Sentiment of Reality - Truth of Feeling in the European Novel

Originally published in 1983, The Sentiment of Reality covers the rise and decline of the realist novel from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

List of contents

1 Introduction Part One Richardson and Sterne: ‘Sentiment as Principle’ and ‘Sentiment as Feeling’ 2 Richardson: Sentiment as Principle 3 Sterne: Sentiment as Feeling Part Two Diderot and Goethe: Quizzical Approaches to Realism 4 Diderot: Fact and Value or ‘Paradox in the Fiction’ 5 Goethe’s Werther: Identification and Judgement Part Three Tolstoy and Dickens: Moral Realism and the Language of Feeling 6 Tolstoy: Truth of Feeling and the ‘Sentiment of Reality’ 7 Dickens: The Fiction of Popular Sentiment Part Four Flaubert, Joyce and Nabokov: The Rejection of Sentiment and the Feeling of Truth 8 Modernist Parody and the Irony of Irony 9 Conclusion

About the author

Michael Bell Department of English, University of Warwick, UK

Summary

Originally published in 1983, The Sentiment of Reality covers the rise and decline of the realist novel from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bell, Michael (Michael Bell Dec''d As Advised By W Bell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2023
• EAN: 9780367610661
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61066-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; History, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism