Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)
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A01=John Rignall
Alan Fairford
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Bakhtin's Dialogic Model
Bakhtin’s Dialogic Model
Balzac's Fiction
Balzac’s Fiction
Benjamin's Writing
Bird's Eye
Bird’s Eye
bleak
cane
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chagrin
Daniel Deronda
Edward Ashburnham
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Esther's Life
facino
Facino Cane
Fictional Observer
goriot
house
Humbling Irony
illusions
La Peau De Chagrin
Lighted House
Madame De Vionnet
Maria Gostrey
Mrs Dalloway
Nietzsche's Essay
Nineteenth Century Paris
peau
perdues
pere
Poe's Fiction
Poe's Story
Poe’s Story
Spectator Plays
Strolling Spectator
Tableaux De Paris
Uncommercial Traveller
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138801035
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flâneur. The flâneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field, this title will be of particular view to students of realism, literary theory, and comparative literature.
