The romance of mystery and the mystery of romance: Charlotte Smith's Ethelinde, Wilkie Collins's "I say no," the McGuffin, and narrative closure (Article)
In this article, I argue that Charlotte Smith’s novel Ethelinde (1789) is structurally similar to Wilkie Collins’s novel “I Say No” (1884). As a consequence, Ethelinde highlights similarities between two of the great genres of formula fiction: the romance and the whodunit. Further, I shall argue...
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2023
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |