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Realisms: The British Novel in the Nineteenth-Century
Authors: Kitsi, Aikaterini
Kanarakis, Ioannis
Yiannopoulou, Efthymia
Reviewer: Apostolou, Foteini
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > VISUAL ARTS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PERFORMING ARTS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERATURE
Keywords:
British Literature
The Woman Question
Industrialization
Realism
Modernism
Rise & Fall Of The Empire
Postmodernism
Romanticism
Victorianism
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Abstract:
This chapter is 40 pages long. It contains pictures, tables with definitions of terms, primary and secondary material, links to related webpages and a bibliography.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 111
2. Cinderella’s Foot in the Real World 112
3. Le Réalisme: Realism in Art 113
4. Realism and the Novel 117
4.1 Feudalism and Medieval Romances 117
4.2 The Rise of the Middle Class 118
4.3 The Characteristics of the New Genre 120
5. George Eliot’s Realist Manifesto 124
6. The Defective Mirror 128
7. Literalism, Photographic Realism, Materialism 129
8. “Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant—”: The Paradox of Realism 134
9. Translucency vs. Polysemy in Language 137
10. The Dialogic Character of the Novel 140
10.1 Centripetal vs. Centrifugal Forces 140
10.2 The Novel as a Hybrid Genre 141
10.3 Point of View 142
11. Female Realism 143
12. Realism: Reactionary or Progressive? 144
13. Conclusion 148
Βibliography
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Spatial Coverage: Britain, Europe, USA
Temporal Coverage: 19th century
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/943
Bibliographic Reference: Kitsi, A., Kanarakis, I., & Yiannopoulou, E. (2015). Realisms: The British Novel in the Nineteenth-Century [Chapter]. In Kitsi, A., Kanarakis, I., & Yiannopoulou, E. 2015. Movements and Trends in 19th- and 20th-Century English Literature [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/943
Language: English
Is Part of: Movements and Trends in 19th- and 20th-Century English Literature
Technical Requirement: This chapter does not need any special software/driver/codec from the user.
Number of pages 40
Typical Learning Time: PT03H00M00S
Version: 1st ed.
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions