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Author Hill, Christopher L., 1964- author.

Title Figures of the world : the naturalist novel and transnational form / Christopher Laing Hill
Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Flashpoints
FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Preface -- 1. Literary Travels and Literary Transformation -- Literatures in the World -- Naturalist Circuits -- Contexts -- The Structure of the Transnational Field -- 2. The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content
Formal Transpositions and Minimal Schemas -- 4. Plains, Boats, and Backwaters -- Narratives of Structure -- The Horizons of Struggle -- Germinal's Sprouts -- The View from the Crosstrees -- Living Unevenness -- Social Figures and Social Difference -- Conclusion: Figures in and of the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Hill's analysis shows that transnational literary studies must operate on multiple scales, combine distant reading with close analysis, and investigate how literary forms develop on the move"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Subject Naturalism in literature.
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Comparative literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Comparative literature
Literature, Modern
Naturalism in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810142169
0810142163