| Description |
x, 357 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Introduction: idea, reality, and the monster: Realism -- The pattern: Frankenstein and Austen to Conrad -- pt. 2. Pre-Victorian realism: banishing the monster: Northanger Abbey: from parody to novel and the translated monster -- Sir Walter Scott: history and the distancing of desire -- Scott and the death of the hero -- pt. 3. Mid-Victorian realism: conventions of the real: Thackeray: "the legitimate high priest of truth" and the problematics of the real -- Thackeray: some elements of realism -- Pendennis: the virtue of the dilettante's unbelief -- Trollope: reality and the rules of the game -- The landscape of reality -- pt. 4. Transformations of reality: Thomas Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge: reversing the real -- George Eliot, Conrad, and the invisible world -- The hero as dilettante: Middlemarch and Nostromo -- Epilogue: Lawrence, Frankenstein, and the reversal of realism. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Realism in literature.
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| ISBN |
0226475506 |
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