great Tradition, it extends that canon by eschewing snobby border-patrolling. To read Narrative and its Nonevents is to keep company with an enthusiastic novel-reader, informed but not limited by narratology and theories of the novel, acute in her judgments, occasionally hilarious, and possessed of a pungent prose style. Reading Victorian fiction over the shoulder of such an author invites critical conversation: indeed, Glatt addresses us genially as Dear Readers, the co-creators whose opinions and deci
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2023.2213594
A. Dubois
as a utopia, an anti-economic folly? It will nonetheless remain – whether we can make it happen or not – one of the biggest conceptions of our time, and one day we will realize, maybe too late, that the wisest thing to do was to have the audacity to set about doing the Trans-saharan railway, when M. Duponchel suggested it, twelve years ago already].
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2023.2219483
R. Whittle
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2023.2219478
John Marriott
twentieth century American psychiatry. He views modern psychiatry as a Curate’s egg, good in places, and regrets that policy makers placed all their eggs in the one basket of neuroscience. He points to several problem areas for the future: political and public attitudes to the provision of welfare, an over reliance on the market, the lack of recognition of the social and political dimensions of mental health and the provision of mental health services, intra-professional obstacles with its public and, above all, a lack of political will. After his excellent historical exposé of American psychiatry, I would have liked him to provide a more robust epilogue to the book. Perhaps that is for another time.
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