Shadowtime
History and Representation in Hardy, Conrad and George Eliot
Published on 18. March 1993
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-415-08597-7 (ISBN)
Description
In "Shadowtime" Jim Reilly asks questions about literature's relation to the cherished principles of history: origination, historical reconstruction, possession and the very concept of Reality. Taking up Adorno's assertion about the crisis of 20th-century art and its inability to represent historical events, Reilly searches for the roots of this problem and its articulation within the works of Hardy, Conrad and George Eliot. Drawing on the theories of Benjamin, Foucault, Hegel, Lukacs and Nietzsche, the author constructs a powerful argument across the entire period of historicism's triumph and decline.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-08597-7 (9780415085977)
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Content
1. "Writing the Event" or "The Text that Disappeared" - History and Representation in the 19th and 20th Century 2. "A History of the Lights and Shadows" - Aspects of History, Myth and Realism in Hardy and George Eliot 3. More Monuments and Maidens - George Eliot and History I. "A Report of Unknown Objects" - Silas Marner II. "The Mutilated Relics of Antiquity" - Romola III. "No Statutes in the Unconscious" - Daniel Deronda 4. Stasis, Signs and Speculation - Nostromo and History.