Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Rignall, John

 
9781138801042: Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 1138801046 ISBN 13: 9781138801042
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published 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 flâneur. The flâneur 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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John Rignall

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138801046
ISBN 13 
9781138801042
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192

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