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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777783303321

Autore

Brooks Peter <1938->

Titolo

Realist vision [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-72976-0

9786611729769

0-300-12785-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

823/.80912

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Realism in literature

French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Comparative literature - English and French

Comparative literature - French and English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Realism and Representation -- Chapter 2. Balzac Invents the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 3. Dickens and Nonrepresentation -- Chapter 4. Flaubert and the Scandal of Realism -- Chapter 5. Courbet's House of Realism -- Chapter 6. George Eliot's Delicate Vessels -- Chapter 7. Zola's Combustion Chamber -- Chapter 8. Unreal City: Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing -- Chapter 9. Manet, Caillebotte, and Modern Life -- Chapter 10. Henry James's Turn of the Novel -- Chapter 11. Modernism and Realism: Joyce, Proust, Woolf -- Chapter 12. The Future of Reality? -- References and Bibliographical Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world "as it is." Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project. Centering each chapter on a single novel or group of paintings, Brooks examines the "invention" of realism beginning with Balzac and Dickens, its apogee in the work of



such as Flaubert, Eliot, and Zola, and its continuing force in James and modernists such as Woolf. He considers also the painting of Courbet, Manet, Caillebotte, Tissot, and Lucian Freud, and such recent phenomena as "photorealism" and "reality TV."