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Author Levine, George, 1931-

Title The realistic imagination : English fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley / George Levine.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1981]
©1981

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Description x, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Introduction: idea, reality, and the monster: Realism -- Pattern: Frankenstein and Austen to Conrad -- pt. 2. Pre-Victorian realism: banishing the monster: Northanger Abbey: from parody to novel and the translated monster -- Sir Walter Scott: history and the distancing of desire -- Scott and the death of the hero -- pt. 3. Mid-Victorian realism: conventions of the real: Thackeray: "the legitimate high priest of truth" and the problematics of the real -- Thackeray: some elements of realism -- Pendennis: the virtue of the dilettante's unbelief -- Trollope: reality and the rules of the game -- Landscape of reality -- pt. 4. Transformations of reality: Thomas Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge: reversing the real -- George Eliot, Conrad, and the invisible world -- Hero as dilettante: Middlemarch and Nostromo -- Epilogue: Lawrence, Frankenstein, and the reversal of realism.
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Romans.
Realisme (letterkunde)
Engels.
ISBN 0226475506
9780226475509