Losing the Plot, Gaining Perspective
02/03/2026
The interpolated tale, or “tale-within-a-tale,” was a common form of the 18th-century novel and is the focus of "Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel," a new book out by Katherine G. Charles, associate professor of 18th- and 19th-century literature and the director of Washington's iconic Kiplin Hall program.