Realism's empire : empiricism and enchantment in the nineteenth-century novel /
Baker, Geoffrey,1973-
Columbus : Ohio State University Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : empire and remapping realism -- Empiricism and empire : La peau de chagrin -- Marginal realism in Le père Goriot -- Realism, romance, and La fille aux yeux d'or -- Economies of romance and history in Phineas Finn -- Mapping and unmapping Phineas Finn and Phineas redux -- Global London and The way we live now -- "Berlin wird Weltstadt" : nation, city, and world in Cécile -- The imaginative geography of Effi Briest -- Conclusion : the limits of "realism."
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898
Realism in literature.
English literature
French literature
German literature