Realist Critiques of Visual Culture: From Hardy to Barnes

ISBN-13: 9783319773223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 186 str.

Edward T. Barnaby

Opis

Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us?

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Literary Realism as Meta-Spectacle.

2. “Pugin was wrong, and Wren was right” – Architectural Revival as Spectacle in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure.

3. “The true Italy is to be found by patient observation” – Tourism as Spectacle in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View.

4. “You’ve stirred in me my unacted part” – Historical Pageantry as Spectacle in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.

5. “Pressed against the screen” – Cinema and Photography as Spectacle in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

6. “The law of white gloves” – The Museum as Spectacle in Edward Carey’s Observatory Mansions.

7. Epilogue: “Those old soixante-huitards” – Debord as Spectacle in Julian Barnes’ England, England.

O autorze

Edward T. Barnaby is senior assistant dean for graduate programs in the Arts and Sciences and lecturer in English at the University of Virginia, USA.