Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University, UK. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to the present day. He specializes in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen, Routledge, 1986) Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).

• Introduction1 Assembly: Following the Money2 A Private View3 Grotesque Realism: Impropriety and Decorum4 Legislating Reality5 Science: The Force of Vision and the Vision of Force6 Realism Changes Reality7 Naked Propaganda: The Intimate Things of Common Life8 Neorealism: The Real as Resistance9 Politics of Fact

Thomas Docherty’s wide-ranging, spirited account of the role played by a contested aesthetic weaves examples from literature, visual arts, and film ... in admirably clear, accessible language that avoids jargon.

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University, UK. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to the present day. He specializes in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen, Routledge, 1986) Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).

• Introduction1 Assembly: Following the Money2 A Private View3 Grotesque Realism: Impropriety and Decorum4 Legislating Reality5 Science: The Force of Vision and the Vision of Force6 Realism Changes Reality7 Naked Propaganda: The Intimate Things of Common Life8 Neorealism: The Real as Resistance9 Politics of Fact

Thomas Docherty’s wide-ranging, spirited account of the role played by a contested aesthetic weaves examples from literature, visual arts, and film ... in admirably clear, accessible language that avoids jargon.

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University, UK. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to the present day. He specializes in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen, Routledge, 1986) Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).

• Introduction1 Assembly: Following the Money2 A Private View3 Grotesque Realism: Impropriety and Decorum4 Legislating Reality5 Science: The Force of Vision and the Vision of Force6 Realism Changes Reality7 Naked Propaganda: The Intimate Things of Common Life8 Neorealism: The Real as Resistance9 Politics of Fact

Thomas Docherty’s wide-ranging, spirited account of the role played by a contested aesthetic weaves examples from literature, visual arts, and film ... in admirably clear, accessible language that avoids jargon.