Worlds enough : the invention of realism in the Victorian novel /

"A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fiction. Now praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always great, or even good, in the eyes of its critics. As Elaine Freedgood reveals in Worlds Enough, it was only in the late 1970s...

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Tác giả chính: Freedgood, Elaine (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [2019]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvfrxrv5
Mục lục:
  • Preface : Worlds enough
  • Introduction : How the Victorian novel became realistic (in a French way), reactionary, and great
  • Case study 1: Denotation
  • Case study 2: Omniscience
  • Case study 3: Paratext
  • Case study 4: Hetero-ontologicality
  • Case study 5: Reference
  • Conclusion : Decolonizing the novel.