Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form

by Christopher Laing Hill

Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about "world literature" by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill follows naturalism's emergence in France and circulation around the world from North and South America to East Asia. His analysis shows that transnational literary studies must operate on multiple...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810142155
• ISBN13: 9780810142152
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"