Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism: Through the Looking Glass

ISBN-13: 9780521496063 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 322 str.

Katherine Kearns

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"...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

Spis treści

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.