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Beginning Realism
Artikel-Nr:
9780719072215
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2010
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Steven Earnshaw
Gewicht:
326 g
Format:
198x129x17 mm
Serie:
Beginnnings
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Professor Steven Earnshaw is Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University
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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Two Principles2. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel: Particulars3. Problems in Defining the Realist Novel4. The Idea of Poetry5. Realist Drama6. Modernism7. Before, During, and After PostmodernismInterlude8. Theorists of Realism9. The Language of Realism10. Philosophy, Science, and the Ends of RealismIndex