Audrey Jaffe

Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real

Conventions and Ideology

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Produktbeschreibung

The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real presents a new interpretation of the Victorian realist novel based on realism's desire for the real. In provocative readings of novels by Eliot, Dickens, Trollope, Hardy, and Collins, Jaffe redefines realist conventions and reinterprets long-held theories about realist representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780190269937
• ISBN-10: 0190269936
• Artikelnr.: 47863465

Autorenporträt

Audrey Jaffe is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Realist Territory: Proscription and Prohibition in Adam Bede
II. How I Met Your Mother and Other Lucky Accidents
1. Oliver Twist and the Victorian Family Romance
2. The Mayor of Casterbridge and the Failure of Convention
III. Castles in the Air: Trollope's Realist Fantasy
IV. "Outside the Gates of Everything": Hardy's Exclusionary Realism
V. Armadale: Sensation Fiction Dreams of the Real
VI. Conclusion: Critical Desire and the Victorian Real
Works Cited