Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9781138801035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 192 str.

John Rignall;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments;  List of illustrations;  A note on translations and abbreviations;  1. Introduction: The realist spectator and the problems of vision  2. Benjamin’s Flâneur and Poe’s ‘Man of the Crowd’  3. Scott and the Spectacle of History  4. Balzac: The alienated gaze  5. Bleak House: The flâneur’s perspective and the discovery of the body  6. L’Education Sentimentale: The blank gaze and the weakened personality  7. Vision and Frame in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda  8. The Ambassadors and The Good Soldier: American observers and the commodity of European life  9. The Secret Agent: Metropolitan life and the problems of form  10. Modern Metamorphoses of the Flâeur; Notes;  A short bibliography of secondary works;  Index

O autorze

John Rignall