TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Harry E.
TI  - Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot 
SN  - 9781501718212
AV  - PR868.R4 S53 1999eb
U1  - 823/.70912 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Technique
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - History
KW  - Realism in literature
KW  - Reality in literature
KW  - England
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Realism and Its Problems --; 2. Realism and Things --; 3. An Approach to Realist Narratives --; 4. Austen: Narrative, Plots, Distinctions, and Life in the Grain --; 5. Scott: Realism and the Other --; 6. Eliot: Narrating in History --; Afterword --; Appendix: On Tropes and Master Tropes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades. Drawing on such thinkers as Erich Auerbach, Jürgen Habermas, and J. L. Austin, Shaw contends that realist novels claim not to replicate the world in their pages or to offer transparent access to it, but to involve readers in a process of narrative understanding adequate to grasping the complexities of life in history. Seen in this light, the works of such novelists as Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and George Eliot, as they depict their own and other cultures and strive to imagine regions of freedom in the dense and constricting web of history, gain a new interest
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718212
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501718212
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ER  -