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)

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Kale, K. A.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2023
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Literature::English
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172636

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...