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Auteur(s) : Freedgood, Elaine (1957-....)
Titre(s) : Worlds enough [Texte imprimé] : the invention of realism in the Victorian novel / Elaine Freedgood
Publication : Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton university press, 2019
Description matérielle : xxii, 152 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fiction.
Now praised for its realism and formal coherence, the Victorian novel was not always
great, or even good, in the eyes of its critics. As Elaine Freedgood reveals in Worlds
Enough, it was only in the late 1970s that literary critics constructed a prestigious
version of British realism, erasing more than a century of controversy about the value
of Victorian fiction. Examining criticism of Victorian novels since the 1850s, Freedgood
demonstrates that while they were praised for their ability to bring certain social
truths to fictional life, these novels were also criticized for their formal failures
and compared unfavorably to their French and German counterparts. She analyzes the
characteristics of realism--denotation, omniscience, paratext, reference, and ontology--and
the politics inherent in them, arguing that if critics displaced the nineteenth-century
realist novel as the standard by which others are judged, literary history might be
richer. It would allow peripheral literatures and the neglected wisdom of their critics
to come fully into view. She concludes by questioning the aesthetic racism built into
prevailing ideas about the centrality of realism in the novel, and how those ideas
have affected debates about world literature. By re-examining the critical reception
of the Victorian novel, Worlds Enough suggests how we can rethink our practices and
perceptions about books we think we know."
Sujet(s) : Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Réalisme (littérature)
Réalisme (mouvement littéraire)
Indice(s) Dewey :
820.9 (23e éd.) = Littérature de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691193304. - ISBN 0691193304 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473525701
Notice n° :
FRBNF47352570
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Table des matières : Preface:. Worlds enough -- ; Introduction:. How the Victorian novel Became Realistic
(in a French way), Reactionary, and Great -- ; Case study 1: Denotation -- ; Case
study 2: Omniscience -- ; Case study 3: Paratext -- ; Case study 4: Hetero-ontologicality
-- ; Case study 5: Reference -- ; Conclusion:. Decolonizing the novel.
