Fiction
The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly
A University of Chicago Press study of the Victorian realist novel and its afterlife in modernism. George Levine argues that realism and modernism share a common effort to make language do more than language usually does. The book is dense, argumentative, and free of jargon for the sake of jargon, with the Chicago cover that announces a serious critical study before you read the first page. Chicago kept it in print because it remains a standard answer to the question of what realism was trying to do. Ideal reader: the reader who wants to understand why George Eliot and Virginia Woolf might be in the same conversation, or the novelist suspicious of the realism-versus-experiment divide.
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