Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism. Through The Looking Glass

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: First Edition

Description: 308 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism radically redefines the genre of realism, arguing that its political commitment to social reform--its earnest agenda--often enters into conflict with its formal demands. Obliged to portray life as truthfully as possible--often through the vehicle of describing tortured souls in a world out of sorts--realism must also satisfy ideological demands that may not jibe with that truth, leading to a crisis of form and function. By looking at these conflicts as peculiar to realism, Kearns reads as realist several texts usually considered too fantastic to fit the realist prescription.

ISBN: 0521496063