Realist fiction and the strolling spectator

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Realist fiction and the strolling spectator

John Rignall

Routledge, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

In response to post-structuralist criticism of the classic realist text as an unsophisticated, reactionary form, John Rignall makes the most powerful case yet for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, James, Ford, and Conrad, Rignall argues for a new understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the "flaneur" . The (usually male) "flaneur" was the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist novel. His act of looking implicitly questions the seemingly sovereign gaze and apparent epistemological premises of the realist writer. "Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator" presents a major re-evaluation of realist texts that should be of interest to students and scholars alike.

目次

1.Introduction 2.Benjamin's Flaneur and Poe's "Man of the Crowd" 3.Scott and the spectacle of history 4.Balzac 5. Bleak House 6. L'Education Sentimentale 7.Vision and frame in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda 8. The Ambassadors and The Good Soldier 9. The Secret Agent 10. Modern metamorphoses of the Flaneur.

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