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Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world "as it is". Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively...

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Main Author: Brooks, Peter, 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > English and French.
Comparative literature > French and English.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780300127850
0300127855
1281729760
9781281729767
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Realism and representation
  • Balzac invents the nineteenth century
  • Dickens and nonrepresentation
  • Flaubert and the scandal of realism
  • Courbet's house of realism
  • George Eliot's delicate vessels
  • Zola's combustion chamber
  • Unreal city : Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing
  • Manet, Caillebotte, and modern life
  • Henry James's turn of the novel
  • Modernism and realism : Joyce, Proust, Woolf
  • The future of reality?

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