Minor characters are everywhere in novels. They linger with readers and invite us into the untold aspects of their lives. They fill a text's landscape, bringing depth to its ecosystem, and encourage us to shift our thoughts from textual centers to margins and even to consider the minor elements of our own experiences. Minor characters challenge us to hold oppositional perspectives, rethink interdependencies, and reimagine textual and lived relationships. In many ways, we identify with minor characters, and yet we lack a nuanced way of understanding them. This work is about minor characters and…mehr
Minor characters are everywhere in novels. They linger with readers and invite us into the untold aspects of their lives. They fill a text's landscape, bringing depth to its ecosystem, and encourage us to shift our thoughts from textual centers to margins and even to consider the minor elements of our own experiences. Minor characters challenge us to hold oppositional perspectives, rethink interdependencies, and reimagine textual and lived relationships. In many ways, we identify with minor characters, and yet we lack a nuanced way of understanding them. This work is about minor characters and the qualities of "minorness" in Victorian novels. It offers casual readers and scholars alike a method of reading and rereading for minor characters that extends across genres.
Grace Pregent is the interim director of the Writing Center at Michigan State University and co-directs the Community Writing Center at the East Lansing Public Library and teaches courses in writing, community engagement, and global studies. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface I. Defining and Reading for Minor Characters 1. Minorness and Minor Characters 2. Peripheral Voices in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. From Narrators and Narratees to Implied Authors and Implied Readers 3. Narrators and Narratees: Boundaries, Bonds, and Minor Characters as Storytellers and Storylisteners 4. Empathy and the Process of Making and Receiving Minor Characters III. Real Authors and Real Readers 5. Social Authorship, J.M. Langford, and Very Minor Characters in The Way We Live Now 6. Social Readership and the Global Expansiveness of Thomas Hardy's Minor Characters 7. "An Opinion of Ireland": Thackeray's Irish Minor Characters in Vanity Fair and The Irish Sketch Book Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface I. Defining and Reading for Minor Characters 1. Minorness and Minor Characters 2. Peripheral Voices in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. From Narrators and Narratees to Implied Authors and Implied Readers 3. Narrators and Narratees: Boundaries, Bonds, and Minor Characters as Storytellers and Storylisteners 4. Empathy and the Process of Making and Receiving Minor Characters III. Real Authors and Real Readers 5. Social Authorship, J.M. Langford, and Very Minor Characters in The Way We Live Now 6. Social Readership and the Global Expansiveness of Thomas Hardy's Minor Characters 7. "An Opinion of Ireland": Thackeray's Irish Minor Characters in Vanity Fair and The Irish Sketch Book Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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