Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism

by Pam Morris

Book Overview

Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. 'Things' in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474419135
• ISBN13: 9781474419130
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"