Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows how their styles are not merely ornamental but fundamental to building their own temporalities.

By capturing the temporal dimensions in Wordsworth's The Prelude, Richardson's Clarissa, Flaubert's “Un Coeur Simple,” and Melville's Moby Dick, John Park argues that these literary works of realism – the artistic claim to represent life as it is – do not necessarily depend upon the pl...