The Rhetoric of Modernist Fiction

The Rhetoric of Modernist Fiction is a book written by Morton P. Levitt and recently published by the University Press of New England where we found that Brontë fiction is also discussed.

Though it has been one of the most influential critical works of the last fifty years, Wayne Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction has disappointed many readers in its treatment of modernism. (...)
In a bold updating of that seminal work, Morton P. Levitt, long-time editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, explores the rhetoric of point of view in modernist and post-modernist novels, offering new insights into some of the greatest works of the last century. As the editor of one of the most important journals in the field, Levitt has been uniquely situated to absorb and reflect critically upon the most significant scholarship on modernist fiction. In a series of subtle, persuasive readings, he demonstrates that the rejection of omniscience is one of the defining characteristics of modernist and post-modernist novel.

The chapter in which Brontë literature is discussed is:

• Nineteenth-Century English Forms: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Brontë

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