This book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel. The description may sound absurd, yet consideration of alternatives to a given state of affairs

Recent postclassical narratology has constructed top-down reading models that often remain blind to the frame-breaking potential of individual literary narrativ

The Description for this book, Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel, will be forthcoming.

This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributi