Thackeray and the Problem of Realism

By A. Savkar Altinel

Although it is traditional to see a certain kind of realism as the essence of fiction, in practice novels of course offer not a simple reproduction of experience but a throughgoing organization of it. The novel is, after all, a bourgeois genre and it reflects that bourgeois view of life according to which the world is there merely to be dominated and controlled by man. This study examines both Thackeray's early fiction, in which both the novel form and the manipulative society to which it belongs are attacked, and his later works, in which they are defended, and tries to determine the reasons for this change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3820483322
• ISBN13: 9783820483321
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 181 Pages