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Garrett, Peter K. Thomas, Mark Ellis 2011-05-07T13:15:28Z 2011-05-07T13:15:28Z 10000-01-01 1992 Repetition and Difference in Nineteenth-Century British Narrative analyzes narrative repetition in historically specific terms of similarity and difference, thereby historicizing repetition: first by analyzing repetition into similarity and difference; secondly by understanding repetition as a negotiation between similarity and difference; and thirdly by recognizing that those are not transcendental categories but cultural constructions--linguistic expressions of limited social perspectives made at particular moments in history. This work asserts that, as the values of difference changed during the nineteenth century, the traditional, grounded repetition-of-similarity was increasingly contested by an emergent, destabilizing repetition-of-difference, which grew in response to industrial, cultural, economic, and other political developments at the time. In critical practice, this historical view situates formalistic readings and the insights of psychoanalysis into the structural and temporal aspects of narrative and repetition. A theoretical introduction constructs an interpretive model of repetition, which is then applied to both Gothic and Conradian doubling narratives as well as to novels by Emily Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Hogg, Wilde, and others. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:15:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9236607.pdf: 15696667 bytes, checksum: d17ecb79dcdc27729ec2152dba75d5e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:52:23Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:24:07-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9236607 (UMI)AAI9236607 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21665 eng Copyright 1992 Thomas, Mark Ellis Literature, English Repetition and difference in nineteenth-century British narrative text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.