Vision and Character
Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel
Published on 15. November 2017
240 pages
978-1-351-23201-2 (ISBN)
Description
As readers, we develop an impression of characters and their settings in a novel based on the author's description of their physical characteristics and surroundings. This process, known as physiognomy, can be seen throughout history including in the English Realist novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel offers a study into the physiognomics and aesthetics as presented by some of the best known authors in this genre, like Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. In this highly original approach to the issues of representation, visuality and aesthetics in the nineteenth-century realist novel, and even the question of literary interpretation, Eike Kronshage argues that physiognomics has enabled writers to access their characters' inner lives without interfering in an authoritative way.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-23201-2 (9781351232012)
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Person
Eike Kronshage is an Assistant Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Physiognomics and Realism
Chapter 1 "The Amorous Effects of 'Brass'": Jane Austen (Emma)
Chapter 2 "By the Sweat of One's Brow": Charlotte Bronte (The Professor & Villette)
Chapter 3 "The Dear Deceit of Beauty": George Eliot (Adam Bede & Daniel Deronda)
Chapter 4 Who Murdered Edwin Drood? Charles Dickens and Physiognomics
Chapter 5 Physiognomic Genre Parody: Joseph Conrad (Almayer's Folly and The
Secret Agent)
Chapter 6 The Opacity of Modernist Vision: Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction Physiognomics and Realism
Chapter 1 "The Amorous Effects of 'Brass'": Jane Austen (Emma)
Chapter 2 "By the Sweat of One's Brow": Charlotte Bronte (The Professor & Villette)
Chapter 3 "The Dear Deceit of Beauty": George Eliot (Adam Bede & Daniel Deronda)
Chapter 4 Who Murdered Edwin Drood? Charles Dickens and Physiognomics
Chapter 5 Physiognomic Genre Parody: Joseph Conrad (Almayer's Folly and The
Secret Agent)
Chapter 6 The Opacity of Modernist Vision: Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
