Satire in an Age of Realism

Informationen zum Autor Aaron Matz is Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College, California. Klappentext Explores how realism in the nineteenth century became so extreme in its portrayal of human experience that it blurred into satire. Zusammenfassung Examines how realism in the nineteenth-century novel became so extreme in its portrayal of human experience that it blurred into satire. Close study of the novels of Eliot! Hardy! Gissing! and Conrad! and the theater of Ibsen! reveals how Victorian realism's transfiguration into satire ultimately led to its demise. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Augustan satire and Victorian realism; 2. Terminal satire and Jude the Obscure; 3. George Gissing's ambivalent realism; 4. The English critics and the Norwegian satirist; 5. Truth and caricature in The Secret Agent; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Matz, Aaron (Scripps College Matz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521197380
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19738-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies