Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel

ISBN-13: 9780367887360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Eike Kronshage

Opis

Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel offers a study into the physiognomics and aesthetics of 19th and 20th Century English Realist Novels as presented by some of the best known authors in this genre, like Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. In this highly original approach to

Spis treści

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction Physiognomics and Realism

Chapter 1 "The Amorous Effects of ‘Brass’": Jane Austen (Emma)

Chapter 2 "By the Sweat of One’s Brow": Charlotte Brontë (The Professor & Villette)

Chapter 3 "The Dear Deceit of Beauty": George Eliot (Adam Bede & Daniel Deronda)

Chapter 4 Who Murdered Edwin Drood? Charles Dickens and Physiognomics

Chapter 5 Physiognomic Genre Parody: Joseph Conrad (Almayer’s Folly and The

Secret Agent)

Chapter 6 The Opacity of Modernist Vision: Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Eike Kronshage is an Assistant Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology.