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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552781903321

Autore

Baker Geoffrey <1973->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8142-7140-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 246 p. )

Disciplina

809/.912

Soggetti

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

French literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Realism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Empiricism and empire : La peau de chagrin -- Marginal realism in Le Pere Goriot -- Realism, romance, and La fille aux yeux d'or -- Economies of romance and history in Phineas Finn -- Mapping and unmapping Phineas Finn and Phineas redux -- Global London and the way we live now -- "Berlin wird Weltstadt" : nation, city, and world in Cecile -- The imaginative geography of Effi Briest -- Conclusion : the limits of "realism".