The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination (Hardcover)

The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as copies of reality. He was a celebrity who found himself subservient to publishers and the public, in a newly-industrialised literary marketplace. He was the owner of his work who was divested of his property by imperfect copyright laws, playwrights who adapted his novels for the stage, and sequel-writers. This combination of a conspicuous yet precarious status with a self-effacing attitude was expressed by an image of the author as a plural, Protean subject, possessing the faculty of sympathetic imagination - which the realists incorporated in their works in the form of a series of fictional characters who functioned as 'doubles' of the author. Paraschas focuses on two realists, Honore de Balzac and George Eliot."

General

Imprint:	Maney Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Sotirios Paraschas
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-1-907975-70-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Promotions
LSN:	1-907975-70-5
Barcode:	9781907975707

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