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Getting Lost in the Novel examines the strategic use of confusion as a narrative device in British fiction spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Amanda Auerbach demonstrates how canonical and lesser-known authors deliberately employed disorientation, misdirection, and narrative complexity to challenge readers’ expectations and deepen their engagement with texts.
Through careful textual analysis, the book reveals how confusion operates as more than a stylistic quirk—it becomes a tool for exploring themes of identity, knowledge, and interpretation. Auerbach traces the evolution of this technique across different genres and literary movements, showing how writers from the novel’s formative period used strategic confusion to push the boundaries of what fiction could accomplish. This groundbreaking study reshapes our understanding of reader experience and authorial intention in one of literature’s most transformative periods.
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