The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly

by George Lewis Levine

Book Overview

In The Realistic Imagination , George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226475514
• ISBN13: 9780226475516
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"