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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Main Author:	Kale, K. A.
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Published:	2023
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-1726362023-12-21T15:33:51Z 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) Kale, K. A. School of Humanities Humanities::Literature::English 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 that the twentieth-century theory of the McGuffin can complicate generic conventions by showing how a driving narrative force can evade clear categorization as either a McGuffin or not. Published version 2023-12-20T00:11:14Z 2023-12-20T00:11:14Z 2023 Journal Article Kale, K. A. (2023). 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). Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment, 3(1), 21-27. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/srej.2023.3.1.2 2661-3336 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172636 10.32655/srej.2023.3.1.2 1 3 21 27 en Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment © 2023 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, & the Brigham Young University Faculty Publishing Service. application/pdf
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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)

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