![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What can be called the sterility plot refers to a narrative, or subnarrative, incorporating elements of suspense and the supernatural that draws attention to disruptions of the period’s normative biological and romance trajectory toward childbirth (within wedlock) by portraying women of childbearing age who experience mental illness in spectralised terms. For Victorian fiction, this plot line can be seen to coincide with the familiar marriage plot, yet its Gothicised obverse also appears in both medical and imaginative literature of the 19th century. Bringing affective science to bear on narratology, Patrick Colm Hogan has defined “the fertility plot” as a narrative category in which the protagonist aims to achieve sexual congress in order to produce offspring ( Hogan 2011, p. ![]()
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