The Sentiment of Reality: Truth of Feeling in the European Novel

ISBN-13: 9780367610661 / Angielski

Michael Bell

Opis

Originally published in 1983, The Sentiment of Reality covers the rise and decline of the realist novel from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Spis treści

1 Introduction Part One Richardson and Sterne: ‘Sentiment as Principle’ and ‘Sentiment as Feeling’ 2 Richardson: Sentiment as Principle 3 Sterne: Sentiment as Feeling Part Two Diderot and Goethe: Quizzical Approaches to Realism 4 Diderot: Fact and Value or ‘Paradox in the Fiction’ 5 Goethe’s Werther: Identification and Judgement Part Three Tolstoy and Dickens: Moral Realism and the Language of Feeling 6 Tolstoy: Truth of Feeling and the ‘Sentiment of Reality’ 7 Dickens: The Fiction of Popular Sentiment Part Four Flaubert, Joyce and Nabokov: The Rejection of Sentiment and the Feeling of Truth 8 Modernist Parody and the Irony of Irony 9 Conclusion