Savage reprisals : Bleak house, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks / Gay Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gay, Peter, 1923-2015.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

European fiction.

European fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House.

Dickens, Charles.

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary.

Flaubert, Gustave.

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Buddenrbooks.

Mann, Thomas.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, 2003.

Summary:

"In this compelling work of historical inquiry and literary criticism, the renowned historian Peter Gay examines the knotty relationship between novelists, their novels, and history. Readers often believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for over half a century, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust. Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. In comprehensive, linked essays on three literary masterpieces -- Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks -- Gay shows how the skillful, skeptical reader can meld historical and literary knowledge and turn a novel into an aide to truth. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Prologue: Beyond the Reality Principle

1. The Angry Anarchist: Charles Dickens in Bleak House

2. The Phobic Anatomist: Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary

3. The Mutinous Patrician: Thomas Mann in Buddenbrooks

Epilogue: Truths of Fictions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0393325091

9780393325096

OCLC:

54367570