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Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel - Synthetic Realism (Hardcover)
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Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel - Synthetic Realism (Hardcover)
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The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot
possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another', wrote
Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double negatives,
hesitation, and uncertainty, encapsulates the epistemological
difficulties of realism, for underlying its narrative and
descriptive apparatus as an aesthetic mode lies a philosophical
quandary. What grounds the 'real' of the realist novel? What kind
of perception is required to validate the experience of reality?
How does the realist novel represent the difficulty of knowing?
What comes to the fore in James's account, as in so many, is how
the forms of realism are constituted by a relation to unknowing,
absence, and ineffability. Realism, Form, and Representation in the
Edwardian Novel recovers a neglected literary history centred on
the intricate relationship between fictional representation and
philosophical commitment. It asks how-or if-we can conceptualize
realist novels when the objects of their representational
intentions are realities that might exist beyond what is
empirically verifiable by sense data or analytically verifiable by
logic, and are thus irreducible to conceptual schemes or linguistic
practices-a formulation Charlotte Jones refers to as 'synthetic
realism'. In new readings of Edwardian novels including Conrad's
Nostromo and The Secret Agent, Wells's Tono-Bungay, and Ford's The
Good Soldier, this volume revises and reconsiders key elements of
realist novel theory-metaphor and metonymy; character interiority;
the insignificant detail; omniscient narration and free indirect
discourse; causal linearity-to uncover the representational
strategies by which realist writers grapple with the recalcitrance
of reality as a referential anchor, and seek to give form to the
force, opacity, and uncertain scope of realities that may lie
beyond the material. In restoring a metaphysical dimension to the
realist novel's imaginary, Realism, Form, and Representation in the
Edwardian Novel offers a new conceptualization of realism both
within early twentieth-century literary culture and as a
transhistorical mode of representation.
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