Title The age of realism / G.M. Carsaniga ... [and others] ; F.W.J. Hemmings, editor

Published Hassocks [Eng.] : Harvester Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1978

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Description 414 pages ; 22 cm Series Pelican guide to European literature Pelican guide to European literature Contents 1. Realism and the novel: the eighteenth-century beginnings. Realism and the middle classes -- Fiction and history: the memoir-novel -- The epistolary novel -- Fielding: Tom Jones. 2. Realism in the Age of Romanticism. Walter Scott and the French -- Balzac, Stendhal, and the historical perspective -- Politics and the novel -- The lower classes in Stendhal and Balzac -- Residual Romanticism in Stendhal -- Residual Romanticism in Balzac. 3. Realism in Russia, to the death of Dostoyevsky. Pushkin: Eugene Onegin -- Lermontov: A Hero of our time -- Gogol: Dead souls -- The novels of Turgenev -- Tolstoy's early fiction -- War and peace -- Anna Karenina -- Dostoyevsky: the period of the masterpieces. 4. The Realist and Naturalists movements in France. The novel of social propaganda -- Eugene Sue and the Roman-feuilleton -- The feminist novel -- Madame Bovary -- Champfleury and Duranty -- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt -- Flaubert: L'education sentimentale -- The doctrines of Naturalism -- Les Rougon-Macquart -- Zola: from Realism to Surealism -- Alphonse Daudet -- Joris-Karl Huysmans -- Guy de Maupassant. 5. Realism in German, from the death of Goethe. Realism and the 'Young Germans' -- The Biedermeier writers -- The 'poetic realists' -- The village tale -- The middle-class novel -- Raabe -- Fontane -- Naturalism. 6. Realism in Spain and Portugal. Costumbrismo -- Krausismo -- The realist novelist and the reading public -- Perez Galdos: the novels of the first period -- Other novelists of the 1870s -- Naturalism -- The novel in the 1880s (i) Galdos -- The novel in the 1880s (ii) Pereda -- The novel in the 1880s (iii) Alas -- The decline of Realism -- Realism in Portugal: the 'Generation of 1870' -- Eca de Queiros. 7. Realism in Italy. Regionalism and Verismo -- Scapigliatura -- Popular Realism -- Luigi Capuana: From Verismo to Idealism -- Giovanni Verga: from Verismo to Realism -- Conclusion: the decline of Realism Analysis Fiction in European languages Realism 1812-1900 Fiction in European languages Realism, 1812-1900 Critical studies Notes Fiction in European languages. Realism, 1812-1900. Critical studies (BNB/PRECIS) Originally published: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1974 Bibliography Bibliography: pages 387-401. - Includes index Subject European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Realism in literature. Author Carsaniga, Giovanni, 1934- Hemmings, F. W. J. (Frederick William John), 1920- LC no. 77016556 ISBN 039100817X 0855276819

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