Eventfulness in British Fiction

The book describes a framework for the narratological definition of the term "eventfulness" and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. An event is defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, which constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. A series of analyses of canonical British novels and tales, from the early modern period to the end of the 20th century, demonstrates in detail how this concept can be put into practice for a specific contextual interpretation of the eventfulness of these texts.