The Realistic Imagination
Subtitle: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780226475516
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Unassigned Title; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Books & Reading; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; 19th century; English fiction; History and criticism; Realism in literature
First sentence: To take the word realism and the idea of representation seriously entails a challenge to the antireferential bias of our criticism and to the method of radical deconstruction that has become a commonplace.