Thackeray and the Problem of Realism
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
European University Studies
ISBN-10
3820483322
ISBN-13
9783820483321
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Imprint
Peter Lang GmbH
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 1986
Print length
181 Pages
Weight
236 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 20.90 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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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.
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.
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