Realism and Naturalism: The Novel in an Age of Transition

by Richard Lehan

Lehan's book provides readers with an illuminating and readable comprehensive intellectual and literary history of the major American, British, and Continental novels of Realism and Naturalism from 1850 to 1950. He offers readers a new way of reading these novels-working outward from the text to forms of historical representation. In this way, literary naturalism can be seen as a narrative mode that creates its own reality separate from that of other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299208745
• ISBN13: 9780299208745
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"