Steven Earnshaw

Beginning Realism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as 'too slippery' to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary Theory alike, plainly setting out what realism is, the issues surrounding it, and its role in other major literary modes such as modernism and postmodernism. Beginning Realism gives detailed coverage of the nineteenth-century realist novel through its focus on novels by Gaskell, Eliot, Trollope, Dickens, Mrs Oliphant, Thackeray and Zola. As well as discussing 'the novel', the book also includes chapters on the use of realism in drama and poetry and a chapter on 'the language of realism', another aspect often overlooked in analysis of the concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847794048
• Artikelnr.: 44008342

Autorenporträt

Professor Steven Earnshaw is Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Two
Principles 2. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Particulars 3. Problems
in Defining the Realist Novel 4. The Idea of Poetry 5. Realist Drama 6.
Modernism 7. Before, During, and After Postmodernism Interlude 8. Theorists
of Realism 9. The Language of Realism 10. Philosophy, Science, and the Ends
of Realism Index