{"product_id":"imagining-otherwise-how-readers-help-to-write-nineteenth-century-novels-paperback-1","title":"Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century Novels - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDebra Gettelman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from experience--sometimes grudgingly--that readers tend to make their own imaginative contributions to fictional worlds. \u003ci\u003eImagining Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Victorian writers acknowledged, grappled with, and ultimately enlisted the prerogative of readers to conjure alternatives and add depth to the words on the page. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDebra Gettelman provides incisive new readings of novels such as \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, exploring how novelists known for prescriptive and didactic narrative voices were at the same time exploring the aesthetic potential for the reader's independent imagination to lend nuance and authenticity to fiction. Modernist authors of the twentieth century have long been considered pioneers in cultivating the reader's capacity to imagine what is not said as part of the art of fiction. Gettelman uncovers the roots of this tradition of novel reading a century earlier and challenges literary criticism that dismisses this spontaneous, readerly impulse as being unworthy of serious examination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs readers demand novels with relatable characters and fan fiction grows in popularity, the reader's imagination has become a determining element of today's literary environment.\u003ci\u003e Imagining Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e takes a deeper look at this history, offering a critical perspective on how we came to view fiction as a site of imaginative appropriation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDebra Gettelman\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703914066227,"sku":"9780691260426","price":50.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Vu1fhm4tSv9780691260426_13e6e47a-0c5e-4141-9666-e8c81cf657a6.webp?v=1763344645","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/imagining-otherwise-how-readers-help-to-write-nineteenth-century-novels-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}