The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady ChatterlyUniversity of Chicago Press, 1981 - 357 páginas In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality. As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free. |
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Part Two PreVictorian Realism Banishing the Monster | 59 |
Part Three MidVictorian Realism Conventions of the Real | 129 |
Part Four Transformations of Reality | 227 |
Epilogue Lawrence Frankenstein and the Reversal of Realism | 317 |
Notes | 329 |
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The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly George Levine Visualização parcial - 1981 |
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