Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Realism and representation
  • Balzac invents the nineteenth century
  • Dickens and nonrepresentation
  • Flaubert and the scandal of realism
  • Courbet's house of realism
  • George Eliot's delicate vessels
  • Zola's combustion chamber
  • Unreal city : Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing
  • Manet, Caillebotte, and modern life
  • Henry James's turn of the novel
  • Modernism and realism : Joyce, Proust, Woolf
  • The future of reality?