Realism and Naturalism

The Novel in an Age of Transition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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In this illuminating, comprehensive intellectual and literary history of the major American, British, and Continental novels of realism and naturalism from 1850 to 1950, Richard Lehan offers readers a new way of reading these works - moving outward from the text to forms of historical representation. He argues that literary naturalism is a narrative mode that creates its own reality separate from that of other narrative modes. Employing this strategy allows and encourages intertextuality - one novel talking or responding to another - for example, Zola's Nana to Dreiser's Sister Carrie or Zola's L'Assomoir to Sinclair's The Jungle.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-06-30
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor346
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299208707

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Richard Lehan received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1958. He taught at the University of Texas, Austin, from 1958 to 1962 and at UCLA from 1962 to the present. He won the distinguished teaching award at Texas in 1961 and at UCLA in 1970. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright award, and a President's Fellowship from the University of California. He is the author of seven other books, including The City in Literature (1998), and of many literary essays and reviews.

It is the most important work in the history of such studies, the culmination of a life's work on the subject by a scholar and a writer well-known in the field of American literature and American Realism and Naturalism."—Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University "Lehan's book is at once an introduction to and interpretation of late nineteenth-century realism and naturalism as a world-wide literary movement with deep roots in the social and intellectual currents of its historical moment. As an introduction, its coverage and analysis are superb and without parallel. No critic I know of possesses Lehan's range of knowledge of the British, American and Continental phases of the movement . . . And few possess his capacity . . . to analyze clearly and incisively often complex and abstract literary, philosophical, and social issues."-Donald Pizer, Tulane University