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Bad Plots and Objectivity in Maria Edgeworth

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Drawing on the protocols and structures of experimental science, the early nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth develops objectivity as a dimension of plot rather than of narrative viewpoint. In her novels,… Click to show full abstract

Drawing on the protocols and structures of experimental science, the early nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth develops objectivity as a dimension of plot rather than of narrative viewpoint. In her novels, plot becomes a means of producing legitimately objective facts within a fictive universe.

Keywords: bad plots; plots objectivity; objectivity maria; objectivity; maria edgeworth

Journal Title: Representations
Year Published: 2017

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