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.
               
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