Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot

by Harry E. Shaw

Book Overview

Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry E. Shaw challenges the denigration of realism that has become a critical orthodoxy in recent decades. Drawing on such thinkers as Erich Auerbach, Jürgen Habermas, and J. L. Austin, Shaw contends that realist novels claim not to replicate the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801436729
• ISBN13: 9780801436727
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher