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Author:

Baker, Geoffrey, 1973-

Title:

Realism's empire : empiricism and enchantment in the nineteenth-century novel / Geoffrey Baker.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

ix, 246 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Realism in literature.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Balzac, Honoré de,--1799-1850--Criticism and interpretation.
Trollope, Anthony,--1815-1882--Criticism and interpretation.
Fontane, Theodor,--1819-1898--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Empiricism and empire : La peau de chagrin -- Marginal realism in Le Père Goriot -- Realism, romance, and La fille aux yeux d'or -- Economies of romance and history in Phineas Finn -- Mapping and unmapping Phineas Finn and Phineas redux -- Global London and the way we live now -- "Berlin wird Weltstadt" : nation, city, and world in Cécile -- The imaginative geography of Effi Briest -- Conclusion : the limits of "realism".

ISBN:

0814291961 (cd-rom)
9780814291962 (cd-rom)
0814210988 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210987 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)310715708

LCCN:

2009007632

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)