Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that....
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Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that. Cover -- NARRATING REALITY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Realism and Its Problems -- 2. Realism and Things -- 3. An Approach to Realist Narratives -- 4. Austen: Narrative, Plots, Distinctions, and Life in the Grain -- 5. Scott: Realism and the Other -- 6. Eliot: Narrating in History -- Afterword -- Appendix: On Tropes and Master Tropes -- Index.
