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Author_Richard Lehan
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- ISBN 9780299208707
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2005
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this illuminating, comprehensive intellectual and literary history of the major American, British, and Continental novels of realism and naturalism from 1850 to 1950, Richard Lehan offers readers a new way of reading these works - moving outward from the text to forms of historical representation. He argues that literary naturalism is a narrative mode that creates its own reality separate from that of other narrative modes. Employing this strategy allows and encourages intertextuality - one novel talking or responding to another - for example, Zola's Nana to Dreiser's Sister Carrie or Zola's L'Assomoir to Sinclair's The Jungle.
Richard Lehan received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1958. He taught at the University of Texas, Austin, from 1958 to 1962 and at UCLA from 1962 to the present. He won the distinguished teaching award at Texas in 1961 and at UCLA in 1970. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright award, and a President's Fellowship from the University of California. He is the author of seven other books, including The City in Literature (1998), and of many literary essays and reviews.
