Title Human tissue in the realist novel, 1850-1895 / Ben Moore

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 100 pages) Series Palgrave pivot Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine, 2634-6443 Palgrave pivot. Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. 2634-6443 Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Human Tissue -- Human Nature, Fragility and Belatedness -- Human Tissue: A Concept for Reading -- Human Tissue in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Outline -- Chapter 2: Becoming-evolutionary?: Animal Transformations in Alton Locke -- Alton's Dream: The Collapse and Restoration of Self -- Deleuze and Guattari I: Series, Structure and Desire -- Deleuze and Guattari II: Becoming-animal and Becoming-molecular -- Evolutionary Progress vs Death and Disruption -- Machines, Assemblages and Haeccities Becoming-Evolutionary -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Allegorical Realism and the Figure of the Human in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch -- The Passions of the River -- The Natural History of the Anthropocene -- The Externalised Essence of Humanity: Feuerbach -- Fragments, Strings and Scratches -- Threads, Tissues and Layers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Zola, Moore, Lee and the Vivisectional Novel -- Zola's Nauseating Kitchen -- Le Ventre de Paris: The Fat and the Thin -- The Market as Slaughterhouse -- George Moore: The Outer Skin of Naturalism -- Vernon Lee: The Moral Miasma of Zola Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: The Primitive Tissue of Realism -- Index Summary This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of the realist novel in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through three case studies, it argues for human tissue as a conceptual tool for reading that brings together biology, literature and questions of layering. This new approach is shown to be especially salient to the Victorian period, when the application of tissue to biology first emerges. The book is distinctive in bringing together theoretical concerns around realism and the Anthropocene two major topics in literary criticism and presenting a new methodology to approach this conjunction, demonstrated through original readings of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, and Emile Zola and two English-language writers he influenced (George Moore and Vernon Lee) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 10, 2023) Subject Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 -- Criticism and interpretation Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Eliot, George, 1819-1880. fast (OCoLC)fst00034497 Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. fast (OCoLC)fst00036958 Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. fast (OCoLC)fst00032376 Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Human beings in literature. Realism in literature. English fiction. French fiction. Human beings in literature. Realism in literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 3031266404 9783031266409

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