Realism's Empire : Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel /

Realism's Empire : Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel /

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"In Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that realist fiction's stance toward both progress and the foreign or supernatural is much more complex than established scholarship has assumed. The work of Honoř de Balzac,...

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Main Author: Baker, Geoffrey, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Roman
Realismus
Realism in literature.
German literature.
French literature.
English literature.
Empiricism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Empirisme dans la litterature.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature française > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature allemande > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Fontane, Theodor.
Trollope, Anthony.
Balzac, Honore de.
Trollope, Anthony, > 1815-1882.
Fontane, Theodor, > 1819-1898.
Balzac, Honore de, > 1799-1850.
Balzac, Honore de, > 1799-1850 > Criticism and interpretation.
Trollope, Anthony, > 1815-1882 > Criticism and interpretation.
Fontane, Theodor, > 1819-1898 > Criticism and interpretation.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction ; empire and remapping realism
  • Part I. Balzac and the problem of empiricism. Empiricism and empire : La peau de chagrin
  • Marginal realism in Le Pere Goriot
  • Realism, romance, and La fille aux yeux d'or
  • Part II. Trollope and the problem of integration. Economies of romance and history in 'Phineas Finn'
  • Mapping and unmapping 'Phineas Finn' and 'Phineas redux'
  • Global London and 'The way we live now'
  • Part III. Fontane and the problem of familiarity. "Berlin wird Weltstadt" : nation, city, and world in 'Cecile'
  • The imaginative geography of 'Effi Briest'
  • Conclusion : the limits of "realism."

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