Satire in an Age of Realism

by Aaron Matz

Book Overview

As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire's directive to castigate the human. Introducing an entirely new way of thinking about realism and the Victorian novel, Aaron Matz refers to the fusion of realism and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521197384
• ISBN13: 9780521197380
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"