Representing Realists in Victorian Literature and Criticism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term "realism" to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that mid-nineteenth-century critics and writers first used the term reluctantly, with much confusion over what it might actually mean. It did not acquire the ready meaning we now take for granted until the end of the nineteenth century. In fact, its first definitions came primarily by way of example and analogy, through descriptions of current practitioners, or through fictionalized representations of artists. By investigating original debates over the term "realism," this book shows how writers simultaneously engaged with broader concerns about the changing meanings of what was real and who had the authority to decide this.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Release date:	December 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Daniel Brown
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	194
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-40678-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	3-319-40678-7
Barcode:	9783319406787

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