Realism's empire
Subtitle: empiricism and enchantment in the nineteenth-century novel
By: Geoffrey Baker.
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press; Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780814210987; 9780814291962
Subjects: Balzac, Honoré de, -- 1799-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation; Trollope, Anthony, -- 1815-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation; Fontane, Theodor, -- 1819-1898 -- Criticism and interpretation; Realism in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Empiricism and empire : La peau de chagrin; title: Marginal realism in Le Père Goriot; title: Realism, romance, and La fille aux yeux d'or; title: Economies of romance and history in Phineas Finn; title: Mapping and unmapping Phineas Finn and Phineas redux; title: Global London and the way we live now; title: "Berlin wird Weltstadt" : nation, city, and world in Cécile; title: The imaginative geography of Effi Briest; title: Conclusion : the limits of "realism".