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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816516303321

Autore

Jaffe Audrey

Titolo

The Victorian novel dreams of the real : conventions and ideology / / Audrey Jaffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-061411-0

0-19-026995-2

0-19-026994-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

823/.80912

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Realism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real' argues that Victorian novelistic realism is a product of the Victorians' overarching desire, both cultural and ideological, for the real. What the book calls 'realist fantasy' describes the way in which the conventions used to represent characters' dreams, daydreams, and fantasies also shape the more general and generalized fantasy that constitutes each particular novel's imagining of the real.