Realist vision / Peter Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Peter, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Realism in literature.

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

French fiction.

Comparative literature--English and French.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--French and English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world "as it is." Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project. Centering each chapter on a single novel or group of paintings, Brooks examines the "invention" of realism beginning with Balzac and Dickens, its apogee in the work of such as Flaubert, Eliot, and Zola, and its continuing force in James and modernists such as Woolf. He considers also the painting of Courbet, Manet, Caillebotte, Tissot, and Lucian Freud, and such recent phenomena as "photorealism" and "reality TV."

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Realism and Representation

Chapter 2. Balzac Invents the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3. Dickens and Nonrepresentation

Chapter 4. Flaubert and the Scandal of Realism

Chapter 5. Courbet's House of Realism

Chapter 6. George Eliot's Delicate Vessels

Chapter 7. Zola's Combustion Chamber

Chapter 8. Unreal City: Paris and London in Balzac, Zola, and Gissing

Chapter 9. Manet, Caillebotte, and Modern Life

Chapter 10. Henry James's Turn of the Novel

Chapter 11. Modernism and Realism: Joyce, Proust, Woolf

Chapter 12. The Future of Reality?

References and Bibliographical Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.

ISBN:

9786611729769

9781281729767

1281729760

9780300127850

0300127855

OCLC:

952731714