Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869

Mucignat, Rosa

ISBN 10: 103292831X / ISBN 13: 9781032928319

Verlag: Routledge, 2024

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dr Rosa Mucignat is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795-1869
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Brand New