Tragic Floss

"The Mill on the Floss", the Novel and Tragedy

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Is there anything the novel can't do? It's a genuine question.

Since I write novels, I'm predisposed to want to answer that question hopefully. But I do wonder. The question,why hasn't there been a novel about ...?, whether implicitly or explicitly framed, suggests the form could tackle anything. Why hasn't anybody written a whodunnit set in the Hitti…