Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869
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Charles III
De La Mole
Dead Man
Die Marquise Von
Don Abbondio
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fictional worlds
Flaubert's Writing
Flaubert’s Writing
Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Grandfather's Collection
Grandfather’s Collection
havisham
house
Iron Gate
Knight Errant
La Chartreuse De Parme
literary geography
Madame De
Manon Lescaut
mansfield
Mansfield Park
Mio Paese
miss
Miss Havisham
narrative theory
nineteenth-century literature
noir
park
Piazza Duomo
promessi
Promessi Sposi
representation and reality
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San Dionigi
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Satis House
Sotherton Court
spatial analysis in novels
spatial representation
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Vice Versa
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781409450559
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a fresh look at the relationship between representation and reality. As Mucignat points out, worlds evoked in fiction all depend to a greater or lesser extent on the world we know from experience, but they are neither parasites on nor copies of those realms. Never fully aligned with the real world, stories grow out of the mismatch between reality and representation-those areas of the fictional space that are not located on actual maps, but still form a fully structured imagined geography. Mucignat offers new readings of six foundational texts of modern Western culture: Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, Stendahl'ss The Red and the Black, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Using these texts as source material and supporting evidence for a new and comprehensive theory of space in fiction, she examines the links between the nineteenth-century novel's interest in creating substantial, life-like worlds and contemporary developments in science, art, and society. Mucignat's book is an evocative analysis of the way novels marshal their technical and stylistic resources to produce imagined geographies so complex and engrossing that they intensify and even transform the reader's experience of real-life places.
Dr Rosa Mucignat is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK.
