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Realism's Empire : Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel /

"In Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that realist fiction's stance toward both progress and the foreign or supernatural is much more complex than established scholarship has assumed. The work of Honoř de Balzac,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Baker, Geoffrey, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction ; empire and remapping realism
  • Part I. Balzac and the problem of empiricism. Empiricism and empire : La peau de chagrin
  • Marginal realism in Le Pere Goriot
  • Realism, romance, and La fille aux yeux d'or
  • Part II. Trollope and the problem of integration. Economies of romance and history in 'Phineas Finn'
  • Mapping and unmapping 'Phineas Finn' and 'Phineas redux'
  • Global London and 'The way we live now'
  • Part III. Fontane and the problem of familiarity. "Berlin wird Weltstadt" : nation, city, and world in 'Cecile'
  • The imaginative geography of 'Effi Briest'
  • Conclusion : the limits of "realism."