Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism
Through the Looking Glass
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- Author: Katherine Kearns, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: January 1996
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- isbn: 9780521496063
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism radically redefines the genre of realism, arguing that its political commitment to social reform--its earnest agenda--often enters into conflict with its formal demands. Obliged to portray life as truthfully as possible--often through the vehicle of describing tortured souls in a world out of sorts--realism must also satisfy ideological demands that may not jibe with that truth, leading to a crisis of form and function. By looking at these conflicts as peculiar to realism, Kearns reads as realist several texts usually considered too fantastic to fit the realist prescription.
Read more- A substantial theorising of realism
- Comprehensively addresses the relationship between realism and its critics
- Written for scholars as well as general readers of the texts discussed
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"...it is certainly a lively read and worthy of consideration by any hardy enough to venture into the quagmire of studies on realism." Joseph W. Childers
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- Date Published: January 1996
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521496063
- length: 322 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 157 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.615kg
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Real realism
2. Talking about things
3. Domestic violence
4. The inhuman
5. Brontë's variations on a theme by Sade
6. A tropology of realism in Hard Times
7. 'Zenobia in chains'
8. Dreams of sleep
Notes
Index.
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