| Description |
414 pages ; 19 cm |
| Series |
Pelican guides to European literature |
| Contents |
(1) Realism and the novel: the eighteenth-century beginnings (FWJH) -- Realism and the middle classes -- Fiction and history: the memoir-novel -- The epistolary novel -- Fielding: Tom Jones -- (2) Realism and the age of romanticism (FWJH) -- Romanticism and realism -- Walter Scott and the French -- Balzac, Stendhal, and the historical perspective -- Politics and the novel -- Portrait of a condemned class: the aristocracy -- The lower classes in Stendhal and Balzac -- Money matters -- Residual romanticism in Stendhal -- Residual romanticism in Balzac -- (3) Realism in Russia, to the death of Dostoyevsky (RHF) -- The historical background -- Pushkin: Eugene Onegin |
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(7) Realism in Italy / GMC -- The social and cultural background -- Regionalism and Verismo -- Scapigliatura -- Popular realism -- Luigi Capuana: from Verismo to idealism -- Giovanni Verga: from Verismo to realism -- Conclusion: The decline of realism / FWJH |
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Lermontov: a hero of our time -- Gogol: Dead souls -- The forties -- The fifties -- The novels of Turgenev -- Tolstoy's early fiction -- War and Peace -- Anna Karenina -- Dostoyevsky: the period of the masterpieces -- (4) The realist and naturalist movements in France (FWJH) -- The novel of social propaganda, 1830-48 -- 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 surrealism -- Alphonse Daudet -- Joris-Karl Huysmans -- Guy de Maupassant -- (5) Realism in Germany, from the death of Goethe (JMR) |
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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 (JDR) and Portugal (FWJH) -- The social and cultural background -- Costumbrismo -- Krausismo -- The realist novelist and the reading public -- Perez Galdos: the novels of the first period -- Other novelists in 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 |
| Analysis |
Fiction in European languages Realism, 1812-1900 Critical studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Realism in literature.
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| Author |
Carsaniga, Giovanni, 1934-
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Hemmings, F. W. J. (Frederick William John), 1920-
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| LC no. |
74193355 |
| ISBN |
0140217797 (paperback) |
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