Crisis of Realism: Representing Experience in the British Novel, 1816-1910

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Crises of Realism explores the vital "middle spaces" in novels of the Romantic and Victorian periods, when writers struggled to create realistic fictions at the intersections of experience and aesthetic organizing tropes. Drawing on the work of Michel de Certeau, Hayden White, and George Levine, Lloyd stresses the growing instability of literary representation and the accompanying tendency among novelists to find narrative escapes, however brief. The book's thesis is that novelistic realism is, in part, an ...
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Crises of Realism explores the vital "middle spaces" in novels of the Romantic and Victorian periods, when writers struggled to create realistic fictions at the intersections of experience and aesthetic organizing tropes. Drawing on the work of Michel de Certeau, Hayden White, and George Levine, Lloyd stresses the growing instability of literary representation and the accompanying tendency among novelists to find narrative escapes, however brief. The book's thesis is that novelistic realism is, in part, an endeavor to tame the instabilities unleashed by revolution and doubt; yet realism must display its unstable origins if it is to be valid. Therein lies the difficulty of creating middle spaces where instability is both tamed and revealed.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780838753590
  • Publisher: Bucknell University Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1997
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.50 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 9
1 Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France 20
2 Jane Austen's Emma: Realism and Delimitation 38
3 Frankenstein and Aesthetic Decay 56
4 Jane Eyre: Vision and Aesthetic Control 72
5 Aesthetic Escapes in Four Novels by Charles Dickens 88
6 George Eliot's Visions: Idealism and Realism 122
7 Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Realism as a Form of Idealism 141
8 Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Monstrous Portrait and Realism's Demise 156
9 Symbols, Ornaments, and Things in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 172
10 E. M. Forster and Artistic Fluidity: Romance, Idyll, and Limited Metaphors 188
Notes 205
Bibliography 227
Index 235
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