Realism`s Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 9780814256107

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Автор: Baker Geoffrey
Название: Realism`s Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
ISBN: 9780814256107
Издательство: Ohio State University Press
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Литература: история и критика

ISBN-10: 0814256104
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 258
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 04.06.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 15
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Empiricism and enchantment in the nineteenth-century novel
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: If realist novels are the literary avatars of secular science and rational progress, then why are so many canonical realist works organized around a fear of that progress? Realism is openly indebted, at the level of form and content, to imperialist and scientific advances. However, critical emphasis on this has obscured the extent to which major novelists of the period openly worried about the fate of mystery and the dissolution of tradition that accompanied sciences shrinking of the world. Realisms modernization is inseparable from nostalgia. In Realisms Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that realist fictions stance toward both progress and the foreign or supernatural is much more complex than established scholarship has assumed. The work of Honor de Balzac, Anthony Trollope, and Theodor Fontane explicitly laments the loss of mystery in the world due to increased knowledge and exploration. To counter this loss and to generate the complications required for narrative, these three authors import peripheral, usually colonial figures into the metropolitan centers they otherwise depict as disenchanted and rationalized: Paris, London, and Berlin. Bakers book examines the consequences of this duel for realist narrative and readers understandings of its historical moment. In so doing, Baker shows Balzac, Trollope, and Fontane grappling with new realities that frustrate their inherited means of representation and oversee a significant shift in the development of the novel.

Realism`s Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Baker Geoffrey