Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)
Published on 29. January 2016
198 pages
978-1-317-62629-9 (ISBN)
Description
The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flaneur. The flaneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field, this title will be of particular view to students of realism, literary theory, and comparative literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
9,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-62629-9 (9781317626299)
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Person
John Rignall
Content
Acknowledgments; A Note on Translations and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Benjamin's; Flaneur; and Poe's 'Man of the Crowd'; Chapter 3 Scott and the Spectacle of History; Chapter 4 Balzac; Chapter 5 Bleak House; Chapter 6 L'Education Sentimentale; Chapter 7 Vision and Frame in; Middlemarch; and; Daniel Deronda; Chapter 8; The Ambassadors; and; The Good Soldier; Chapter 9 The Secret Agent; Chapter 10 Modern Metamorphoses of the; Flaneur;
