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By John Rignall

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ISBN-13: 9781138801035

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ISBN-13: 9781138801042

The vintage realist textual content has lengthy been derided by means of post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary shape. during this examine, first released in 1992, John Rignall makes a strong case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive style. utilizing the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an realizing of realism in the course of the recurrent determine of the flâneur. The flâneur is the walking spectator whose complex imaginative and prescient either one of and within the novel makes him the consultant determine of the realist textual content. an important contribution to the sphere, this name should be of specific view to scholars of realism, literary concept, and comparative literature.

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