Realist vision
By: Peter Brooks.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Realism in literature; French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- English and French; Literature, Comparative -- French and English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Realism and representation; title: Balzac invents the nineteenth century; title: Dickens and nonrepresentation; title: Flaubert and the scandal of realism; title: Courbet's house of realism; title: George Eliot's delicate vessels; title: Zola's combustion chamber; title: Unreal city : Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing; title: Manet, Caillebotte, and modern life; title: Henry James's turn of the novel; title: Modernism and realism : Joyce, Proust, Woolf; title: The future of reality?