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Satire in an age of realism /

"As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matz, Aaron, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture
  • 1 Augustan Satire And Victorian Realism
  • Limits And Endings
  • The Human Complexion
  • Scorning To Infinity
  • Ridicule Is The Test Of Truth
  • Beyond Correction
  • 2 Terminal Satire And Jude The Obscure
  • Mostly The Satirists
  • Satire From Above
  • Prepositional Satire
  • Farce And The Comparatively Unreal
  • Hardy And The Limits Of Genre
  • Terminal Satire
  • 3 George Gissings Ambivalent Realism
  • The Place Of Realism In Fiction
  • The Business Of Literature Abolished
  • The Scorner Of Average Mankind
  • Gissing, Dickens, And Idealistic Realism
  • 4 The English Critics And The Norwegian Satirist
  • The Most Famous Man In The English Literary World
  • Enter The Norwegian Satirist
  • Ibsen And The Illusion Of Reality
  • The Amoral, The Moral, And The Immoral Ibsen
  • Ibsen, Shaw, Realism, Satire
  • 5 Truth And Caricature In The Secret Agent
  • A New Departure In Genre
  • The Whole Town Of Marvels And Mud
  • Man And Mankind
  • The Invincible Nature Of Human Error
  • The Other Side Of Irony
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.