All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction

by Lilian R. Furst

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"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst seeks to reconcile these contradictory claims. In doing so, she clarifies the deceptions, appropriations, intentions, and ultimately the power of literary realism.
In close textual analyses of works ranging across European and American literature, including...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822316463

ISBN13:9780822316466

Release Date:October 1995

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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