Representing Realists in Victorian Literature and Criticism

by Daniel Brown

Book Overview

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term "realism" to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that mid-nineteenth-century critics and writers first used the term reluctantly, with much confusion over what it might actually mean. It did not acquire the ready...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319821520
• ISBN13: 9783319821528
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"