Satire in an Age of Realism

Explores how realism in the nineteenth century became so extreme in its portrayal of human experience that it blurred into satire.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Aaron Matz is Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College, California.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Matz, Aaron (Scripps College Matz, Matz Aaron
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107691230
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69123-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; 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; 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general