The Poetics of Poesis: The Making of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction

by Felicia Bonaparte

Examining novels written in nineteenth-century England and throughout most of the West, as well as philosophical essays on the conception of fictional form, Felicia Bonaparte sees the novel in this period not as the continuation of eighteenth-century "realism," as has commonly been assumed, but as a genre unto itself. Determined to address the crises in religion and philosophy that had shattered the foundations by which the past had been sustained,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937329
• ISBN13: 9780813937328
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"