Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Geoffrey Baker

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If realist novels are the literary avatars of secular science and rational progress, then why are so many canonical realist works organized around a fear of that progress? Realism is openly indebted, at the level of form and content, to imperialist and scientific advances. However, critical emphasis on this has obscured the extent to which major novelists of the period openly worried about the fate of mystery and the dissolution of tradition that...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814256104

ISBN13:9780814256107

Release Date:October 2020

Publisher:Ohio State University Press

Length:258 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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